Facility&Operations | ByCesar Carbajal
Getting USC ready for some football
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sod goes in. We must first select the variety of grass that will go in as well as our best window to install it. We were going with the 419 but when it was time to install the sod, we ended up going with the Tifsport variety which the sod farm said was in better shape due to the weather we were having. The football team's first game happened to be in Hawaii that year, giving us an extra day of grow in period before the team would get on it again after their first game.
tices, seven walkthroughs and one practice game in 29 days. We needed roughly around 30,000 square feet to cover between the hash marks and another 5,000 square feet to re-sod miscella- neous worn spots from practice drills. With the re-sodding project itself starting on the first of September, we started preparing the field for the compaction that comes along with machinery used to remove the existing turf to be removed, as well as the machinery used to install the new sod. We sliced the field in two direc- tions on August 27 because it is a less evasive form of aerating as the football team was still using the field. The team's final walkthrough be-
The center was pretty beat up after 29 prac- 26 SportsTurf | July 2012
fore traveling was on the 31st, as soon as their walkthrough was over, we got on the field and hollow tine aerated with quarter inch tines all of the turf that was not going to be removed.
The center was pretty beat up after 29 practices, seven walkthroughs and one practice game in 29 days.
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it comes to re-sodding our practice field for the football team, there is a lot of planning that goes into the project before the first piece of
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