John Sorochan
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156 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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So my name's John Sorokin.
I'm a professor at the University of Tennessee, and I specialize in turfgrass science.
He wanted consistency, uniformity across the different venues.
Indoor fields and outdoor fields.
The one thing he said is, we don't want to have to replace any grass during the tournament.
which means going in and re-sodding a stadium or even a goal mouth.
We don't want to change any of that.
16 completely diverse stadiums from Mexico City at really high altitude to the same indoors in Vancouver at sea level and the same as in tropical Miami.
How do we get this to be the same, as close to the same as possible?
After a big gulp, my sleepless nights for the next eight years began.
Including World War II or even 9-11.
No, you don't want to know what my friends call me, but yeah, that's okay.
Yeah, by accident.
I started off at the University of Calgary thinking I'd be a lawyer in the oil and gas industry, and I did not like it.
So I got a job on a golf course, and I fell in love with it, and I transferred to Michigan State University.
And that's when the World Cup was here.
I started working on that in the late fall of 92 as a student.
And we got to go on the roof of the Silverdome when the whole tournament was over and jump on it like a trampoline.
It was air inflated, right?
And then we laid down and you're like, holy, I'm a couple hundred feet above the ground.
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