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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is spending a lot of money on grass this season.

UNC’s football team is practicing on the game field inside Kenan Stadium while the practice facility is renovated, so the school has to re-sod the field before most home games.

"A lot of people ask us, 'Are we crazy? Are we going to take a field out on Wednesday night and play on it on Saturday?'” UNC’s turf manager Casey Carrick said.

That is exactly what the school's turf experts are doing, with a little help from Charlotte-based Carolina Green, a company in the business of growing turf.

"It's very heavy sod and it's root-bound,” Chad Price , owner of Carolina Green, said. “It's grown on plastic. All the roots grow amongst themselves really tight."
 
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The Franchise said:
They wasted a week getting that new turf down. That’s a week it could have been taking root.[/QUOTE

I thought they would have pulled up the old turf Sunday night after the game. They could have prepared the dirt overnight and had the new turf in on Monday. It wasn't a surprise to anyone that we needed new sod.
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Normally ripping up the field is a one-day job. That day previously has been Monday. Laying down new sod has usually been on a Wednesday. Last week they got it down on a Tuesday because there was a game on Saturday.
 
Think it through.

Which team gets the shorter end of the stick?

Not the canes.

The Dolphins get to play on the field after we’ve chewed it up. Dolphins fans are the ones that should be ****ed more than us.

We don’t know what the deal is behind the scenes. They may be stuck contractually with a subpar vendor. Or for whatever logistical reasons the field couldn’t be rolled out until today. I don’t pretend to be a turf expert, so I don’t know exactly what their options are, but my guess is that right now, in season, their options are very limited.

It could be that this is the wrong turf for the current conditions of heavy rain and limited sonlight and that they didn’t anticipate this rainfall pattern based on last year, when the turf was fine. It could be it’s a shītty vendor/sub-contractor. It could be that the base or the area underneath the sod needs better drainage or somehow needs to be different. I don’t really know and can only speculate.

Having said that, it’s a bottom line world, and somebody done fūcked up, whoever is responsible has to be accountable. Not that familiar with the phins org structure but the buck should stop at the CEO/President and Ross. They need to figure out a temporary solution for this season (hopefully this rollout takes root and stays healthy) and a more sustainable one after the season.
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Think it through.

Which team gets the shorter end of the stick?

Not the canes.

The Dolphins get to play on the field after we’ve chewed it up. Dolphins fans are the ones that should be ****ed more than us.

We don’t know what the deal is behind the scenes. They may be stuck contractually with a subpar vendor. Or for whatever logistical reasons the field couldn’t be rolled out until today. I don’t pretend to be a turf expert, so I don’t know exactly what their options are, but my guess is that right now, in season, their options are very limited.

It could be that this is the wrong turf for the current conditions of heavy rain and limited sonlight and that they didn’t anticipate this rainfall pattern based on last year, when the turf was fine. It could be it’s a shītty vendor/sub-contractor. It could be that the base or the area underneath the sod needs better drainage or somehow needs to be different. I don’t really know and can only speculate.

Having said that, it’s a bottom line world, and somebody done fūcked up, whoever is responsible has to be accountable. Not that familiar with the phins org structure but the buck should stop at the CEO/President and Ross. They need to figure out a temporary solution for this season (hopefully this rollout takes root and stays healthy) and a more sustainable one after the season.
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The Dolphins board is complaining big time about us messing up the field and asking when we're getting our own stadium and how many other NFL teams have to play after a college team has torn up their field
 
duke4heisman said:
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Think it through.

Which team gets the shorter end of the stick?

Not the canes.

The Dolphins get to play on the field after we’ve chewed it up. Dolphins fans are the ones that should be ****ed more than us.

We don’t know what the deal is behind the scenes. They may be stuck contractually with a subpar vendor. Or for whatever logistical reasons the field couldn’t be rolled out until today. I don’t pretend to be a turf expert, so I don’t know exactly what their options are, but my guess is that right now, in season, their options are very limited.

It could be that this is the wrong turf for the current conditions of heavy rain and limited sonlight and that they didn’t anticipate this rainfall pattern based on last year, when the turf was fine. It could be it’s a shītty vendor/sub-contractor. It could be that the base or the area underneath the sod needs better drainage or somehow needs to be different. I don’t really know and can only speculate.

