Practice Conditions

by **benji** on Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:12 pm

Ok, so out here in Lubbock we just had to cut practice a little early due to an unforeseen dust storm ... I know, it's weird.

Anyone else have to face anything out of the ordinary in holding practice/ games?

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by **mholtz** on Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:04 pm

We had a snow storm in late april last year for the Michigan game. It was 70 degrees a few days before.

by **laxfan25** on Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:26 pm

mholtz wrote:We had a snow storm in late april last year for the Michigan game. It was 70 degrees a few days before.

I remember that game. It was funny, whenever the ball would roll on the ground it would build up like a snowball, and then there were lots of other clumps lying around. so first you had to decide which one had the ball, and then when you picked it up, had to toss it a few times to knock all the snow off. Somebody had a fluorescent pink ball in the warmups and I realized later we should have used that for the game - white balls in a snow storm - not the best choice!
The weather definitely kept the crowd size down too, compared to the 5,000+ the previous year.

by **laxdad03** on Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:28 pm

BYU had to help Colorado shovel a few inches of snow off the entire field by hand just before a game in 2004.

(How do you put pictures in these posts?)

by **LaxRef** on Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:27 pm

laxfan25 wrote:
mholtz wrote:We had a snow storm in late april last year for the Michigan game. It was 70 degrees a few days before.

I remember that game. It was funny, whenever the ball would roll on the ground it would build up like a snowball, and then there were lots of other clumps lying around. so first you had to decide which one had the ball, and then when you picked it up, had to toss it a few times to knock all the snow off. Somebody had a fluorescent pink ball in the warmups and I realized later we should have used that for the game - white balls in a snow storm - not the best choice!
The weather definitely kept the crowd size down too, compared to the 5,000+ the previous year.

Pink lacrosse balls are not legal under NCAA rules, but you could have used yellow, orange, or lime green. Don't try to use those lime-green balls in an NFHS game, though!

by **thedude** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:02 am

The RMLC playoffs last year were horrendous. Snow Rain Sleet, but the clouds cleared for the final between BYU and CSU and the field was even playable.

by **Jay Wisnieski** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:37 am

We were playing in Kansas City one time, and the place we were playing double booked the fields. The gave the actual fields to the Rugby tournament that was scheduled, and they gave us the secondary fields, which had not been mowed or marked with lines. It was pretty weird watching a couple of teammates' girlfriends helping mow and line the field in between quarters so we could at least have a halfway decent place to play.

by **laxfan25** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:55 am

LaxRef wrote:Pink lacrosse balls are not legal under NCAA rules, but you could have used yellow, orange, or lime green. Don't try to use those lime-green balls in an NFHS game, though!

I understand the rule, but in this case if the coaches agreed, I'd have been OK with it. It was in a fenced-in stadium, so the balls were not going very far out of bounds. It would have been MUCH easier to locate the ball!

by **Zeuslax** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:26 am

Why is there discrimination against pink balls? Lime green are ok...........but pink or blue, no dice?

by **Anderson** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:19 am

We were playing TCU a few years back in Lubbock. It was extremely windy and we were at a face-off getting ready to start (both face off guys were down) and then one ref started blowing his whistle to hold up the game. Turns out we had to wait for a tumble weed (a good size one too, about 3 1/2 to 4 ft) to cross the field so we could restart the game. It took me weeks to get all of the dirt out of my ears from that one.

by **laxative** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:40 am

I remember one night in practice it dropped down to the low 50s. Talk about cold!

by **laxfan25** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:24 pm

Zeuslax wrote:Why is there discrimination against pink balls? Lime green are ok...........but pink or blue, no dice?

Blue balls? That's your OWN problem to deal with!

by **MinesGoallie45** on Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:29 pm

I remember being in the goal for last years RMLC playoffs, and there was ice coating the whole net, to where it became totally solid. Very, Very Cold....not good April weather.

by **stickdoctor** on Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:01 pm

SFU vs CSU championship final - delayed for 15 or 20 minutes due to lightning storm.

I'm on the field when they call it and everyone starts heading for cover - I don't hear announcements too well so I'm scratching my head about what the hell's going on ... until someone tells me there's a lightning storm moving in and I might want to get under cover since I was holding a 6 foot lightning rod.