re: This is why people are bitching about out scoreboard…

What pisses me off is certain parts of the screen go black like the pixels went out. It doesn't happen all the time, but usually at some point during the games i will look up and there will be blocks that are just blacked out.

No I didn't boom my own comment I must have left my login up somewhere honestly.

But what exactly has the athletic department done wrong that makes them imbeciles? What haven't they thought about? Are we talking about the athletic department that has a sports program regarded as one of the best in the country? I'm just checking because it seems like they're so inept they shouldn't be able to figure out how to continually be as successful as they have been. They're obviously doing something right.

By my calculations, us folks at LaTech have larger video than you guys too. Sure, your "screen" is larger, but the ads take up so much space that your video is over 100 square feet smaller than ours. :D It's okay to hate me, because we ARE an in-state "RIVAL," right? Oh that's right, we're just in the WAC... Go Dawgs!

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Isn't there some other way to advertise in that huge stadium? We put in a couple ribbon boards to handle the advertisements in Ruston, so that we'd have the whole videoboard for nothing but video. LSU's got WAYYYYYYYY more resources than we do at Tech, so I'd be surprised if the administration there couldn't come up with some better way to please its fans.

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We do have ribbon boards on facades of the upper deck which constantly run ads (scores/stats sometimes, but the majority is ads) as well as back-lit ad boards on the sides of those. We also have more ads on the south endzone fence splitting the upper and lower sections. When it's all running ads, TS looks like a nascar.

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Sometimes I think we have imbeciles working in the athletic dept. They don't fricking think.

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I know most of you aren't but this is what I was referring to. My bad I forgot to quote.

I just think everyone needs to take in to account the fact that maybe they are reasons that they have the logo that large and that maybe they can't cut them down. If people want a different technology with the ads they need to give the guys time to figure out the different ways to use the board. It's probably an interesting adjustment from the old ones.

Ahhhhh yes, I didn't realize the number I used for you guys' board was after the stats line had been taken out of the equation. I see now. Ours still LOOKS bigger....... in our smaller stadium. Haha! Oh well, maybe your administration can find a way financially down the line to where they can reduce the ad space on the screen. I know you guys don't care, but I wish we could get a better screen in Independence Stadium, since that's like our alternate home field. That place is BUSH LEAGUE.

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iluvdatiger

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Psssst. Want to trade seats?

so rather than reading through this whole thread has anyone emailed the athletic department or whoever is in charge asking what the plans are for the board?

"Thank you for your email. We have some existing multi-year sponsor
agreements in place that require exposure on our scoreboards. We must
honor those contracts at this time. Mississippi State did not have a
pre-existing board and therefore had no advertising restrictions.

The video area we have created on the new north board is considerably
larger than the video area on the south board. And by investing in a
new video panel that covers the entire north board, it gives us
flexibility for video productions we have never had in the past.

The current configuration gives us an opportunity to provide a new video
experience for the fans while honoring our sponsor agreements which
provide tremendous revenue for the athletics program. We always work to
improve the in-game experience for our fans and this new board gives us
the opportunity to improve that experience now and in new ways in the
future.

Thank you for taking the time to write, and thank you for your support
of Tiger Athletics.

Herb Vincent
Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Communications/
Sr. Associate Athletic Director
LSU"