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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Hawkinole on November 14, 2020, 01:29:50 AM
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How will field turf work when it is below 32F? The Gophers have an underground heating system that was installed for the NFL to play there. No one else has it in the Big Ten.
I am thinking if we get rain and frozen tundra, it will not be good for players, or for the turf.
How damaging will it be for each account? Opinions?
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Play in the mud/blood - that's where the game has it's roots
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Osborne as AD installed the first Fieldturf for college football in 1999
plenty of games played on it in subfreezing conditions
I'd say it's better than grass in cold temps
no problem
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I am pretty sure the rubber they use has a glass transition well below the coldest days in Minnesota. I think anyway.
That would be a factor, but probably isn't. Now, if you have freezing rain that doesn't drain and freezes on the turf, that might be worse than grass for traction. When we get freezing rain, it shuts everything down, good luck even walking to your car.
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all decent football fields should have good drainage systems
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I don't think any decent field could not have a good drainage system, maybe not in Las Vegas?
Freezing rain wouldn't drain of course.
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the Vikings put the heating coils in (TCF field) after they played on the turf when it was cold and had a couple concussions from hitting the turf when it was just cold. harder than cement if I remember correctly form the comments
so not sure how drainage is a factor when it is just plain cold in the upper midwest in November and December?
as far as the affects on the grass at stadiums with grass? i am sure by next Fall the grounds department will be able to get it back to great playing condition
there might be several hard surface or icy conditions attributed to the fields.
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won't bother real football players
a Tall
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I am fairly certain that the heating coils were removed after the Vikings left and the turf was replaced.
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Normally college football isn't played in winter, at least not on campus.
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^Yeah, that's the trick: the New Brickhouse was never intended to be used for games after Thanksgiving weekend.
In the 11 seasons the place has been open, 4 of those seasons have had games after that threshold. (Vikings-Bears the week after the roof of the Metrodome fell in, two years of Vikings while the Viking Ship is being built, and now this)
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I am fairly certain that the heating coils were removed after the Vikings left and the turf was replaced.
you would know better than I but, this seems unreasonable as hell
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I just checked with someone who should know, and I can say with a high confidence that the heating coils are in fact still in and are used at TCF stadium. this will give all players on that field a better experience than playing on a hard turf or grass surface when temps get to sub 32
it will be interesting if other fields get a game day on a Alberta clipper day or deep freeze
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I read that Brett Favre played his last game at Gopher stadium, after the Dome roof collapsed from a heavy snow, and sustained a concussion when his head slammed into the frozen field turf. There is an element of danger associated with a frozen field. I don't know if it is any greater than with a frozen natural grass field. This is why I started this thread is to learn what others might know.
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checking a few NFL stadiums, it seems most have heating systems. Gillette field has heat under field turf
I can't find anything on heating systems for New York or Buffalo
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How does it account for the turf monster?
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I assume the frozen turf monster is even more diabolical