Last Nights' Bowls Reveals Potential X-factors?
by PodKATT on Dec 29, 2009 10:50 PM CST
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PrintSo after last nights disaster at Xavier, I'm watching the Champs Sports Bowl (at the Citrus bowl stadium) and then something you never want to see happens, a back trips up on some loose turf and gets hurt, having to be carried off the field. I don't think much of it and keep watching, but as the game goes on, I start to notice more and more chunks of turf laying on the field and lots of dirt coming up when the ground is impacted or when a runner digs in. It gets so bad that the announcers pick up on it and reveal that it's new sod that doesn't seem to have taken. It looks just terrible, like it's mushy, but not wet, kinda like oak moss. Forecast shows a little rain between now and kickoff. Might just be paranoia, but there's not much the grounds crew can do besides repaint it before then. Could effect our speed.
And the great petri dish that the EagleBank Bowl was supposed to be wasn't. Playing on what was basically green ice at the old RFK, Temple was doing fine till their best player got hurt, then got bad breaks when a UCLA player slipped into an INT and an icy ball got snapped out of the endzone. As mildly entertaining as it was, we learn nothing due to Temple's sheer bad luck.
Oh, and I take back every bad word I ever said about the Indy bowl. RFK is a freaking dump.
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It would be bad if it affected our speed
worse if someone else got hurt. That’s what I’d be worried about. When they said on the broadcast that this field has been used to play high school games recently, and when I realized it going to be used again in just 3 days, I was not happy at all. No field is going to stay in good shape if it’s used that frequently, and a bad field is not just sloppy. It’s dangerous.
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by Richard Pittman on Dec 30, 2009 7:49 AM CST reply actions
Absolutely.
I noticed it too and was not happy either. It’s what killed the Steelers’ field a few years ago when that punt stopped cold in the ground. Overuse + Rainfall = Disaster. 50% chance of thunderstorms the night before the game.
It’s not the effect it will have on speed, it’s the effect it will have on cutbacks on runs, o-line blocking, and footing for kickers.
The field
Holy crap, that thing was awful. It was coming up in clumps. I’m with Pittman, I’m worried about safety at this point.
And don’t knock RFK… you can make the bleachers visibly shake.
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The refs for the Miami-Wisconsin game
are the SEC refs that were suspended. I only know that because one of them looks like Laurence Fishburne.
The guys at Bruin Nation are *way* too excited about this DC bowl win
It’s almost embarrassing to watch. One of them has a lengthy post explaining, in all seriousness, that going to DC for the Eagle Bank Bowl was the best thing that could have happened for UCLA and how it’s clearly the best bowl choice other than the Rose Bowl.
There’s just a little bit of a double standard between their fawning over Neiheisel’s 6-6 squads and their repeated demands for Dorrell’s head after finishing 6-6.
by 4.0 Point Stance on Dec 30, 2009 10:10 AM CST reply actions
give'm some pudding for me
I still think Temple was the better team in that game. If not for some very unlucky events in the last few minutes, the Fightin’ Cosbies would’ve had it.
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Injuries
UCLA was outclassed and won only when Temple suffered a devastating injury. Congrats, Bruins. You beat Temple.
I can’t imagine a person in sports I hate more than Neuheisel.
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Agreed
On the bright side, he’s going bald
by 4.0 Point Stance on Dec 30, 2009 12:05 PM CST up reply actions
Also, I noticed Miami using sideline heaters in 45 degree weather.
That would get your team mocked incessantly in the Big Ten. I hope LSU is more manly than that.
Didja see any of the shots of their fans?
They looked like members of Shackleton’s expedition.
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by ReadingRambler on Dec 30, 2009 6:44 PM CST up reply actions
Obscure war references carry over?
Sorry, LSU fans.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 30, 2009 11:14 PM CST up reply actions
I was wondering
If I was the only one who noticed the field.
You’d think the bowl organization would have some liability there for potential injuries.
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