Wow, Tennessee. Just wow.
(h/t)
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UPDATE: In light of the above, don’t miss this read.
“We all understand there is an issue with the field right now…”
Filed under Because Nothing Sucks Like A Big Orange
Get The Picture 
Players who have played on it and been injured without an abnormal hit should be able to sue them, frankly.
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This was my first thought as well. The SEC should threaten to remove playing home conference games at Neyland until it can be proven that this mess has been remedied.
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Especially since TN has removed plays from their playbook because they were too dangerous. They should have told other teams.
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Finally. How many more players have to be injured before UT fixes the problem for all time?
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Sounds like something that could come up on the recruiting trail. The risk of injury is high enough without compounding it with this.
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Oh hell, we are recruiting against Tennessee now? How far we have fallen as a program….
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Manganese – a lot of people don’t even know what that is.
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Bet you can’t get stoned to the bejesus belt on that UTK crap, either.
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Many UT fans on various boards thought the UGA people were just being crybabies about the field conditions during the last two contest at Kneeland stadium. I too am glad others are starting to notice and are making some noise. UGA has had way too many knee injuries there over the last few years.
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in the words of Watson – “No Shit, Sherlock”
just for giggles, if I am the Chubb family, I’m calling the preeminent personal injury attorney in the country to have him or her on Dave Harts’s ass in a flash. I’m not a lawyer but they may could even create a class-action suit and include Keith Marshall, Justin Wesley-Scott and others from around the conference.
Dave Marler 706.594.4800
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More than giggles… JSW, MB and Chubb should all consider filing a claim against UT. Sounds like negligence to me. JSW and MB for sure as they were both no contact injuries and the field that day looked worse than any I have ever seen.
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Chubb was really no contact, too…there were players around, but he planted and that was that as he was going out of bounds.
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yep.
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“We will continue to invest (in) it so we can have a natural grass playing surface.”
In the meantime, suck it up because the opportunity is nowhere for a hostile work environment
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Keep in mind, that Neyland was built on top of a sinkhole, so that pic is about accurate. I used to have the picture of it that they discovered when they ripped the turf out in 1993 there. That sucker was massive.
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Sounds like maybe the league office has asked a few questions.
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Tennessee should have known that the new SEC Commissioner would tire of the unsafe field conditions when the bad publicity went nationwide.
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I live less than a mile from a public high school with 1,300 students. We are not in a wealthy area; the money it spends on its athletic fields are probably around the national average. Their field looks better in person than UT’s does on TV.
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Next time you go to Athens, ride by Social Circle High School and look at their field. Beautiful field turf. They are a Class A city funded school whose team didn’t win a game for a couple of years. It is 100 times better than that pasture at UT.
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Teams should refuse to play there until the playing surface is either redone (again) or replaced with field turf.
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Wow indeed. I am sure Nick Chubb would have appreciated a better playing surface.
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Methinks Reggie Bush threatening to sue the St. Louis Rams for unsafe field conditions has caused the sphincter tightening up there in Knoxville.
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“..An issue..?” Thanks Captain Obvious.
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Just mind-blowing that they won’t ask their own experts. I wonder who the current groundskeeper knows.
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I thought UGA’s ag department and Tifton extension complex was the leader in field turf. Surprised to hear UT had one. It was my understanding the world soccer field turfs used in South America’s hosting of the cup came from UGA.
Many 6A and 5A Georgia highs schools have gone to artificial surfaces. Why? One is injuries. Two is the state playoffs. Most high school football fans and supporters have seen and can remember what those grass fields become in late November due to rain and frost…the fields deteriorate rapidly due to the weather, the practices, and the play…shows ups in the quality of play and perhaps the outcome of a game.
Surprise the wine and chees crowd SEC ADs and the SEC office did not push UT to make changes, but then again those guys have no damn clue what turf is.
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You almost made it a whole comment without cracking on a coach or AD. Progress.
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Well at least he did manage to leave Fran Tarkenton’s name out of it.
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I put the turf issue squarely on the shoulders of Fran Tarkenton.
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No question the field is a black eye to UT and the SEC for the negligence of not stepping up to the obvious. Some of the injuries there are undoubtedly linked to the problem but I do not think it was a contributing factor to Nick Chubb’s. I remember watching the replays of his injury when it happened and couldn’t find anything to support that, and I hate UT enough to be biased against them. Aerating in late summer and over-seeding with rye in the fall is a really stupid thing to have done, even to a non-expert on turf management. You have to think the appearance of the surface was placed ahead of the safety of players, and quality of the playing field.
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UT has had problems with the playing surface at Neyland for decades. They put down Tartan Turf (or whatever it was) because they could not keep grass growing…cheaply.
Before the addition of Mizzou and TAMU, no SEC school had artificial turf because the league, as I remember, said so.
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Ole Miss, Arkansas, and Vandy have had field turf for a while.
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I know for sure Vandy had turf at least from 1990 to 1993, and it was that garbage spongy stuff that prevailed in the 1970s and 1980s. I know because I went there undergrad (UGA Law…Go Dawgs!) and was in the marching band there. Our shoes ended up green with plastic particles every band practice, but hey — we got to practice on the field at least.
It was definitely not grass, and it was before field turf.
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What a damn good read on JSW. Thanks Senator for posting that. JSW is a DGD. With that in mind, let us all get on one page Saturday night and show up early to give appreciation to the seniors. We have some good ones and they all deserve our support regardless of how we feel about the coaches and B-M.
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+1 and use your cell phone flash during kryptonite they are asking for that on social media
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Everyone walks off a football field for the last time. I am sorry that this was your time JSW. I will remember forever Scott Howard’s call at that LSU game. Grown men wept!!!!! In my opinion, that was the greatest game ever played in Sanford Stadium.
Good luck in life and don’t be a stranger!
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That field is so bad, Les Miles won’t even eat the grass
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UGA has had offensive linemen eat grass too, unfortunately they spent too much time face down in it on October 10.
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I saw JSW make that catch and run against the Cocks in 2013. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody run as fast as he did. He indeed gave UGA his all and did his best. That’s all us Dawg fans could ask for. Good luck to him.
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“Imagine what Georgia’s offense might look like with Malcolm Mitchell on one side of the field and a healthy Scot-Wesley on the other.”
Ummm…more open receivers and missed passes?
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Our quarterback would just stare one of them down, then throw off the wrong foot. :sleepy:
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Perhaps Derek Dooley will give them a loan to re-SOD. (I’ll show myself out now…)
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Must be all the dead bodies buried under the field, at least that is what the lady said on “The Blindside.”
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Great article about JSW, and I hope he has a great career/life going forward.
However, there were two glaring errors. It said we beat then #6 rank USCe and then #6 ranked LSU. If I’ve learned anything here, it’s that we never beat ranked teams or win any games of consequence.
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😀 +1
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My man grabbing a history degree! Represent LeConte Hall, brother! DGD, indeed.
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Grass don’t grow at all on Rocky Top; ground’s too rocky, by far.
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Actually that is a “diversionary” tactic BD. That lyric was written to trick the DEA into bypassing patrols on Rocky Top while they produce more MJ than any other state in the USA. Hell, it’s either that or Long Haired Country Boys have to get a real job.
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Nah, it’s California and it ain’t even close.
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Documentary I saw said TN, but this is probably because California now has has governments competing with the local private growers. Since it is all for medicinal purposes, it gets confusing counting the leaves and pills for Big Pharma.
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Aholes……just aholes. Can’t believe we lost to them
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