Grass coming to Memorial Stadium after 2025 season
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Sam McKewon on Nebraska moving to grass:"The reality is Iowa State, Michigan State, Penn State...They all have grass. And it's been a while since I've been to Iowa City, but they have nice turf. And Penn State has nice turf. Michigan State's is ok. Purdue's is a little messed up because they use a bermuda grass that they use on a golf course...Nebraska probably won't be using that...I think it's a great idea. They'll use a blue grass or whatever they have. It does cost more. Maintenance cost - that's not going to be easy. The heated field, the Packers have that....Nebraska is going to have to navigate the high school championships and they are going to have to chew on whether they want a bunch more events in the stadium. For example, could you really have a Volleyball Day on August 31st if you're playing 5 days later and that thing is chewed up to heck.But beautiful grass surface, there is nothing better."
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I was there too. The thing I remember the most was the incredible number and length of TV timeouts. They really seemed to affect the tempo of the game. Plus, between all the TOs and going into overtime, it seemed like a 4 hour game (was 3:19 actually). ND had that exclusive contract with NBC at the time. What I didn't know at the time was that was the future of college football and all the games take forever now.
That's the video I posted. Looks amazing.
While we likely won't do something like that, a retractable field of some sort with indoor growing should be at least tried.
That will be easy when they can put the field in it's underground growing cave like Bernabeu.
According to Dannen, grass won't be installed in Memorial Stadium until the stadium renovations are completed in 2028. In the mean time, new turf will be installed after spring ball next year.
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A change in plans isn’t a lie. Who knows what happened but I don’t see any incentive for TD to “lie”.
I wouldn’t get too flustered about proposed renovations as Dannen does not have a comprehensive plan. The proposed renovations are too fragmented and given that it’ll be mostly funded by private dollars a lot can change.
