Comments on: We’re Going Artificial

By: DR. Big Toe

DR. Big Toe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:54:36 +0000

This is a product designed specifically for turf toe and it allows the player to play at full speed.

By: DBH

DBH — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:42:38 +0000

Steve Miller described it thusly…

We’re living in a plastic land
Somebody give me a hand

By: bateshorn

bateshorn — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:37:54 +0000

If you can’t have a nice grass field in Austin, Texas, really, what’s the point in having a nice grass field, well, anywhere.

By: Bob in Houston

Bob in Houston — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:29:43 +0000

“Here’s some more circumstantial evidence that Oregon is less than pleased with their new turf.. if Dixon doesn’t go down, he may have won the Heisman in 2007.”

If I’d had a vote, I would have voted for him. Don’t care that he was hurt. He played enough.

By: Ojnab Bob

Ojnab Bob — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:26:36 +0000

Certainly the data sets are large enough in magnitude that it is difficult to quibble with his conclusions… it’s just jarring to me to see the statistics so at odds with my personal and observed experiences.

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:58:34 +0000

What do you make of this? Turf Field Research

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:57:03 +0000

Agreed.

Though the eternal problem with any study is that someone has to fund it. In this case, I don’t need a disinterested party so much as a robust data set – say, a publically available injury report warehouse compiled by the UIL to assess high school kid injuries.

Even if it’s funded by industry, I’m comfortable drawing some conclusions if I don’t see anything funny in their methodology.

By: Ojnab Bob

Ojnab Bob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:48:19 +0000

Scip, I’d be interested in seeing those studies too, particularly ones not funded by the industry – I am quite bitter about my ACL injury. Here’s some more circumstantial evidence that Oregon is less than pleased with their new turf.. if Dixon doesn’t go down, he may have won the Heisman in 2007.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat/2008/08/autzen_effect.html

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:52:20 +0000

I know it gets much hotter than grass. I may try to surf around and try to find some epidemiological studies comparing injury incidence and relative risk.

By: Ojnab Bob

Ojnab Bob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:38:49 +0000

Count me as one who definitely doesn’t believe the hype that the newer artificial surfaces are much “easier on the knees” than the old turf. I tore my ACL on FieldTurf in November, and I can _guarantee_ you that my cleat does not catch like that on any grass or dirt surface.

The only studies I’ve seen extolling the newer turf were funded by parties of interest, and other circumstantial evidence also indicates that grass should be the preferred surface. I’ve heard from several local HS coaches that their teams’ ankle and knee injuries in soccer and football have gone up, not down, since the installation of the Gen II turf surfaces.