Gies Memorial Stadium
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KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Bases on his avatar, I've always pictured FOTN as Charlie, so this was appreciated.
It’s a helluva lot cheaper and easier to replace a scoreboard than change an entire section of the stadium.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
... But please tell me any real renovation of Memorial Stadium will start with fixing the Horseshoe!
They turned the Eyenet Cam towards the video board demo.
although technology is moving so fast that a new scoreboard might be outdated in just a few years, i
would guess with a little planning, a scoreboard could be relocated onto any renovation.
I'm OK with the scoreboard being improved first. That said, I do hope people continue to show up (and the students stay) so we increase capacity without decreasing occupancy.
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
Isnt part of all this for next year us getting those new led lights that can be turned off & on after a TD or other big moments? TBH I kinda hate those. Guess I'm just an old guy. It also seems a liability just waiting to happen when someone faceplants walking to the bathroom when the lights go suddenly dark.
217sports
- Springfield
I know we all want and the stadium needs a renovation of some sort on the horseshoe, and yes things could be better on the East side and with the Student section. If we had unlimited money we could do it. But if we were to have a multiple large projects then it's eventually going to come back on the fans to help pay for it. Our games are so affordable and there's something to be said about that. It may not be perfect but the value we have right now is crazy
Around the nation most renovations are all geared towards the big spenders (another reason why more west renovations are more likely than anything to the east IMO) and the die hard fans are being priced out. The scoreboard seems like a resonable cost to hold fans over vs 300m+ to completely renovate the south. Then personally I could see a North end zone renovation to cater to those big donors potentially more likely since they will be the ones helping pay for a lot of it. If it means that tickets stay affordable, I wouldn't mind that at all
Around the nation most renovations are all geared towards the big spenders (another reason why more west renovations are more likely than anything to the east IMO) and the die hard fans are being priced out. The scoreboard seems like a resonable cost to hold fans over vs 300m+ to completely renovate the south. Then personally I could see a North end zone renovation to cater to those big donors potentially more likely since they will be the ones helping pay for a lot of it. If it means that tickets stay affordable, I wouldn't mind that at all
Ditto, how could there not be something published in the public domain?
Homecoming 2019
- Chicago
ok now do the NEZ stands
69' tall video LED board. Not sure what's kosher to share on mockups but it shows video edge to edge
I'm guessing Circuit City.
Maybe a dedicated Illini fan will win the Powerball lottery. If it were me, my priorities would be family, St. Judes, Shriners, various other charities, complete stadium reno and last but not least a new set of golf clubs for me.
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
Hopefully not TEMU . . .
69’ tall…you must be talking about the SEZ board. No chance they are putting one that big over the student section.
I have yet to see anywhere official confirm what is or is not being put in the NEZ. A while back somebody shared the clipping below from a press release in June. It just says “new board” and was preceded by reference to “videoboard” and “ribbon boards.” So it leaves it up to us, the reader, to interpret what they are talking about.
I’m sure it’s going to be a videoboard of some sort. But it might just be the same size and format as what was there before, but it will now have the capability of showing scrolling ads, MAKE SOME NOISE messages, etc.
My hope is that it’s a small-ish video board that is big enough to at least show replays for those of us in the Horseshoe. I have my doubts though. If what is going there is anything substantial, they would have said that or shown a rendering of it by now. Plus with how the NEZ stands are constructed, I’m not sure they can put something up there with much weight without needing to add support pillars. And that’s already ~60 ft off the ground.
My guess is that it’s a ribbon board similar to what Purdue put over its north end zone stands a few years ago.
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