Grass vs. Turf

[Zaimejs]

I have noticed over the years that whenever we play a team on a grass field, we look really sluggish... someone mentioned that against Mizzou, it was like our defenders were moving in slow motion.

Has anyone else noticed this? It scares me when we play on a grass field. It always feels like we can't quite get the timing down. In the MU game, it seemed that ZT held onto the ball just a second to long... perhaps waiting for receivers to run their routs. Our rushing was awful... and the defenders seemed slow.

At first I thought they were all just drunk or something, but now I'm thinking about grass.

 

[mcrooks7]

Haha. Right. Not drunk, right. Just high on grass? Well, I am not an expert on this, but it seems to me that there was a lot more there than just grass playing fields. Perhaps not. Yet, I think our boys should be ready to simply deal with any environment. Until we do that, we still aren't a great team again.

 

[HuskerInKC16]

First off, Mizzou's field is field turf just like ours. Can you tell me the last time we actually played on grass? A lot of the teams in the Big 12 used to have astro turf, including us, but have since switched to the popular field turf. This includes KU, K-State, Colorado, Mizzou, Nebraska, OK State. Texas Tech is one of the few teams left in college football to still have astro turf. I don't think you can raise an argument on this unless you can tell us the last time Nebraska played on real grass.

 

[BigRedDallasTexan]

It was Brad Smith that made our defense look slow not the turf.