D-measuring, Sparty style

Submitted by allinforM on

 

"It is what folks are doing around the league and it's our turn to catch up," he said. "And what you like to do… is leapfrog the guy who just went before us."

Ianni was adamant that the upgrade is not in response to U-M, specifically.

"The only place we have a rivalry with Michigan is on the field," he said.

http://annarbor.com/news/will-new-scoreboards-at-spartan-stadium-leapfrog-u-ms-recent-installations/

Blazefire

December 14th, 2011 at 5:33 PM ^

Size of scoreboard in stadium =

this important

Size of crowd in stadium =

THIS IMPORTANT

Seriously... scoreboards are cool and add to the gameday experience, but once they're big enough to be helpful and display visible replays, it doesn't matter. I don't think she's gonna care if your gentalia are 9 or 10 inches. In either case, you're not disappointing anyone.

ChiBlueBoy

December 14th, 2011 at 5:36 PM ^

In a couple years, it'll enhance even more the experience of watching us beat them. With the direction they'll be heading, the team may suck but, "Hey, look at the scoreboard!"

BlueinGR

December 14th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^

This will be great.  Everyone will be able to see the trash on the other side of the stadium even better!  That's what has been missing all of these years . . .

BlueVoix

December 14th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^

The rendering the article mentions is hilarious, in part because the scoreboard would be roughly the size of the entire southern portion of the stadium, but also because they chose to take images from Sparty playing against Texas Tech in the 2010 Alamo Bowl.  You know, the same Alamo Bowl where TTU beat Sparty 41 - 31.  But in this rendering...the score is 37-10.  At home.  Right.

jared32696

December 14th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^

Sparty is such a dumbass. We have two screens that are huge. So if the dumbasses want to have one screen thats bigger than our  ONE of our  TWO video boards, then so be it. Their other screens are a mute point

WolvinLA2

December 14th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^

But they still have a shit-hole stadium.  This is like the guy who has a janky car with a super expensive sterao system.  Or better yet, the guy who has the dirt ball apartment with a big screen TV.  Sure, the TV is cool, except that no one wants to go to his place anyway. 

bluebyyou

December 14th, 2011 at 5:56 PM ^

Total Attendance 2011

Michigan  897,431

MSU          518,545

Little brother is going to have to do some growing to catch up. 

One item that they do have that we don't is the infamous trash tornado, but you can't have everything.

wildbackdunesman

December 14th, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^

The honest truth is anyone that has ever been to Spartan Stadium knows that they need an upgrade in the scoreboard department. Why should't they try to beat out the best scoreboards when they do a long over due upgrade? This is a non-issue. Someone in the conference will get a bigger scoreboard sooner or later.

BlockM

December 14th, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^

I don't care in the least, but how hilarious would it be if the sides of our current scoreboards were covering up more screen, so just when someone else makes a bigger one we uncover them and say, "Whoops, try again!"