New Scoreboard Renderings Released
October 18th, 2022 at 6:28 PM ^
OK, as long the extra space isn't for advertising/corporate sponsors
October 18th, 2022 at 6:55 PM ^
Glad someone else noticed this. It could always change but hopefully the AD keeps the big house ad-free as long as possible.
October 18th, 2022 at 7:36 PM ^
Visiting fans are right behind me. At least twice a season I hear that Michigan has no advertising. Shocked Dave Brandon didn't bring in ads.
October 19th, 2022 at 1:54 AM ^
Did you miss “the noodle” or “two cokes for tix” or every season ticket holder survey which is a very thinly veiled attempt to leverage people into agreeing advertising is ok (to avoid sale of first born child, or $1000/seat or some equally ridiculous Armageddon alternative they posit)?
October 18th, 2022 at 6:41 PM ^
Hopefully, it will have an emulator that makes it look like 1969...
October 18th, 2022 at 7:12 PM ^
My favorite scoreboard - I wonder where it is now. In the Bentley?
Of course it would need to be retrofitted to tell us how much longer the media time out will last - no need for that feature in 1969.
October 19th, 2022 at 11:57 AM ^
MLive has a piece with photos on the evolution of the scoreboard.
Here's that 60s-90s version as I (fondly) remember it:
October 18th, 2022 at 8:00 PM ^
That photo may be from the 1969 season but I'm quite certain we had the same scoreboard for my first game in fall 1963. Don't know when it was first erected.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:13 PM ^
IIRC, they were unchanged from about 1953 to 1996. As with most of the entire statium, aside from the field being lowered around 1990ish
October 18th, 2022 at 10:44 PM ^
The new scoreboards with the small video screens were installed for the 1998 season. 1997 was still the old boards.
October 19th, 2022 at 6:15 AM ^
The older boards were installed prior to the 1969 season and lasted until the end of the 1997 season
October 18th, 2022 at 6:56 PM ^
Could we get a dedicated section of the board that displays scores from around the country?
October 18th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^
The rendering shows that. Look at the bottom right.
October 18th, 2022 at 6:57 PM ^
My one note is that, relative to everything else, the game and play clock seem very tiny.
October 18th, 2022 at 7:08 PM ^
Why is it every time we replace the scoreboards they look like what everyone else has already had for a decade...
October 18th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
Do you really have to ask that? The motto of our athletic department should be “cutting edge but later.”
October 18th, 2022 at 7:09 PM ^
I wonder if the new boards will have the vital game statistics (score, clock, down & distance, that kind of thing) permanently showing. From the renderings it sort of looks that way. One of my pet peeves about the existing system, they'll have that information missing for stretches when they're showing replays or promotions or whatever.
October 18th, 2022 at 7:29 PM ^
Hope that somebody who gives two toots from the U is making note of the smart criticisms being offered here.
October 18th, 2022 at 7:39 PM ^
So, the same but bigger
October 18th, 2022 at 7:47 PM ^
Am I the only one who sees nothing that needs improving about the current scoreboards? Maybe they'll be great, but I have not once thought this was something that needed an upgrade.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:03 PM ^
But then you wouldn't have any material evidence of the $$$ spent on tickets (and concessions!)!
October 18th, 2022 at 8:04 PM ^
They look fine to me too.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:03 PM ^
I would rather see the open space between the scoreboards and press booths filled with new seating, and bring the capacity to 160,000, or more.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
Sounds good on paper, but the era of mega capacity expansions in sports is mostly over for now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we only see more fan comfort/experience-oriented renovations to Michigan Stadium and others from here on out.
October 18th, 2022 at 9:39 PM ^
Add the seats and keep it the same attendance and give us chairbacks and more room.
October 18th, 2022 at 10:46 PM ^
There is not, and probably never was demand for 160,000 seats in Michigan Stadium. As it is, there is barely enough infrastructure to support 110,000, when one factors in parking and traffic and sidewalks, not to mention the concourses. Will never happen, should never happen.
October 19th, 2022 at 12:27 AM ^
I have to think the University starts looking at parking ramps around Crisler, on North lots, maybe some entrepreneur can convince Pioneer to put in a ramp to capture more parking revenue.
October 19th, 2022 at 9:46 AM ^
But it's not just about physical parking spaces. It's also about the roadways to get people in and out of Ann Arbor itself. 110k strains what exists now. It isn't reasonable or safe for Michigan Stadium to expand any larger than it is today, unless that plan is to enlarging the physical seating space while making seats and rows larger at the same time, keeping the capacity more or less the same (or slightly less!).
Also, what need would Pioneer have for a huge parking deck the other 357 days of the year?
