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NapoleonDynamite

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Oh crap. The Indian burial mound has been disturbed...

Get ready for more wind-deflected FG's, star RB's tripping over 1st down chains and
tearing ACL's and another Tech-and-10 season. I knew it couldn't last...



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drt7891

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We didn't when they redid Dudy Noble. Why they didn't, I have no idea why. Anyone know?
 
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<span id="title">HOME FIELD IMPROVEMENT</span> — Workers improve
drainage <span style="font-weight: bold;">and will lay new sod </span>at Davis Wade Stadium's Scott Field in
MSU's effort to provide the best possible playing surface. This is just
one of the renovation and construction projects planned for athletic
facilities improvement over the next few years.
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><font size="4">New turf it looks like.</font>
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drt7891

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Scott field had it as well as Dudy Noble before they resodded it a few years ago. The new turf at Dudy Noble is Georgia grass (so I heard, anyway). MSU's turf is at the Rose Bowl, a few MLB and NFL stadiums... and I think a few SEC fields, as well.
 
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drt7891

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and not buying anything there. Our people engineered a premium turf and is a point of pride for our university... but because it's expensive and other stuff works "just as well," we don't use it on our own fields.
 
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LightninInside said:
No reason to use it if the other stuff works almost as well.
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Could we not afford to use our own product...

If that is seriously true, I don't even know what to say
 
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weblow

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BriantheDawg said:
The infield looked the worse I've ever seen it look. Sam Frost must have grown it.
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It was probably him repeatedly spiking the ball into the turf that caused it to die while trying to make a throw to 3rd.
 
vhdawg

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Is the first Bully still buried under the 50-yard-line?
 
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gravedigger

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hospital area. Hiwassee Drive. Aint telling you which lot, but it's there.

Until we start playing games in the area I played kick the can as a kid, we dont have to worry about disturbing anything.

It's already been disturbed. About 1975 to be exact.
 
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DAWG101

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Bully not there anymore, think he got moved several years ago when this was done before.

Not msu sod, money is a factor
 
HumpDawgy

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Good God please straighten out the field. My OCD is kicking in here.
 
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MS Choice was the thurf on the field and it is a great turfgrass. The problem is that the rights to the grass east of the Mississippi river belong to the MS Sod Producers and they dont grow the grass and never pushed it. West of the Mississippi West Coast Turf holds the rights and they cant grow it fast enough outh there. They sell it under the name Bullseye Bermudagrass. Our issue is shipping it is being grown in Californa and Arizona and the shipping is killing us. So we are going to sod the field with 419 bermuda. It sucks but it is what it is.
 
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I work for a fairly large industrial manufacturer, and the thought of one of our procurement managers saying that they couldn't afford a hose or motor from one of our own plants might be enough to get someone fired.

Now, if playing surfaces aren't necessarily our area of expertise, that's one thing... but it is downright embarrassing if we can't use our own turf because it's too expensive. With the decades of research that I'm sure have already taken place, we should be beyond prototype stage

edited to add: Just read coursesuper's post for the first time, so now it at least makes a little more sense. Still a crying shame, but now I get it
 
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eurekadawg

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There is a sod farm in maben that sells certified Mississippi express. It's about 20% higher than 419. I don't think money was the reason for going 419. The field is sand based so they were looking for sod grown on a sand base. Which is next to impossible to find.
 
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drofdirt

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Even though we developed MS Choice here at MSU, it is not a good turf grass for use at Scott Field. Reason for this is simple. Too much susceptibility to disease in our climatic regime. Cost to apply fungicides to control the disease, plus the labor to apply it, are prohibitive. MS Choice does extremely well in the southwest US and California, but doesn't grow well here, especially under the management regime that must be used at Scott Field. Keep in mind that throughout 2/3 of the football season, the field is over-seeded with ryegrass anyway, and that too impacts the ability of MS Choice to grow and look aesthetically pleasing to the fans and the TV audience. The old standby "419" bermudagrass is much easier and less costly to manage, and when grown properly, is probably as pleasing to the eye as MS Choice.
 
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