MSU proposes new scoreboards at Spartan Stadium
Michigan State has propsed new scoreboards for their stadium and the renderings were published today by the State News.
http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/01/renderings_unveiled_for_…
They look nice and will have all sorts of room for ads. Also, apparently they were killing Texas Tech when the pictures were taken.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:35 PM ^
In other intersting topics, Germany is a country in Europe. Sorry, I just could care less what they are doing.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:46 PM ^
It's I couldn't care less. Nice job moron.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
Get a life Grammar nazi
January 24th, 2012 at 9:28 PM ^
He is saying that he does care a little, but not a lot? You know what happens when you assume...
January 24th, 2012 at 8:48 PM ^
This is all part of the plan to snake oil walk-ons from Slippery Rock, and expand recruiting nationally, and by nationally I mean the UP.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
Sparty must be learning from the chinese clone your enemies Ideas instead of being original
January 24th, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
Man, that is one butt ugly stadium. Maybe the worst in D1 college football.
January 24th, 2012 at 9:39 PM ^
Maybe they should sell out a home game that doesn't involve Michigan first.... Screw them anyway.
January 24th, 2012 at 9:45 PM ^
Looks good
January 24th, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
about RR threads, why the fuck is there a thread on scoreboards being installed at spartan stadium. who gives a shit. this has nothing to do with Meechigan.
Please delete.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:35 PM ^
At a time when the University of Michigan spends hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year advertising the fact that it's a global educational institution that is busy establishing connections with people and institutions all over the world, we have supposed fans of that UM's football team whining over posts about a competing institution hardly an hour away.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
I want to know what Rich Rod thinks about the new scoreboards at Michigan State. Rumor has it that Urban Meyer's obvious cheating will be reported on them as will live footage of the Sandusky trial.
There. I think I covered all the favorite non-Michigan popular board topics.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:38 PM ^
Is Yuri Wright gonna be at the announcement?
January 25th, 2012 at 7:18 AM ^
the latest Jersey Shore episode
January 24th, 2012 at 10:32 PM ^
Sparty can't read.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:45 PM ^
Like putting make-up on your ass. The scoreboards and video boards look ok....but terribly out of place. The rest of the stadium is so shitty, old, etc. They should update the rest of the dump first. Maybe put a real surface since they have proven THEY can't even grow and maintain grass well.
But yes, let's put new boards in.
I loved it when they had their football schedule,along with phone number for tix, on mountain dew pop cans......pathetic.
January 25th, 2012 at 5:21 AM ^
With regards to the turf, what are you referencing? They just got new turf this year, and it takes a couple years to fully take hold...
January 25th, 2012 at 7:16 AM ^
out of the buckeye book of tricks too
January 25th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
Simply put, a grass field is an inferior playing surface. Have played on grass and field turf, and the turf is far surperior......less injury, better drainage, more consistent surface, easier upkeep.
Didn't know you got new grass...was at a high school playoff game there and the field/stadium was awful ...a big ten disgrace. We have small high schools around here with better playing surfaces and nicer looking stadiums, seating, and concessions. I am not a picky eater, but the food even sucked.
Maybe this version of your turf will be better....we'll see. Nice scoreboards, now fix the rest of it.
January 30th, 2012 at 8:51 PM ^
FWIW, Spartan Stadium had all of it's grass removed or destroyed during the U2 concert last summer. Part of the contract was that U2 paid for new grass to be installed. That grass was grown in Colorado (I believe from the same plots of land that grow ND's grass), shipped in cold trucks rolled up strip by strip up to Michigan, and then laid out over the summer. Yes, the summer, as in little to no rain. If you recall this past summer had a wet July and then nada. The school was worried about it's quality going into the season. It proved serviceable but as the season wore on the grass wore down, which is why it looked so ratty at the end. Give it a year or two to really grow and flourish and it will look fine. Certainly better than some NFL fields (PIttsburgh comes to mind).
So in short, don't worry about MSU, kthanks.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:58 PM ^
Can't we just give them our old ones? That's what big brothers do.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:59 PM ^
Haha, how'd that game work out for them? Spartan revisionist history.
January 25th, 2012 at 12:10 AM ^
to change them every couple of years?
January 25th, 2012 at 1:04 AM ^
I'll give 'em this, those mockups make the actual functional part of the scoreboard (i.e., time, scores, timeouts, etc.) look infinitely better and user-friendly than what our boards finally ended up with this year.
I get the idea behind the eye-popping graphics and the size of it all, but at the end of the day, a scoreboard is a scoreboard, and should be able to give me that kind of stuff in a decent format.
That being said, I love when Sparty gets a chip on their shoulder and has to do something because we just did.
January 25th, 2012 at 5:23 AM ^
You mean like when we approved our addition? Er...no...wait...MSU did that first...that's right.
January 30th, 2012 at 8:54 PM ^
sorry, see below.
January 25th, 2012 at 7:21 AM ^
...because trash woud still be flying around into your face.
January 25th, 2012 at 7:45 AM ^
We need to slap little sister back into her place at the bottom of the pile
January 25th, 2012 at 8:32 AM ^
Ads for the new score board are already paid for, they've been leased for the next millennia by defense attorneys from Ingham county and non-flame retardant couch from True Valve.
January 25th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
I just found this rendering of what Spartan Stadium will look like once the new score boards are added:
Now if only they had enough money in the budget to make the rest of the stadium look nice.
January 25th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
good thing you have that great sense of humor. oh wait...
January 25th, 2012 at 1:46 PM ^
January 25th, 2012 at 2:06 PM ^
The front is a hard leather piece common for the day. They do have a single "wing" running down their helmet, but they have that in the modern age as well. If you're going to say MSU had winged helmets before we did, you also have to claim that they currently wear winged helmets.
As to the other things, think what you will, but I know that they weren't the first to either play football at night or hockey outdoors (an NHL match was even staged outdoors in 1991).
January 27th, 2012 at 3:58 PM ^
beachbum69, who is this "us" you refer to?
January 30th, 2012 at 10:34 AM ^
This is cool news. That being said, how in the hell does it stir up the hornets nest in Ann Arbor...? Michigan State making upgrades to their facilities automatically means that they want to be like Michigan? What about the other 300+ college football programs in the nation... are they copying Michigan too? Albion College built a new scoreboard too; are they clearly trying to mimick Michigan as well? That's just ignorant.
Michigan State made upgrades to Case Hall -- the hall that almost all of the student athletes live in as underclassmen -- just recently as well. These are recruiting tools as well as evolutionary adjustments. Michigan State's not making upgrades to their facilities and campus to mimick Michigan... they're making upgrades to their facilities and campus because they feel it's necessary and beneficial to do so.