Hopefully that's not a sign that over half the board will be ads at all times during the games.
Gies Memorial Stadium
movies are made in an aspect ratio that doesn’t translate to our super wide board
I have no idea how many ads they will sell , but I hardly expect they will be shown while the gsme clock is ticking
filling up that board with valid content all game long is a full time job for someone though
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
^^ Just another annoying reminder that if the appetite never arrives for some massive SEZ renovation, we can choose to make this massive scoreboard the focal point going forward, VERY cheaply bring the first row of Horseshoe seats down to field level, add some sort of wall behind the last row of the Horseshoe to help trap noise / make the stadium look more complete, wrap a bow on GMS and call it a day!
Of course, the DIA would probably elect for something cheaper than the beautiful brick / column architecture that makes the rest of the stadium so beautiful, but ... you get the point. Such a relatively tiny "project" would make Memorial Stadium look about a million times better in my book.
Then some day if we are somehow trotting out 10+ win teams like it's nothing and demand is there for like 80k seats, you can add a second deck in the same style of the rest of the stadium and, of course, you have the whole NEZ with which to work, as well.
Of course, the DIA would probably elect for something cheaper than the beautiful brick / column architecture that makes the rest of the stadium so beautiful, but ... you get the point. Such a relatively tiny "project" would make Memorial Stadium look about a million times better in my book.
Then some day if we are somehow trotting out 10+ win teams like it's nothing and demand is there for like 80k seats, you can add a second deck in the same style of the rest of the stadium and, of course, you have the whole NEZ with which to work, as well.
I really like this idea! I’m starting to resign myself to the fact that I don’t think a SEZ renovation is going to happen. I would love to be proved wrong though. If we used all of the 100 million on the SEZ what would that look like minus the big new scoreboard? With the new scoreboard doesn’t that signal that there is no long term plan for a SEZ renovation? I would have been ok with the work done in phases just as long as there is a plan. What am I missing here?
Shief
- Champaign Area
I support closing in the SEZ's lower bowl - there may need to be a middle or corner field access tunnel kept through - and some kind of brick wall at the back. If we want to keep in sound, I can see there being banners/advertisement signs on either side of the scoreboard.