Coughlin Capacity

[Jack4Life]

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Sexauer field has a condition?

Whatever condition it is, I think it's terminal.

Man, that must've been a cramped football stadium...

Guess I haven't even noticed, is it still there?

[RowdyRabbit]

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What is this round up incident everyone keeps talking about?

[Nidaros]

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What is this round up incident everyone keeps talking about?

A few years back some idiots from that Lutheran school in Sioux Falls put an AC in at the 50 yard line with Roundup or did something else happen?

[RowdyRabbit]

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A few years back some idiots from that Lutheran school in Sioux Falls put an AC in at the 50 yard line with Roundup or did something else happen?

Huh...I had never heard about that. Maybe it was before I moved back to Brookings and started attending Jackrabbit Feetsball games again.

[HoboD]

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Actually, the grounds crew accidentally applied Roundup to the entire field believing it was instead fertilizer. Pretty embarrassing for a school with large ag department.

[SD-STATE]

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A few years back some idiots from that Lutheran school in Sioux Falls put an AC in at the 50 yard line with Roundup or did something else happen?

That certainly happened, but the round-up incident comes from, probably 5-6 years ago when our grounds crew sprayed the field for weeds I assume, but failed to rinse a tank that had contained round-up. That happened about two-weeks before the hobo day game that year. We played UND that year I beleive. We had a full stadium and the whole field was dead-brown. There are some areial pictures floating around of a packed CAS and the worst looking field ever in college football. I remember Dr. Oien not being very happy about it.

That incident and the condition of the field most years, makes me believe that Field-turf is the best way to go for our playing surface, especially with the fact that it is shared with another team. It simply has not been proven that the field can be taken care of properly, so let's take living grass out of the equation.

As for the Track & Field situation, using BHS's facility is hardly ideal for a D-I program. They should be on campus, where they can use the facility as they wish. I'm not sure if SDSU helped money wise with BHS's new track, but if they did I think that money would be better served to be saved for a long term solution rather than a short term solution.

[SD-STATE]

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HoboD beat me to it.

[Jacks-02]

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Doesn't field turf need to be replaced every 10 years or so? Don't we have alot bigger issues on campus than this grass/turf debate? Like worrying about the west grandstands falling down maybe?

[Jacks#1Fan]

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As for the Track & Field situation, using BHS's facility is hardly ideal for a D-I program. They should be on campus, where they can use the facility as they wish. I'm not sure if SDSU helped money wise with BHS's new track, but if they did I think that money would be better served to be saved for a long term solution rather than a short term solution.

Let's get a couple of items clear...use of the BHS outdoor facility (very nice for a high school facility) is not a major item in the BHS/Football use of Coughlin. It IS a good opportunity for us to have maybe one outdoor track meet for SDSU here (in D-1, the home track meets are archaic). BHS, however, did share in cost of the lights at Coughlin, making night games possible, which has helped SDSU attendance greatly.

Second, there will not be an outdoor track, ever, at SDSU. The plan will be to have a 300-meter indoor track as a part of the fieldhouse, which will be built north of the Dykhouse Student Athlete Center. That is our most urgent facility need, by far IMHO. CAS will continue to hold 16,000+ for games and serve us well until we can build a new stadium, but a fieldhouse in the next few years will build us a recruiting tool that puts us on a par with our competition.

As far as grass vs field turf (I admit I prefer grass), there will be just 10 football games played at CAS over a 10-week period this year, for goodness sakes.

[JimmyJack]

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As far as grass vs field turf (I admit I prefer grass), there will be just 10 football games played at CAS over a 10-week period this year, for goodness sakes.

As I was reading through this thread, I was thinking that exact same thing. Seriously. This field can handle the traffic it gets.

[zooropa]

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As I was reading through this thread, I was thinking that exact same thing. Seriously. This field can handle the traffic it gets.

maybe different grass?

[SUPERBUNNY]

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All this fuss as a result of one game years ago that we aren't even supposed to mention again anyway. The mud was a factor but wasn't the major reason. The team moved forward from that. Maybe we should do the same.

GB, GB, GJ!

SUPERBUNNY

[JACKGUYII]

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As I was reading through this thread, I was thinking that exact same thing. Seriously. This field can handle the traffic it gets.

The field should be able to handle the traffic, but it isn't most likely because it isn't being properly cared for. If CAS is going to have a grass field and multiple tenants than somone who truly understands how to care for an athletic field needs to be engaged. I assume there is not a tarp that could be placed on the field during inclimate weather? It will be interesting to see how the field looks for the NDSU game. I know there are many traditionalist on the board, but my guess is most of the players would prefer field turf which is what they primarily play on when on the road.

[SD-STATE]

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Let's get a couple of items clear...use of the BHS outdoor facility (very nice for a high school facility) is not a major item in the BHS/Football use of Coughlin. It IS a good opportunity for us to have maybe one outdoor track meet for SDSU here (in D-1, the home track meets are archaic). BHS, however, did share in cost of the lights at Coughlin, making night games possible, which has helped SDSU attendance greatly.

Second, there will not be an outdoor track, ever, at SDSU. The plan will be to have a 300-meter indoor track as a part of the fieldhouse, which will be built north of the Dykhouse Student Athlete Center. That is our most urgent facility need, by far IMHO. CAS will continue to hold 16,000+ for games and serve us well until we can build a new stadium, but a fieldhouse in the next few years will build us a recruiting tool that puts us on a par with our competition.

As far as grass vs field turf (I admit I prefer grass), there will be just 10 football games played at CAS over a 10-week period this year, for goodness sakes.

Very much agreed on the issue of facility priorities.

Not going to beat a dead horse with the BHS/SDSU arrangments.

A major point here is that many people argue that Turf is unecessary given the relatively few games that are played on it in a given season, yet the field continues to look as if there is twice the usage. With so few games played on it... it should look better than it does. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks the field looks pretty rough already and it's early in the season. Continuing the history of a shoddy looking field. Obviously replacing the playing surface should be low on the list of priorities, but hey... I thought we were throwing out ideas on what we each would like to see someday.

[zooropa]

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Was thinking about the whole maintenance issue.....

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html

To the best of my knowledge there are no natural grass fields FCS/FBS in that zone--Montana State most recently having gone to Fieldturf.

Now, granted, some of that is due to soil quality (note the dividing line @ the Minnesota River), but keeping grass at Coughlin requires some doing. I wonder about incorporating some fieldturf with the grass as they did at Lambeau.

Lambeau field is also heated. Seems hard to believe that kind of an extravagance would ever pass muster at SDSU.