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Post by eacnut on Jan 20, 2020 18:30:02 GMT -5
It is the Athletic Director to see and maintain the entire athletic department and budget.The Athletic Director should have maintaining all athletic field in his budget each and every year. Stop putting that blame on Chancellor Martin. Our Athletic Director needs to just do a better job in logistics and maintenance maintaining athletic supplies.
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Post by Maxell on Jan 20, 2020 21:15:07 GMT -5
It is the Athletic Director to see and maintain the entire athletic department and budget.The Athletic Director should have maintaining all athletic field in his budget each and every year. Stop putting that blame on Chancellor Martin. Our Athletic Director needs to just do a better job in logistics and maintenance maintaining athletic supplies. The Facilities Department maintains the field.
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 21, 2020 0:02:54 GMT -5
They may maintain it but I bet they can't make the final call of putting the money out to get turf.
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 21, 2020 0:25:38 GMT -5
BT my visions and standards are just as high as yours and the other 6 people who want turf.
Don't get me wrong, I know that a well maintained green field looks good on tv and in person. Nothing wrong with dat.
I just think that studies have shown that turf, cement and any kind of field besides real grass is more detrimental to the players safety and welfare.
We are getting tremendous notice around the country with our brown grass. Look at all of the transfers that are coming to our program from big a$$ programs with green well maintained fields and great facilities.
We are getting great notice from non athletic students as well because of our football team success playing on Brown grass. I think we had approximately 25,000 freshmen to apply for admittance to our school.
I don't know if Coach Broadway or Coach Washington has ever complained to the A D or Chancellor about playing on brown grass. Evidently they were/are satisfied with the field because we don't have turf.
BT just because I don't agree with your thinking does not make me have low standards. Mine or just as high or better than yours because I am an Aggie.
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 21, 2020 10:29:14 GMT -5
Missed opportunity.
The field drainage system was designed by former A&T rb Maurice Smith. Prior to that any rain and the field was a swamp. I remember we lost to Lane College 12-4 one year because the field was a swamp and they were more used to playing in crap field conditions than we were.
Mo saw the opportunity and we all benefited.
I remember back in '90 when my parents dropped me off as a freshman the campus was covered with straw that covered grass seed. Just simply couldn't seem to grow any grass. My mother commented on how ugly it looked and how much better SC Steat looked.
Sinbad performed a comedy show that year around homecoming. His FIRST joke was "how can an agricultural school not grow grass?"
Optics matter bigly whether you can dig up a few alternative examples or not. I'm just glad we fixed the campus grass problem.
To me the issue isn't turf or grass, the issue is utilizing our agriculture dept. to create opportunities for our students to create a new grass that withstands the weather and abuse a football team can put on a field during half a year. It's a potential educational opportunity and potential income stream if we get it right. Or even if we get it wrong because each time we get it wrong we're crossing one wrong one off the list and moving in the right direction. I see no doubters addressing that very pertinent issue.
A lot of our players are PE majors. They could be athletic turf engineering majors if we actually bothered to create the major, and they would be marketable about three seconds after graduation. They play on the stuff. They would be able to give valuable insight to what works and what doesn't. They would be in very high demand if we seized the opportunity.
IMO the argument shouldn't have a thing to do with turf. What business does an agricultural school have with a turf playing field? The root of the problem (see what I did there, lol) is our failure to use our advantages as a agricultural school to fix the problem and position ourselves on a higher plane.
I don't believe this issue is for Chancellor Martin. Not to be callous but why does he care about a field unless somebody dies or is sexually harassed on it? The opportunity should be proposed to the Dean of the Ag department. I suspect his (or her) eyes would light up with the prospect of a potential new major, grant and research monies, and an influx of students into his department.
This is a case where so far, Aggies haven't.
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Post by Maxell on Jan 21, 2020 11:42:36 GMT -5
Are were really an agricultural school? I remember that straw all over campus. LOL
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 21, 2020 11:50:19 GMT -5
People (Howard folk mainly) used to clown me for attending a "farm school." My response was simple. "You eat food, don't you?" Combine that with a shrug of the shoulders and there is no comeback.
We were founded as the agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. We've been overly interested in betraying the ag roots in order to be engineers and businessmen. Turf vs. grass.
We got to get back to the roots. We got to put our hands in the soil. We got to have green green grass that can withstand large men running and rasslin on it six months of a year in several climate changes.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jan 21, 2020 13:37:16 GMT -5
I was a horticulture major my first year at T. My father graduated from T with a degree in Agriculture.
It’s really not this difficult....the science / technology exist to have green grass in November and March
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 21, 2020 16:34:21 GMT -5
This is how our grass currently looks: I dont care what month we are in, our grass should never look like this.
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Post by popdad on Jan 21, 2020 16:53:26 GMT -5
If you can remember the very first home game of this season, and the next two or three after that and how nice the field looked, that alone should tell you how well taken care of this field is. Being the type of grass that it is, you have to expect to see it change as it gets colder. Nothing wrong with the grass or how it looks (it’s expected), what we should be looking at is the overall appearance of the stadium with those rusty azz railings and bleachers.
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Post by bluehaze on Jan 21, 2020 18:56:23 GMT -5
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 21, 2020 19:33:14 GMT -5
Is it even safe to train on that field in the current condition it is in? I would hate for one of our guys to get sucked into a dirt pit like Boba Fett.
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Post by eacnut on Jan 22, 2020 4:10:31 GMT -5
So A&T Agricultural Department is hosting a Hemp Conference for small farmers which is great. But they can't get a team together to help our football field grass problems.
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Post by saabman on Jan 22, 2020 4:20:29 GMT -5
Is it even safe to train on that field in the current condition it is in? I would hate for one of our guys to get sucked into a dirt pit like Boba Fett. Hale Thriller we trained on a field back in the early seventies we practice on a field that had more weeds dirt and holes then grass lol. They will be ok as the saying goes " what doesn't kill you will only make you better" lol . They can't be that soft .
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 22, 2020 7:17:06 GMT -5
So A&T Agricultural Department is hosting a Hemp Conference for small farmers which is great. But they can't get a team together to help our football field grass problems. It just hasn't been anything close to a priority obviously. And I see no point in putting a proposal or a presentation together to push it because the last one thrilla and I did,... suffice it to say they listened to us and then never really acted on it.
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