I remember . . .
when the first Astroturf field was installed in the stadium, and not on some practice field, the University spent IIRC $460,000. Practice fields were covered with "grass" that included some pretty nasty stickers, just like the practice fields at my high school at the time.
TCU had to have the plastic-over-hard-surface fake grass, because UTx had it and everyone else was getting it.
You didn't have to be an athlete or even a football expert to wonder what the hell was going on-- that surface was hard and absolutely unyielding. A turribad place to play football. And that was checking it out when the weather was cool, not on a 95 degree September afternoon.
If I would wish anyone rotting-in-Hell, the salesmen that convinced colleges that the original Astroturf was a good surface for playing football would be among them.