What is the deal with the turf at the New Box?

They planted too late. Didn't get enough time to fully settle/mature before the first practices and games. Thus, they needed to add some sand filler to help the growth.

Lots of foot traffic in that area too, obviously.

lsu seriously has no clue how to grow grass. not even joking.

M State knows how to grow some grass

$36 million spent on a new stadium and we still have shitty turf...

40M New Upper, and yet we still have bald spots on the field, and Gatorade lime-green LSU endzones instead of canary yellow on gamedays.

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What is the deal with the turf at the New Box?
Watching the highlights from tonights game and is the grass just in front of homeplate and in the area between the batter's box and dugouts already dead??

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Here we go again with this shite. I knew it was only a matter of time before there was problem with the grass at the new Box. What did yall expect? I'm sure the same incompetent and clueless clowns that can't grow a thick and durable turf in Tiger Stadium are the same ones that work the field for baseball.

Nothing will ever change until Alleva hires a Professional Turf Manager to oversee all the athletic fields. Don't know what the problem is and why the man won't pull the trigger and make this hire.

In their defense, it IS hard to get a new athletic field deeply rooted in cool and cold weather, but an experienced turf guy will know just exactly what to do to minimize the grass loss.

Oh well, bring on the dirt, sand and paint. Dirt, sand and paint are more valuable to the Bozo LSUAD groundskeepers than Gold. Throw some dirt down, sprinkle some sand on top and paint it green. Only at LSU. .........

Hey I'm a turf guy from LSU. I could get it right but they won't call me. I've been trying to help out for 20 yrs.

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LSU's Ath-Dept needs George Toma on their speed dial, cut a check, get him down to BR for a month.

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In 2005, when the Saints played in Tiger Stadium, the NFL brought in Toma to look at our turf. When I spoke to him on the sidelines, he told me it was the worst he had ever seen.

I was in Hammond Tuesday and saw the last third of the game at Southeastern. I noticed that their turf looked better than the turf at Alex Box. And then last night I see all the sand around home plate. BTW, they also had some sand around the first and third base coaches' boxes, but it wasn't quite as noticible.

The sand is there for topdressing. You will find it on all fields about this time of year. It is part of the process.

Grass does not stay green year round, some of you need to understand that. We haven't had enough warm weather to pull all of the Bermuda out of dormancy. If The Box looks like this in the middle of April, then we need to bitch and complain.