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**1inStripes** · December 3rd, 2009, 10:19 AM

I reckon they like their bermuda field as is. Of course it could all be hearsay, but my source is pretty reliable.

**sup-rbeast** · December 3rd, 2009, 01:42 PM

Seriously, why would a high school coach want to put his players on that stuff constantly? There are all kinds of arguments about safety, cost, etc...but really, IMO the safest field to play on is grass cuz it gives. Any for of plastic just gives to a point..then a joint gives.

**Counts** · December 3rd, 2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by sup-rbeast

Seriously, why would a high school coach want to put his players on that stuff constantly? There are all kinds of arguments about safety, cost, etc...but really, IMO the safest field to play on is grass cuz it gives. Any for of plastic just gives to a point..then a joint gives.

Seen a ton more injurys due to poor footing playing in slop than I have seen due to field turf

**1inStripes** · December 3rd, 2009, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by sup-rbeast

Seriously, why would a high school coach want to put his players on that stuff constantly? There are all kinds of arguments about safety, cost, etc...but really, IMO the safest field to play on is grass cuz it gives. Any for of plastic just gives to a point..then a joint gives.

Astroturf yes, but field turf not so much. It plays almost identical to natural surface, and depending on where that natural surface is, it plays better than some.

**VOL61** · December 3rd, 2009, 02:44 PM

There is no field turf at Wise. They have Astroturf, carpet, whatever you want to call it. But I have been on the fields at DB and Richlands. They have field turf. It is nice. Very comparable to grass. The stuff at Wise isn't....

**1inStripes** · December 3rd, 2009, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by VOL61

There is no field turf at Wise. They have Astroturf, carpet, whatever you want to call it. But I have been on the fields at DB and Richlands. They have field turf. It is nice. Very comparable to grass. The stuff at Wise isn't....

But supr-beast it appears is referencing why Lebanon may have turned down a field turf field. I wasn't referring to Wise.

**Counts** · December 3rd, 2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by VOL61

There is no field turf at Wise. They have Astroturf, carpet, whatever you want to call it. But I have been on the fields at DB and Richlands. They have field turf. It is nice. Very comparable to grass. The stuff at Wise isn't....

We are talking about why Lebanon would or would not want to put down a surface like Richlands and Honaker (Not like UVA-Wise)

**sup-rbeast** · December 4th, 2009, 09:46 AM

Field turf is still plastic...the reason you haven't seen as many injuries on it yet is because comparatively there aren't as many of em yet. Plastic is plastic, regardless of what the person selling it to you says. Football was intended to be played on grass...and that's where it should be played.