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re: This is why people are bitching about out scoreboard…
Posted on 9/22/09 at 12:49 pm to Coon
Posted on 9/22/09 at 12:49 pm to Coon
If you look at the two pictures above of the new board and the old board, all of the ads are the same size. I'm sure those companies have contracts in place that guarantee them certain square footage of ad space. Hopefully, once these contracts expire, the whole screen will be used for showing game video...but I guess that's wishful thinking.
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Posted on 9/22/09 at 1:16 pm to jefftizz
i'm not a huge fan of the new scoreboard either. the advertisements are way too big and i had alot of trouble reading the downs, yards, and timeouts. i had no problem reading coca-cola, cox, capital one, and mcdonalds. the screen seems a little bigger but it too has ads from time to time. the things i look at a "scoreboard" for are very hard to read in my opinion. its nothing but digital ads. lsu definitely needs to change this.
Posted on 9/22/09 at 1:25 pm to jefftizz
Why do some of you assume that corporate sponsorship is needed to have a nice scoreboard? There was a point in time where corporate sponsorship was not the norm. Case in point: the Superdome, the Astro-dome, Yankee Stadium. Built without corporate sponsorship. Yet now we have: Landshark Stadium, Invesco Field at Mile High, FedEx Stadium.
Teams make you believe that improvements cannot be done without corporate sponsorship, but that is bullshite. That is just extra revenue in their pockets.
Tiger Stadium was built without corporate sponsorship. LSU had uniforms before the NIKE swoosh was placed on it. Coaches wore LSU gear before being decked out in NIKE apparel. And LSU had a scoreboard before COKE and COX put there shite all over it.
If you actually believe that LSU could not have come up with $7 million to pay for a replay board you are mistaken. Those kinds of projects are paid out over time. That scoreboard is good for 10 years, minimum. That's $700,000 per year. They could have increased the ticket prices by $1.00 and paid for that board. Hell they could pay for that board with the sale of their $5.00 cokes. The kind of revenue that LSU generates through ticket prices, suites, concessions, LSU gear sales, etc. during one game is probably mind numbing.
God forbid the athletic administration does something solely for the benefit of the fan; to enhance the fan's overall experience.
All the while, they reduce elbow room, increase prices on everything, decrease the size of the student section and reduce the size of the replay screen to accommodate the "necessary" sponsorship.
Teams make you believe that improvements cannot be done without corporate sponsorship, but that is bullshite. That is just extra revenue in their pockets.
Tiger Stadium was built without corporate sponsorship. LSU had uniforms before the NIKE swoosh was placed on it. Coaches wore LSU gear before being decked out in NIKE apparel. And LSU had a scoreboard before COKE and COX put there shite all over it.
If you actually believe that LSU could not have come up with $7 million to pay for a replay board you are mistaken. Those kinds of projects are paid out over time. That scoreboard is good for 10 years, minimum. That's $700,000 per year. They could have increased the ticket prices by $1.00 and paid for that board. Hell they could pay for that board with the sale of their $5.00 cokes. The kind of revenue that LSU generates through ticket prices, suites, concessions, LSU gear sales, etc. during one game is probably mind numbing.
God forbid the athletic administration does something solely for the benefit of the fan; to enhance the fan's overall experience.
All the while, they reduce elbow room, increase prices on everything, decrease the size of the student section and reduce the size of the replay screen to accommodate the "necessary" sponsorship.
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