NC State athletics posted a couple snippets of the still-being-renovated Doak Field on Twitter yesterday, causing a bit of a hullaballoo. The reason for the consternation: the addition of more artificial turf to the field.
See here:
(Here’s that image blowed up.)
NC State felt like one of the last places still resisting this transition, and as a would-be cranky old baseball person, I don’t much care for this, but I get it. It’s a lot easier and less expensive to maintain the artificial turf, and anyway, players don’t seem to have a problem with playing on it.