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Post by captaincoyote on Apr 21, 2024 8:09:57 GMT -6
Defense line looks good and deep. First team linebackers were Gary Bryant III , Nate Ewell and Tevon McKevliy and are fast. One player I like was Rus Reed he is 6-4 205 looked fast as he rushed the quarterback he is Chad Greenway nephew. I really liked what I saw from the D yesterday. Playmakers everywhere. |
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jackjd
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Post by jackjd on Apr 22, 2024 0:45:39 GMT -6
That track around the football field looks like dirt and has at least one car on it. Did they pick up the track surface in the offseason? Surely they weren't running events on that?... I'm pretty sure the Inman Field surface was cinders, not dirt, but it is possible it was also a finely-crushed-rock surface (some tracks in the region were made of finely- crushed pink rock like the Sioux quartzite quarried in the Sioux Falls area). In the Inman Field days, USD's track was a good track and the Inman Field track records proved the surface was a good running surface. The fact that a car was parked on it is not surprising. The surface was routinely packed by driving equipment over it prior to the track season and as needed during the season. ------------ I ran on the Inman Field track while a member of SDSU's Track & Field team for four years. Weather permitting, SDSU and USD had early-season dual track meets every year, alternating between Vermillion and Brookings. I have only a recollection of the meet held in Vermillion my freshman year, 1973 but we should have also run there in 1975. I also ran on the Inman Field track a couple of times while in law school, participating in the spring intramural track meet for the law school's "team". The track layout at Inman Field was innovative. Today, people complain about combination football & track stadiums because the football fans want to be as close as they can get to the football playing field. USD's Inman Field was an example of a good compromise: the track went behind the stands on one side (the north or student side) and in front of the stands on the other side (south side where the alums, season ticket holders, and the press box were located). I ran at a lot of tracks during high school and college and Inman Field was the only one I saw configured that way. In recent years, when new football stadiums are constructed, putting a competition track inside a football stadium is avoided. In my freshman year, Spring of 1973, the SDSU/USD dual meet was held in Vermillion. At that time of the year, the sun's position combined with the height of the north stadium stands resulted in most of the track on the north side, behind the stands, was in the shade. There was a small snow bank running alongside the track that took its time to melt. In the races that were 440 yards (yeah, yards) and longer, the runners were in 65-degree sunshine until the backstretch behind the north stands where the temp seemed 10 degrees cooler and we were in shade with snow on the side of the track. In 1973 there were very few "all-weather-surface" tracks. Most tracks in the region were "cinder track" while a few were made of some form of crushed rock. The goal was to have a track surface that could be compacted and would drain. The source of cinders years ago was coal-fired power plants and railroad yards. Cinders were the waste by-product of burning coal. At some point, it seemed cinder tracks did resemble dirt but most had a fair percentage of cinders -- 100% dirt tracks wouldn't work because they'd loosen up quickly and in wet conditions turn to mud and in dry conditions, turn to dust. I recall my high school coach saying cinders were getting hard to find -- every few years it was a good idea to work in a couple truck loads of cinders to keep a cinder track in good shape. By the 1970s, schools were all making plans to replace cinder tracks. |
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Post by 08yote on Apr 25, 2024 7:24:39 GMT -6
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Post by bobo on Apr 25, 2024 11:48:40 GMT -6
They definitely seemed to do a good job in the scrimmage. Proof will be in the pudding as they progress. Definitely wouldn't think decisions are made after 15 practices at this point.
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