WEEK 11: UC Davis @ Idaho Wow - 2022 - who'd have thought it? I ride around Sochor Field quite a bit and watched them take up and then install the new surface. It was quite fascinating to see the depth of preparation the new field required. Is it better than grass or Acme Screendoor and Field Surface? No idea. But I don't think we can lay injuries even mostly on the field. As athletes become more powerful they surely put more stress on their bodies and finding the right balance between pure strength, weight, and what the body can actually endure must be an increasingly difficult assessment for trainers and coaches. You can look across all of sport these days and see the rate of injury, substantial injury, rising. Compare an NFL lineman from the 60s to a college lineman in even the Big Sky let alone Ohio State. It's a different world. At some point we'll reach a limit and may already be there.