October 21st, 2022 at 11:01 PM ^
That would be sweet but I don’t think getting bigger is the thing to do anymore. More and more people realize the experience overall is honestly better at home. It’s fun to go out to games as an event but watching at home is better. It’s cheaper, more convenient, and honestly much easier to see what’s going on. Seeing it in person is cool and different, but I can’t get the tv view from a seat.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:06 PM ^
This is dumb. The incremental change here isn’t worth it. If you’re going to renovate them, make them huge.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:12 PM ^
Let's go back to this....
October 18th, 2022 at 10:32 PM ^
This scoreboard existed when I first started attending games ... roughly 1960.
Yep old guy ! Go Blue!
October 18th, 2022 at 8:18 PM ^
I'd like the whole stadium to get closed in more to lock in the sound. Not sure how to do that with a bowl stadium without making it look ugly, but I'm no architect.
October 18th, 2022 at 9:36 PM ^
Lambeau Field would be a good place to start. They did an excellent job enclosing the bowl.
October 18th, 2022 at 10:06 PM ^
Nice. Did it get louder? Definitely doesn't look ugly. With our luxury boxes already there, we don't have too much left to enclose, relatively speaking.
October 18th, 2022 at 10:35 PM ^
If they enclose the stadium, the tradition of throwing footballs that make it to the stands being thrown up the stadium and then over the top will be destroyed. Cmon - please don't ruin another Michigan football tradition !!!
Go Blue!
October 18th, 2022 at 8:24 PM ^
Too small. I like big long scoreboards. Should have them curve around the entire stadium and over the top to form a giant 4k retractable dome video screen with artificial weather machines.
October 18th, 2022 at 10:07 PM ^
Snow every OSU game and perhaps something that will give them the flu.
October 21st, 2022 at 11:51 PM ^
Fuck yeah. This is the America I want to live in
October 18th, 2022 at 8:44 PM ^
Maybe they can put cell towers on each scoreboard and we can actually get reception when we need it.
October 18th, 2022 at 8:59 PM ^
What a waste of money. Give the non-sportsball students a tuition break instead.
October 18th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
Is “3rd Downs” really a stat we keep on our scoreboard? As in, without any reference to conversion rate or anything else—just total number of third downs?
October 18th, 2022 at 10:53 PM ^
I am against any proposed scoreboard which does not provide a section displaying the scores of all BIG TEN and top 20 games constantly. At present, the display of any scores is entirely composed of the scores of BIG TEN games at halftime and one score of the Slippery Rock game at the time of the display. In other words, all of the attendees at every Michigan home game.are effectively subject to a score blackout of all other games about which Michigan fans have an interest. The Slippery Rock score, a 6-decade joke, only makes it worse (as does the MSU scoreboard which periodically throughout a game shows other relevant scores).
In the Rich Rod era, I could understand the blackout--U of M wasn't sufficiently competetive to justify showing other scores. But, on the heels of a Big Ten championship and appearance in the CFP, a full, periodically updated set of scores is entirely justifiable.
October 18th, 2022 at 11:05 PM ^
lol at people suggesting it should wrap around the top of the stadium.
that would not only be WAAAY too big, it would be hideous.
Expand the towers to the corners and maybe I can see it.
October 18th, 2022 at 11:27 PM ^
Where’s the Michigan Difference? Why not a rotating hologram midfield? Call it the Emmet Leith Memorial Scoreboard.
October 19th, 2022 at 12:07 AM ^
2011 details:
MICHIGAN STADIUM TS Sports will install new state-of-the-art LED screens in both end zones of Michigan Stadium, which will be 40 percent larger than the previous system. The new video screens will be 47 feet high and 85 feet wide and will be complete in August, prior to the 2011 football season.
The overall size of the structures will be 108 feet wide by 62 feet high, which includes the scoreboard and enclosure.
October 19th, 2022 at 12:14 AM ^
And down south in 2012 from the O-Zone:
The original scoreboard display after the 2002 renovation measured 30 feet by 90 feet. In 2012, that display was replaced by a new high definition screen measuring 40 feet by 120 feet.
sitting there Saturday, though, the scoreboard video screen seems smaller than Michigan’s in both dimensions. And there is only one.
October 19th, 2022 at 12:34 AM ^
I'm happy with anything that improves the fan experience short of those stupid flashing lights after TD's like Alabama, Tennessee, USC and several others have gone too.
Want to really improve the fan experience cut the piped in music 50%, let the band play and allow the visiting teams to bring their band.
Our scoreboards are actually huge as is, its just they're further back than any other stadium in college football because of the size of the bowl. The biggest problem with the video boards is the zoomed in frames that UM chooses to show for replays.
October 19th, 2022 at 8:23 AM ^
At first glance, I thought that they were putting a screen over top of the block M so that fans going to restrooms and concession wouldn't miss the action. Although I do think that having something like that would be cool, I would hate to cover up the block M.