Terps Sports

There is no reason once field turf is installed that the soccer team can't play games at Byrd. They do deserve their own field, but at least they would have access to Gossett and the ability to dress in real locker rooms.

It would also be nice if UA would make jerseys available for sale. Sasho says they won't make them unless they get a guarantee order of 10,000. Really????? If you make them for the team, you could at least make a few extra to sell in the team store.

While yes they would actually have actual locker rooms, I would hate this.

The soccer team is not only a phenomenal success story for this university but Sasho is a great ambassador for the school as well. This needs to happen and reward both the mens and womens programs for their unbelievable success.

Yes. Plenty of schools use the same stadium for soccer and lacrosse.

I'm sure there are some club ultimate frisbee nerds who are the human equivalent to some endangered worm.

I was curious what the thought of Turf for soccer is. I know the Seattle Sounders and many HS teams play on turf, but I'm guessing Grass is preferred. Of the top of my head, UMBC and Towson use Grass for Soccer, but I guess Loyola uses turf.

A 10k stadium would be cool, Byrd just seems to big Lacrosse, yet you go to a intimate 9k place like Hopkins and it's a special environment. Seeing how much a 10k stadium costed Towson, This is probably a bigger project than people expect.

posted this in another thread, but thought I would share it here as well:

the campus facilities master plan calls for improvements to the current location of ludwig and not a new soccer stadium. page 73 and 74 show some detail here: http://www.facilities.umd.edu/MasterPlan/Docs/Sep14Draft.pdf

those improvements (as detailed by the plan) are set to be done during 'planning period 2' which doesn't begin until 2022.....

A few MLS teams use FieldTurf, as well as a few other clubs globally, but most of Europe frowns upon it or doesn't allow it at their top levels. I seem to remember some English players getting bitter a couple years back playing on an artificial surface in Russia, and they actually had the stadium in Moscow changed from Turf to Grass for the Champions League final that was held there.

I actually like playing on FieldTurf, mainly because for rec type fields, you rarely see well-maintained grass. If the field is used a lot, the grass will get beat to hell, and will actually cause more injuries IMO. A lot of professional players seem to think playing on turf causes more injuries, but I think its more forgiving than bad grass.

If they were to build a facility that would be used by multiple teams (like mens and womens lacross/soccer as mentioned previously), and was also being used for practices, it would have to be FieldTurf. But grass has and will always be preferred by most of the soccer community.