First-world problem. Second-rate solution.
That’s probably the best way to describe the University of Toledo football team’s practice dilemma this week.
If the Rockets want to prepare on grass — the surface on which it will play Saturday night at Mississippi State — they are [crap] out of luck.
Unless they want to step in it.
Their lone option on campus would be the intramural fields off of Douglas Road, where the turf is splotchy and uneven and a sign on the chain-link fence reminds visitors: “PLEASE CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR PET.”
The team uses them now and then during training camp to spread out and escape the worst of the summer heat (artificial turf generally runs at least 20 degrees hotter than grass).