This week's bizarre high school football score

All of ours is getting pushed back due to rain. We’re getting 3-4 months worth of rain in 48 hours. There is water everywhere. And it doesn’t matter how many layers you have. The bottom layer gets wet, you are screwed.

 

One of my former coverage teams dropped 88 points on an opponent last night. This was not some rando six-man game. This was a win-and-in game at the top level of Class 3A in Texas.

 

The school near me is booked solid all weekend, starting with football on Friday, JV on Saturday, field hockey on Saturday and Sunday morning, youth football on Sunday afternoon. You can throw some little kids soccer in there as well.

 

Turf fields are a dime a dozen around me in North Texas. Even the tiniest schools around here went to turf. The last holdout was way up in Sherman, where they couldn't put turf because the field flooded regularly, but they're finally building a new stadium.

 

It was good you had a game today.

 

I think all the high schools in Santa Cruz County have gone to turf, between football and flag football in the fall, soccer in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. And that's just high school varsity sports.

 

From an aesthetic perspective, I still love grass. But if the goal is "let's get as many people using this as possible," then turf is the answer.

 

One of our bigger local schools played a road game on grass the other night and it surprised me when I saw a video clip. I thought all of the Class 6A and 7A schools in Mississippi were turf by now. Our locals switched over in 2019, IIRC, and from a rough count I think it's only the third game they've played on grass since then.

 

Several years ago, a high school installed turf along with a new track.
Once meets started, records started falling. An investigation took place.
To the local Podunk Press's credit, it went with a pretty good head at the top of the front page:
New Track Falls Short

 

Best grass field I ever saw was at Texarkana Texas High probably 12 years ago. Couldn't tell the difference between grass and turf eyeballing from the press box. Had to be on the field to experience it. Their groundskeeper is probably working on a pro level now.