Players practice on Eastern Washington’s red field (from the Spokane Spokesman-Review)
If you’re a fan of Boise Blue, you’ll love EWU red.
From the the Spokesman-Review:
Taiwan Jones felt faster, which has to be a bit unsettling for Eastern Washington University’s Big Sky Conference football foes.
Bo Levi Mitchell simply felt better about everything football, in general.
And Dante Calcote felt blessed.
Player reactions were all over the board Friday afternoon, when EWU’s football team – in preparation for Thursday night’s 2009 season opener against Nevada in Reno – practiced on the newly installed red Sprinturf playing surface in soon-to-be-renamed Woodward Field.
Beau Baldwin, the Eagles’ third-year head coach, weighed in as well, calling the bright, unique artificial turf “amazing.”
“First off, it’s a great surface; they did a great job of putting it down,” Baldwin said. “And as far as our players are concerned, I think it fits a lot of what our strengths are. We wanted the turf, itself, but the fact that it’s red, and looks as good as it does, has helped bring (Eastern) national attention – through TV, the internet and newspapers – that we couldn’t have paid for.”
You can read the entire story at the link.
What do you think? Is the red turf a cool idea, or is it too distracting for real football?
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