Here's a good look to what its going to look like soon. Looks like an actual SEC indoor practice facility.
Nutter Field House Renovation
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We'll take it. Whoever the dumbasses who designed the original with the short field with the possibility of both teams being in there together is a fk'n joke.
For the late 1980's it was state of the art, one of the 1st indoor college practice facilities. In a couple months our boys will be running on new turf indoors and a new playing surface in The Krog.
Literally connected to the practice facility. They do not use it very often, mostly outside during the season.
Same type as before, field turf, just a fresh version replacing the almost 10 yr old one
It was completed in 1992.
I attended one fund raising talk by Coach Claiborne: I sponsored him to a day time lunch club (Lions/Rotary, I’ve forgotten) in the Fall of 1990 in London, Kentucky.
Corey Reeve’s Aunt worked in our law firm at the time, so that was a selling point I used to get Coach Claiborne to London. Corey committed and played his career at UK.
Claiborne brought slides of a similar facility at—-I believe Kent State—-also with a track that cut off the corners of the end zone.
I’m pretty certain it was the first SEC indoor facility of its kind.
I and many fans kicked in modest amounts: and Mr. Nutter millions.
Believe they’re using the same type of turf that’s on the Citrus Bowl field. May not be the same tint of green, but is the same type.
In fairness the original design was at a time very few had an indoor. The sham is that it’s taken so long to adjust it
Drove past the stadium today and could see in via one of the tunnels/gates. Looks very bright, which is good. I’m sure it fades some but it looked sharp what little I could see
I think we are talking about a new synthetic turf.
But I always wondered why my fescue is darker green running with my septic leach lines, so WTF do I know??
I hope they get some new folding chairs and a new projector screen for the "Recruiting Corner"...
Saw where Walmart has a sale on card tables too.
I am uninformed on the playing surface and landscaping industry but as a native Kentuckian I am curious - has it ever been a realistic possibility to have traditional Kentucky bluegrass used on Kroger Field? I’d like to believe we have the budget to hire a full-time lawn care crew to maintain conditions.
I'm by no means a grass expert, but you typically don't use bluegrass in high traffic areas. I don't think it would hold up to constant use for football games and practices. I think Fescue would probably hold up better than bluegrass, but I don't know if it would hold up either.
UK has a full time grounds crew. They take care of the practice fields and other playing surfaces.
Have a good friend who’s a retired golf course superintendent that talked about Kentucky being to far south for cool weather grasses and too far north for warm weather grass. When we had Bermuda it would turn brown and go dormant in October. That’s not a good playing surface. The Titans are having the same problem with their surface. That’s why they’re going to field turf in their new stadium.
Bluegrass is used some in more northern states along with Perennial Rye. Bluegrass just takes so long to grow. It is a beautiful grass. I’m sure Kentucky would have used it if it would work. With the traffic on a football field you need quick growing grass.
Interesting. Kentucky has used state of the art artificial surfacing for football for many years. of course if natural grass would work better, they would use it. Natural grass is preferred, but weather conditions in Lexington go to both extremes every year. It has always been hard to grow natural grass there. The technology in artificial surfacing has gotten better.
I don’t know understand what’s up with the midfield logo why can’t they have a gigantic UK or the state of Kentucky anything but that
Needs state outline from 40 to 40 with a much larger UK in the center.
The logo is terrible. Always has been too small. Nut the blue is sharp not having the different shades for checkerboard.
Agree. We are so damn conservative sometimes it’s pathetic.
And it's not just that logo. All around the stadium, the graphics/logos are small. Check out how tiny they are next to the press boxes.
Apparently there's an NCAA Rule that the logo cannot be bigger than a certain height. It can be longer, but not higher.
Learned something new today. Thanks for sharing. I googled the rule and here it is:
Only these contrasting decorative markings are allowed: conference logo, college or university name and logo, and team name and logo. These are permissible within the sidelines and between the goal lines, under these conditions (See Appendix C):
- The entirety of all yard lines, goal lines, and sidelines must be clearly visible. No portion of any such line may be obscured by decorative markings.
- No such markings may touch or enclose the hash marks.
They could make it a little bigger without it going into the hash marks, but not much bigger. As @sluggercatfan stated above, the state outline would be great similar to what NC State and East Carolina do.
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