bigsmooth wrote:another idiotic statement by shuk...LC plays on field turf....soccer is not meant to be played on field turf. In DI athletics you will not see any conference championships or NCAA college cups played on field turf. LU's field is a very nice surface. maybe that is how you people in DIII do it, but not DI. if you are gonna come on here and talk trash about my school please go the heck away. all you have ever done is come on here and make idiotic statements, and have been kicked off the board and then come back under a new name. go make an LC board..if anyone cares and talk to yourself, but do not come on this board and talk trash about my school. have a little respect.
Marist installed a Turf Field in 2007, they hosted their conference's womens soccer tournament on the field.
Southeast Missouri State has hosted numerous women's soccer conference tournament games and championships on their FieldTurf that was installed in 2000.
Cincinnati men's soccer plays on a fieldturf field. they hosted a big east tournament game in 2006, 2005.
Boston Univ. has fieldturf and has hosted conference tournaments.
Are those not D1 schools participating in D1 conferences? Must not just be a D3 thing. It's a shame those darn D1s are stooping to the level of D3s.
FieldTurf even has a link on their website for FieldTurf fields that are recommended by FIFA, yes the FIFA.
I'm sure I could find more examples if I wanted to, but I think this is enough to prove the point.