IPF Turf Update

[MGNation92]

[ADLER]

Wow, what a beautiful facility.

So, just North Texas and Houston have indoor practice fields inside solid structures? Texas has an inflatable structure and ATM has cloth, and aren't all the other indoor practice facilities (TCU, Tech, Baylor) short or partial fields? Isn't SMU building a tiny half field facility?

[MrStrange18]

I wish the Texas outline at Apogee was the kelly green like this

[TheColonyEagle]

[southsideguy]

When i was leaving the game on Saturday night there were still people working inside the IPF.  I left when the game was officially over.

[NTPoonKing]

Absolutely awesome.  Still having to pinch myself we have something like this.  Love it!

[dutch]

27 minutes ago, ADLER said:

Wow, what a beautiful facility.

So, just North Texas and Houston have indoor practice fields inside solid structures? Texas has an inflatable structure and ATM has cloth, and aren't all the other indoor practice facilities (TCU, Tech, Baylor) short or partial fields? Isn't SMU building a tiny half field facility?

SMU has already opened an indoor practice facility, it's a solid structure, but yeah, it's a tiny 90 yard half field, but real estate is a little harder to come by down here, costs a little more too. 

Ours does have AC though.

[Mean Green 93-98]

3 minutes ago, dutch said:

it's a tiny 90 yard half field

[forevereagle]

[Philip Ferguson]

[ADLER]

13 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

SMU midfield is at the 35, so a 70 yard playing field (close to half size) plus end zones.

At least they are all air conditioned, well all except UTSA. For some reason the people at that school are opposed to building walls.

Edited September 4, 2019 by ADLER

[Christopher Walker]

35 minutes ago, dutch said:

Ours does have AC though.

As does ours.

[El Paso Eagle]

This is what the SMU bosters wanted but the school thought is might get them in hot water

[Wag Tag]

[All About UNT]

[Matt from A700]

1 hour ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Trust him, he paid five times as much as we did for his schooling. 😉

[GangGreen]

2 hours ago, MGNation92 said:

I dunno. Strange shape.

[Philip Ferguson]

52 minutes ago, GangGreen said:

I dunno. Strange shape.

If MF can throw a deep ball around that curve, he should be admitted to the NFL HOF immediately!

[DeepGreen]

25 minutes ago, Philip Ferguson said:

If MF can throw a deep ball around that curve, he should be admitted to the NFL HOF immediately!

That's what I was thinking.  Fine may be working behind the scenes on a "slice pass", or the "hard draw pass" that will officially place him at the top of the Heisman list and winning that prestigious award. 

[Christopher Walker]

32 minutes ago, Philip Ferguson said:

If MF can throw a deep ball around that curve, he should be admitted to the NFL HOF immediately!

[Philip Ferguson]

23 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

That's what I was thinking.  Fine may be working behind the scenes on a "slice pass", or the "hard draw pass" that will officially place him at the top of the Heisman list and winning that prestigious award. 

That will make the Arkansas game look like Pop Warner

[Pavlovs Eagle]

3 hours ago, dutch said:

SMU has already opened an indoor practice facility, it's a solid structure, but yeah, it's a tiny 90 yard half field, but real estate is a little harder to come by down here, costs a little more too. 

Ours does have AC though.

I'm a bit astonished that SMU wasted space in the middle of campus for their IPF.  With space on campus coming at a premium, are the powers at be that confident they won't need that space for another academic building?  I'd guess you could have put it on the east side of 75 in the "SMU East Campus" area and found enough room for a full distance field.

I'm guessing whoever the big donor for the facility insisted it be in the heart of campus so they could point to it and brag from their Boulevard spot? 

[NorthTexan95]

3 hours ago, dutch said:

SMU has already opened an indoor practice facility, it's a solid structure, but yeah, it's a tiny 90 yard half field, but real estate is a little harder to come by down here, costs a little more too. 

Ours does have AC though.

Did SMU actually build one?  The only pictures on the SMU Athletics website are from the drawings made before construction.  The only pictures I found online were supposedly of the construction.  You'd think if the facility was so nice it wouldn't be so hard to find pictures of it. 

Pics or it didn't happen. 

[Texas Stranger]

6 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

Trust him, he paid five times as much as we did for his schooling. 😉

But wasn't smart enough to get into Rice, Stanford, or Ivy League.

[Talon90]

Game changer for recruiting.  

Edited September 6, 2019 by Talon90