about ND grass....

[mcity]

can everybody quit talking about the grass.....or is it just another item used to downplay what ND did yesterday?

How is it that a fast team on thick grass becomes slow yet the already slower team in people's eyes benefits? Wouldn't the already slower team also become slower kind of "washing" out the advantage? They both played on the same field....if that field took a couple of 10th's of a second off of USC's players, it did the same to ND's players......I've been in that stadium 50 times in the past 10 years....I was there friday night and the grass looked as it always does.....it may be thicker than some across the country, but truth be told, it has always been like that.....to say it helped ND and hurt SC is weak in my eyes. :mj07:

 

[INtheBLUE]

So you dont think that they let the grass grow longer on purpose to help even out the speed? What about the 12 hour watering job before the game? (Its not like the grass was dying. Looked pretty healthy to me.) Again done for no reason?

I'm not saying the grass thing or the watering thing actually made a difference, but dont you think that might have been the intention?

If it was the intention, I actually thought it was a pretty good coaching decision!!

If it wasn't the intention, you'd think a prestigious school could afford some cheap landscaping labor. Maybe if they hadn't spent the money on the pre-game drowning, they could have afforded a new John Deere or something. Geez!!

 

[Bombs]

Not cutting the grass has been taking place since football began, and Notre Dame is not the first school to have done it. Still, it is unbelievably lame. You either have the team to win the game, or you don't. You don't grow the grass US Open style to win it that way.

 

[mcity]

So you dont think that they let the grass grow longer on purpose to help even out the speed? What about the 12 hour watering job before the game? (Its not like the grass was dying. Looked pretty healthy to me.) Again done for no reason?

I'm not saying the grass thing or the watering thing actually made a difference, but dont you think that might have been the intention?

If it was the intention, I actually thought it was a pretty good coaching decision!!

If it wasn't the intention, you'd think a prestigious school could afford some cheap landscaping labor. Maybe if they hadn't spent the money on the pre-game drowning, they could have afforded a new John Deere or something. Geez!!

I'm just saying I don't understand how you can say it levels or evens up the speed when ND (who is supposedly much slower than USC) was running on the same field? If it made USC slower, it made ND slower too.......so if they are both slower aren't they right back where they started....USC still being faster? The grass didn't look much different than normal to me.....I went to the purdue/ND game 3 weeks ago and their grass looked the same as ND's did this weekend....the grass at ND is always thick but it wasn't like it was seeding itself or something.

 

[DIRTY Diapers]

Who cares about the grass... The game is over. I almost puked after the game.

 

[mcity]

Who cares about the grass... The game is over. I almost puked after the game.

I agree, that's why I'm tired of people making it out to be something it isn't......trying to use it as an excuse as to why ND went toe to toe with SC....the grass should be a moot point.....they both played on the same field, end of.