Can someone on campus tell me how well the IPF is being utilized so far? It was marketed for multi use, so I'm just wondering what actually goes on in this building besides football practices.

I've seen almost every outdoor sport and club use it at one point or another.

I've heard similar as RPBobcat, being used many hours a day. Hope there's some planning ahead on field replacement whenever that comes. Might be earlier than expected if it's busy 10+ hours a day.

Also, https://twitter.com/OUWalterFH is out there. Doesn't really give you a schedule, but you get an idea of things going on.

My wife and I made a 5-Year pledge to the facility so we made it a point to stop by with our daughter on our way back to Virginia after visiting my family in Columbus during the Christmas holiday.

First off, pictures do not do justice in respect to how big the facility is. We walked around the entire track and it also looks much larger than it does from the outside in person.

The lobby entrance was very nice and the staff person was very accommodating.

While the track is not officially the same size as an outdoor or indoor track, it will be of great benefit to the track team and others who train on the track. It also has a long jump and pole vault pit.

There is also a netting system that can divide the field into sections so that multiple teams can safely use the facility at the same time. I also noticed multiple nets that drop down to create batting cages for baseball and softball.

In addition to varsity sports, the band, intramurals and other community events, the ROTC does (as mentioned above) uses the facility. There is a full page picture on the back inside cover of the current Alumni magazine of the ROTC training in the facility. During my ROTC Boot Camp at Fort Knox (Summer of 1983) I had a lot of sawdust from the exercise pit kicked into my face during 5am four point push ups. A few rubber pellets should not be too bad.

I know that many would make changes to the facility, but based on space and financial considerations, I think the facility is of high quality and will benefit many students, alumni and others from the community.

OCF: I am 100% certain the field is the regulation full length of 120 yards including the end-zones. I am 95% sure the field is regulation width.

The corners of the end-zone are cut off by the track which is pretty common. I have seen pictures such as Akron where more of the corner is cut off.

This is hard believe, but UCLA does not have a full size outdoor practice field. When you look at the picture you will see the field is only 80 (100 yards including end-zone) yards as there are no 40 yard lines.

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/908228/UCLA_1_me...

As I said, I am not quite a 100% sure about the width.

Although the UCLA field is not a full 100 yards, it would probably be more important that the width be regulation when practicing sideline pass patterns from the hash marks.

The Bobcat Logo in the IFP looks to be the exact same size as Peden stretching from the 40 yard lines. The hash marks and yard lines seem to be about the right distance from the sideline.

You can also see the two hitting cage nets in this picture.

http://www.ohiopresidentsdesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014...

Indoor Attack Cat: https://j3140s14.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/9800271.jpeg

Outdoor Attack Cat: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20130805/CL58699?max=400

The old outdoor logo was a bit smaller not stretching out as close to the 40 yard line. https://blackandyellow12.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dscn...

The field is regulation width as well, 160', plus an additional 6' or so on the sidelines. The Attack Cat is exactly the same as in Peden, just "flipped" to face towards Ping, which is the side the viewing platform is on. Somewhat odd, but the viewing platform is centered sort of between the 40-45 yard lines, not directly on the 50. As you can see from photos, both HS and College hashes are permanently sewn in. There are also some other black markers sewn into the turf that I'm not exactly sure what they are for...

The netting also is/has netting for the golf team to hit into, as well as the softball/baseball netting.

Once the netting is dropped down, there are goal posts woven into the netting on each end. I also believe there are soccer goals woven into the net as well, but not 100% sure on that either.

See I knew that I could trust BG86's judgement at 95 percent sure. I've noticed in the past that he has very good attention to detail, much more so than yours truly who tends to be a seat of the pants estimate type of guy. ;-)

When my wife and I were there in November we went to front dsek and saw that no team or the 110 was practicing in the IPf.We asked if it was O.K. to take a walk around.

People at the desk said no problem,have fun.

My daughter's high school softball team participated in winter softball on Sunday's from November through January. Facility was awesome! Everyone was so impressed!

What a waste. That doesn't look like regulation DDG.

I know this has been discussed before, but I was just wondering which MAC teams do not have an IPF?

Looking at the pictures and from reading the description,it doesn't have track.