Schoellkopf Field's new artificial turf [no, not Lehman's 2004 graduation speech]

[Ben Rocky '04]

Check out the slideshow:
http://www.cornellbigred.com/sports/gallery/SchoellkopfFT2/

Not sure how I feel about those end zones.....

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Ben Rocky '04]Check out the slideshow:
http://www.cornellbigred.com/sports/gallery/SchoellkopfFT2/

Not sure how I feel about those end zones.....[/quote]

It all looks a lot better than what we have now. Lacrosse is  better on this as well. The surface plays more like grass than does the old surface. Ground balls don't speed off like before.

[Trotsky]

I heart the end zones. ::dribble::

[Josh '99]

[quote Ben Rocky '04]Not sure how I feel about those end zones.....[/quote]Love 'em.  That's what end zones are supposed to look like.

[ithacat]

I think the field looks sharp. Now, if something could be done about landscaping the rest of the bowl, installing a new scoreboard, adding some color to the bleachers, and updating the concourses & restrooms I'd be pretty happy.

[French Rage]

I haven't been back to a game in awhile so I forgot, what did the old endzones look like?  Regardless, I like the new ones.

[TimV]

The C.  It should be rotated 180 degrees to look right from the press box side, where the TV cameras (occasionally) are. ::doh::

[ugarte]

[quote Josh '99][quote Ben Rocky '04]Not sure how I feel about those end zones.....[/quote]Love 'em.  That's what end zones are supposed to look like.[/quote]
I like the color; I don't love the font (too chunky) or letter size (too big). Still, the field as a whole looks great.

[CowbellGuy]

The photos don't do it justice. It's really searing and not anything I would consider Cornell red. It's almost magenta. Or at least far closer to magenta than I'd like. But holy hell, it's bright.

[RichH]

[quote French Rage]I haven't been back to a game in awhile so I forgot, what did the old endzones look like?  Regardless, I like the new ones.[/quote]

The most recent incarnation was a plain, green, blank nothing.  The school name, for some reason was placed beyond each end zone.  I hated that.

http://www.cornellbigred.com/Sports/general/2007/SchoellkopfField.asp

In addition, the "C" orientation was also facing the Crescent with the last turf:



One of the turf installations before that one had red block "CORNELL" in the green end zones and the "C" oriented to the Press Box.

http://cfa.alumni.cornell.edu/images/CUStadium.jpg

I admit to being in love with the new end zones.  Love the color, too.  I wonder if FieldTurf resists fading more.  It was kinda sad to see the green fade and the red "C" turn pink.

I assume the lacrosse & field hockey lines can be added later?

[Josh '99]

[quote RichH][/quote]Perhaps my happiness about the new end zones (other than admittedly not having seen the red in person to judge the color) is because I thought this old design looked unbelievably stupid.

[Ben Rocky '04]

I'm actually only taking issue with 'BIG RED' instead of 'CORNELL' in the end zones.  I like the font of the C in the middle, and the fake green looks way better than the faded stuff we had.

[Scersk '97]

Thank god there's no Huggie Bear.

[Josh '99]

[quote Ben Rocky '04]I'm actually only taking issue with 'BIG RED' instead of 'CORNELL' in the end zones.  I like the font of the C in the middle, and the fake green looks way better than the faded stuff we had.[/quote]It looks like the north end zone says "BIG RED" and the south end zone says "CORNELL".

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote Scersk '97]Thank god there's no Huggie Bear.[/quote]

I had the same reaction.