OT: Auburn to install college football's largest scoreboard
Jacobs said the video board above the south end zone will measure roughly 200-feet wide and 55- to 57-feet tall, which would surpass Texas A&M's recently-installed board that measures 7,661 square feet. Exact dimensions for Auburn's video board were not included in documents provided to Auburn's trustees.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
I hate the SEC. Bring back the lightbulb scoreboards!!!!
February 6th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
February 6th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
Actually, this is more like Auburn wants to make sure you can see every last detail of various replays from the moon even after you land on it, at least assuming Alabama is visible from the point at which you choose to land. Either way, it will be interesting to see which school tries to outdo even this in a year or two.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
I actually agree with this. If you want to improve the wifi at the stadium, offer an app that will allow people to watch a TV feed on their phones. Then you get the best of both worlds. An old school feel to your stadium as well as the technology that allows for some of the modern amenities.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
I heard NFL teams are pushing to have a tablet at every seat, for fantasy reasons I think. But where does it end?
Call me crazy, but I thought you went to games to, you know, WATCH THE GAMES!
February 6th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
Let's say a medium sized stadium (70k) offered this feature and 10% of the people took advantage. That would be 7,000 people in a very small space streaming video, not to mention anyone else in the stadium using that connection to do who knows what else. The bandwidth implications would be incredible. I can't begin to imagine what kind of set up (and the related costs) would be needed to accomplish that, but I certainly don't think it's at all too easily accomplished. I'd have to believe that creating the country's largest big screen would be cheaper in terms of cost, mainetenance and reliability.
February 6th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
(I did the numbers in my head and have been up about 20 hours. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me)
February 6th, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
Sounds like something MGoBlog could use.
February 6th, 2015 at 11:13 AM ^
just lead to longer bathroom lines?
February 6th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
That's a lot of beets...
February 6th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
Actually if you did it right, the bandwidth required is rather minimal. Instead of doing individual streams per person, you do a multicast stream. You can basically do high quality HD in about 2-3 Mbit/s and 4k in ~13ish Mbit/s.
February 6th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
So let's just say that 4k is unnecessary for any handheld device. Call it 2.5mbps x 15,000 viewers. That rounds out to 36GB per second. That's large, but not impossibly so. Have a dedicated ssid with a password that changes each week, so that you HAVE to be in the stadium to access. Have a redirect on that ssid that points to a local webpage that streams. Farm it to a few different servers. It's probably no more expensive than buying and maintaining a huge video screen.
I think that college football is like Disney, in that a good experience is one in which you feel transported to a different world. If I go to Michigan Stadium, I want to feel the ghosts of Fitz and Fielding. I want the band. I want programs. I want the classic pre-WWII feel for as much of it as I can. I don't want big screens and piped in music. I may make a post on this later, as it get revisted every so often, but it's fun to speculate on what could or should be a Michigan game.
February 6th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
Why would that even be under consideration?
Encourage fans to travel to the stadium to watch the game on their phones or pads? Stadium cams pan to fans staring down at their hands. (With green eggs and ham)
Prediction: the stadium wifi idea dies a quick death.
February 7th, 2015 at 1:07 AM ^
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February 6th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
After all the glitches got worked out in 2010-2011, I really like how our video boards look in the Big House. I went to ND this fall, and while the experience is great and everything, it is unbelievable that they don't have a single video board in the stadium.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
I wonder if they'll let Cecil Newton use that for revivalist meetings when no games are being played?
(Also, that's almost as much square footage as Reggie Bush's parents' old place.)
February 6th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^
Nicely done +1
February 6th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
I wish michigan would install ones that wrapped around the entire ends at both end zones. From the new luxary box structure around following the curve of the stadium to the other luxary box structure.
February 6th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
I don't know why you're getting negged. I would love this or having an upper-deck of seats added that wrapped around at least one endzone. I want all the noise to stay in the stadium. The luxury suites definitely help but, I want more noise to stay in.
February 6th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
included the option for a future expansion with a second tier holding up to 50,000 more people. That's one reason it is dug into the hillside.
February 6th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
Ribbon boards? Ugh, no thanks. They're tacky and remind me of NBA/NHL arenas.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
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February 6th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
I mean EXACTLY like this....
February 6th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
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February 6th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
for use throughout the game, not 3 for each half. So OSU used all of theirs and we used none. I'm not 100% sure but that's the answer I remember from another time your question was asked.
February 6th, 2015 at 7:48 PM ^
February 6th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
And not just for the score on the board (I was there, I loved that game). I also like the simplicity of Wrigley Field, but I'm now 37 and getting crustier, so whatever.
February 6th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
You were at the '69 OSU game, but you're 37? How does that work?
February 6th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
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February 7th, 2015 at 1:05 AM ^
February 6th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
A lot of schools have screens that are larger than Michigan Stadium, but to my knowledge no one has TWO screens larger than Michigan Stadium. Which is a big deal if you are directly under a screeen or at the far end.
Another benefit at Michigan Stadium is that we show no advertising on our video screens. Ohio has decent size screen, but 1/3 of the screen (as well as vast areas of the stadium) are covered in advertising. What benefit for the fans is having a huge screen covered in car dealership adds.
February 6th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
I'm pretty sure there aren't any screens bigger than Michigan Stadium. /s
February 6th, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
have to be bigger, better, and more digital all the time and everywhere?
I'm here to watch a game. Live. Not on TV. A lightbulb scoreboard is fine.
/my lawn, off of it
February 6th, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^
February 6th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
AWWWBURNZ GON WIN THE FOOTBAW GHAME!
February 6th, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^
Someone's compensating
February 6th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
Judging by all the success they had installing a new roof on Cam Newtons' dads church, this should go well
February 6th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
Scoreboards becoming as big as stadiums doesn't impress me.
When you're at the game, 99% of your attention is placed at what's happening on the field. The screens are nice for replays of huge plays but I could tell what was going on easily when the big house had these...
February 6th, 2015 at 7:46 PM ^
February 6th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
Colorado State is building a new stadium.
Arizona State is renovating Sun Devil Stadium.
Cincinnati is renovating Nippert Stadium.
Duke is renovating Wallace Wade Stadium.
I think CSU and Cincy are hoping to join the Big 12.
February 7th, 2015 at 12:59 AM ^
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February 6th, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^
120 yards to run "up" or "down" and 53.33 yards "left" or "right"?