Having said that, it’s a bottom line world, and somebody done fūcked up, whoever is responsible has to be accountable. Not that familiar with the phins org structure but the buck should stop at the CEO/President and Ross. They need to figure out a temporary solution for this season (hopefully this rollout takes root and stays healthy) and a more sustainable one after the season.
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The Dolphins board is complaining big time about us messing up the field and asking when we're getting our own stadium and how many other NFL teams have to play after a college team has torn up their field
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Does not surprise me.

Fūck those gator loving pfhaggs.

The fault lies directly on Dolphins management - they’re responsible.

We’re there for the foreseeable future - any dolfan that has a problem with it can off themselves. Nothing’s changing, bītches.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
duke4heisman said:
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Think it through.

Which team gets the shorter end of the stick?

Not the canes.

The Dolphins get to play on the field after we’ve chewed it up. Dolphins fans are the ones that should be ****ed more than us.

We don’t know what the deal is behind the scenes. They may be stuck contractually with a subpar vendor. Or for whatever logistical reasons the field couldn’t be rolled out until today. I don’t pretend to be a turf expert, so I don’t know exactly what their options are, but my guess is that right now, in season, their options are very limited.

It could be that this is the wrong turf for the current conditions of heavy rain and limited sonlight and that they didn’t anticipate this rainfall pattern based on last year, when the turf was fine. It could be it’s a shītty vendor/sub-contractor. It could be that the base or the area underneath the sod needs better drainage or somehow needs to be different. I don’t really know and can only speculate.

Having said that, it’s a bottom line world, and somebody done fūcked up, whoever is responsible has to be accountable. Not that familiar with the phins org structure but the buck should stop at the CEO/President and Ross. They need to figure out a temporary solution for this season (hopefully this rollout takes root and stays healthy) and a more sustainable one after the season.
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The Dolphins board is complaining big time about us messing up the field and asking when we're getting our own stadium and how many other NFL teams have to play after a college team has torn up their field
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Does not surprise me.

Fūck those gator loving pfhaggs.

The fault lies directly on Dolphins management - they’re responsible.

We’re there for the foreseeable future - any dolfan that has a problem with it can off themselves. Nothing’s changing, bītches.
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It falls at the feel of Stephen Ross. He's choosing to let his football team and his tenants play on an inferior field to hopefully draw a few World Cup games and some bigger soccer games to Miami.

There's no other logical explanation. The BCS and the NFL don't care about turf fields for the Orange Bowl and the Super Bowl.
 
Fricking Tom Garfinkle. The guy was boasting about this stadium be the best thing since sliced bread.

In reality, he's effectively recreated a miniaturized Everglades ecosystem. Might as well just fill it up with a foot a water, get some gators, birds and snakes and turn it into a wildlife preserve.
 
I heard the opposite. We generate decent revenue for them at little added cost. The locker room that they built for the Hurricanes is fantastic, and they agreed to provide the "U' at the middle of the field for all Hurricane games. Dolphins were upset when we spoke with Beckham about his stadium. Dolphin's have been highly supportive of the Hurricanes - even though Ross is Michigan's biggest donor at present.
 
canesproponent said:
I heard the opposite. We generate decent revenue for them at little added cost. The locker room that they built for the Hurricanes is fantastic, and they agreed to provide the "U' at the middle of the field for all Hurricane games. Dolphins were upset when we spoke with Beckham about his stadium. Dolphin's have been highly supportive of the Hurricanes - even though Ross is Michigan's biggest donor at present.
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I don’t doubt that the phins make money on the deal, I have no doubt of that at all.

It’s overall been good for both sides, I wouldn’t argue against that.

But there are a couple of things that **** me off about the management and Ross.

First is that fūcked up “gator day” they had when Teabag was in town with the Broncos. That was a slap in the face.

The second is this situation. It may be something that caught them completely off guard, but they haven’t dealt with it effectively. Yet.
 
12:48 pm and only half the field gets direct sonlight.

The turn will only become worse when the time changes.

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Swing by Home Depot and pickup like 300 rolls of this. Problem solved. Real men can play through knee injuries.

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We only have 3 more games on it.....maybe four if we go to Orange Bowl. Get it figured out before next season.
 
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