Bryant-Denny turf
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The grass looks like hell at the far edges, away from the playing surface, with bare spots and dirt showing through. It's pretty apparent it is real grass, but yes it did look pretty good where it counted.
Like cbi said, it's natural grass. You could really see bad spots near the fencing, but it always does that in the off season.
Definitely grass ... we were on the field after the scrimmage. But even up close, it looked like turf in places. The end zones were pretty rough, but the paint probably covered that up on the TV.
I believe they replace it at least yearly if not more. They were also working on the practice field a couple of weeks ago. I think they replaced the turf there as well. I am not sure, but I think the grass comes from Foley.
I'm pretty sure you are correct on replacing the grass every year but I'm no expert. It has its rough stages no matter what. It's nothing to worry about in my mind, but it did look rough by the fence during A-Day. I'm surprised our "competitors" didn't bring it up to recruits:biggrin:
The "turf" is a type of bermuda grass. Bermuda is just coming out of dormancy in april, especially with as cool a spring as we've had. The green present at A day is a ryegrass. The reason it looks bad around the edges is they didn't get good ryegrass seed coverage there and the bermuda is still dormant/well worn. I didn't realize they replaced the sod yearly, but that would make sense with the budget they have to work with. At a lot of fields they treat/kill the ryegrass around april to let the bermuda start it's green up.
Tif 419 Bermuda. Fans are used to help the airflow in the endzones. Much like for golf greens. Transition Blend seed is used which is better than rye.
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