MUTS gettin' new field turf

[MeanGreen61]

Football - April 8, 2006

Spring Game Notebook: New turf will be reality

MT Media Relations

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - One of the biggest cheers of the day came in the Blue Raider locker room before the Blue-White Spring Game kicked off at Floyd Stadium.

Prior to his team taking the field, Head Coach Rick Stockstill told his players this would be the last time they would run onto the artificial turf in its current state, adding the Blue Raiders would be playing on a new synthetic surface beginning this fall.

"In our pregame talk, I told our team about the check presentation that would occur before the start of the game and the players started cheering and just would not stop," said Stockstill. "That tells you how important this is to them and how appreciative they are to our donors and administration for helping make this happen."

Two donors joined President Sidney McPhee and Director of Athletics Chris Massaro prior to kickoff to make a sizable contribution to help offset the cost of the new playing surface that will be installed in time for the season opener against Florida International on August 31. Mark and Anita Pirtle and Joey and Debbie Jacobs contributed $100,000 each toward the project.

"This will be the last game played on this turf," said Massaro, igniting a unison roar of support amongst the Blue Raider faithful in attendance.

Details regarding the start date of the installation and when the project would be completed will be forthcoming.

[NTEagle08]

good to hear, the old astroturf is being fastly replaced by D-IA schools. I know that Texas Tech, who was the last BCS to school to have the old school astroturf is finally converting over. I think the only places that the old school astroturf will be after TTU and MTSU replace it will be Idaho and Syracuse, both indoor multi-purpose stadiums.