re: Tiger Stadium board - preview of in-game scoreboard

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It’s over 30% taller than the old screen.

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that’s not saying much considering how small the old one was. It’s a very timid increase in size from what I see.

Well, I think we have to see it in person during a game before we can truly give an honest opinion

Just fricking horrific

LSU is so god damn bad at everything project related.

I keep saying I want a bathroom renovation for the south end zone where k sit but maybe I don’t. They would likely frick that up

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I’m also not sure why people would expect an entire 152’x37’ screen to be covered by actual gameplay in the first place. Aspect ratios are a thing. Video shot in 16:9, with a screen height of 37’, would be about 66’ wide. That’s roughly 40% of the new 152’ screen width. Which looks like… about what they used.

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Do you buy tvs and only use 40% of the screen?

I'm fine with the stats and all on the screen. I just don't understand the point of spending money on an expensive arse video board for ads. Go print out some bill board crap and put the stupid OLOL and Coke and FootPenis Whitney Bank signs on that.

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Do you buy tvs and only use 40% of the screen?

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Well no, but I also don’t have to have separate room for the score, clock, stats, ads, etc. on my TV at home.

Since it’s Friday and I didn’t really feel like accomplishing anything at work this morning anyway, I took a look at how the overall usage compares to the old video board. I loaded pictures of both into Bluebeam and scaled them to known measurements so that they can be overlaid.

First thing I noticed is that the published measurements for the old video board only include the center part, not the static ads on each side:



Note that the LSU logos at the bottom of the static ads are covering speakers. I’m going to count both the static ads and the LSU logos under them as “ads/unused space” moving forward, because that’s what it is.

So here is the layout we’ve seen for the new board compared to the old one (when accounting for the additional space where the ads were located):

New Board


Old Board


And here is an overall size comparison between the two, since I (rather stupidly) didn’t capture the two images above in the same screenshot and I’m now realizing they might get resized in folks’ browsers:



And here is how the individual sections compare. Note that in some cases (such as the ads/unused space) I had to rearrange since it was hard to compare them otherwise. But the the sizes of the individual squares are unchanged:







Ironically, the unused/ad space actually increased the least. This is largely because of the space under the static ads previously that couldn’t be used at all.

Meanwhile the majority of the added space went towards giving better stats & information. This is a great thing IMO.

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I just don't understand the point of spending money on an expensive arse video board for ads.

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I find it pretty funny that people are complaining about spending money on ad space when it’s the one part of the video board that literally pays for itself.

Anyhow, I should probably do some actual work at some point today.

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hate to be negative but it's a really shitty design. Should have been higher and narrower for use with true replays and such rather than long and skinny to accommodate digital ads/score/playcount. Seems like a waste to go this direction when it could have been twice as big of a viewing area had they gone more vertical

100% agree. It definitely needed to be taller- it’s disproportionately too wide for the height- the actual screen is no bigger that the old one it appears especially with the static graphics on the side that will be up for the vast majority of the time. . Oh well.

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Agree, but I guess we'll have to wait and see how they actually use it in game.

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Put ads on the speaker covers and free up board space.

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Always wondered why they didn't do that. The NC/SECCG years can be displayed in the same manner as the retired numbers if they feel the need to do so in addition to the flagpoles.

They look like lights are you meaning the choreographed show?

I'm curious how the speakers are going to sound compared to the old ones. I was under the impression the acoustics couldn't improve due to the layout of the stadium, but hopefully the sound quality is better. The previous speakers would suffocate every song with excessive bass.