Scoreboard update: UNI Preparations?

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I know I should just be grateful, but I'm a little disappointed with the huge logos on the ends. I was expecting the whole thing to be a videoboard.

Please be the only one to say that in this thread.

Have you even seen it in person?
 

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Please be the only one to say that in this thread.

Have you even seen it in person?



It is indeed awesome especially for those of us with endzone seats. I guess it was just wanting more and bigger. And with that comment I will probably open the door to the junior high locker room.
 

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I know I should just be grateful, but I'm a little disappointed with the huge logos on the ends. I was expecting the whole thing to be a videoboard.


How dare you...That was my first thought after seeing it in person and i thought the same thing. You can't mention it on here though. yes we know its 10 times better than the old one, but some of us are just surprised. Also i realize there has to be room for the speakers.
 

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It is indeed awesome especially for those of us with endzone seats. I guess it was just wanting more and bigger. And with that comment I will probably open the door to the junior high locker room.

If the entire board were a video board, it would make it the 3rd largest video board in the nation behind Texas and Miami. Iowa State has more important things to spend money on. 14th largest is more than enough.
 
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A scoreboard in the proportion of the logos + video board would look stupid. You stay somewhat close to 16:9 or it starts to look goofy as hell.
 

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I know I should just be grateful, but I'm a little disappointed with the huge logos on the ends. I was expecting the whole thing to be a videoboard.

You realize if the whole thing was a video board than we would have the biggest video board in the country....right?

It would be like buying a 60 inch flat screen TV to fit into your entertainment center (does anyone us those anymore?). Does the fact that the 60 inch not covering the whole entertainment center, make it any less impressive? No.
 

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Only took one reply for someone to complain about the scoreboard size. Wish I could say I was surprised.
 

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Only took one reply for someone to complain about the scoreboard size. Wish I could say I was surprised.

Please don't lump me with the chronic complainers. I guess I just hadn't been paying attention to the size of the actual videoboard until I clicked on the webcam. For the record, I spent the weekend bragging about it to Ohio State in-laws who were visiting. It is wonderfully huge, especially for my endzone seats, but just not as huge as I had mistakenly been thinking. I am not on CF every day and just happened on at the right/wrong time to post this observation.

It is also very cool to click on the webcam and see the videoboard working!
 

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Only took one reply for someone to complain about the scoreboard size. Wish I could say I was surprised.

The UNI stuff really isn't big news, but honestly I started the thread to get something positive on the front page to offset the big 12 a$$plosion threads. Shoulda counted on this. Dammit.

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Please don't lump me with the chronic complainers. I guess I just hadn't been paying attention to the size of the actual videoboard until I clicked on the webcam. For the record, I spent the weekend bragging about it to Ohio State in-laws who were visiting. It is wonderfully huge, especially for my endzone seats, but just not as huge as I had mistakenly been thinking. I am not on CF every day and just happened on at the right/wrong time to post this observation.

It is also very cool to click on the webcam and see the videoboard working!

Seeing it in person only does it justice. It is awesome.
 
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Please don't lump me with the chronic complainers. I guess I just hadn't been paying attention to the size of the actual videoboard until I clicked on the webcam. For the record, I spent the weekend bragging about it to Ohio State in-laws who were visiting. It is wonderfully huge, especially for my endzone seats, but just not as huge as I had mistakenly been thinking. I am not on CF every day and just happened on at the right/wrong time to post this observation.

It is also very cool to click on the webcam and see the videoboard working!


It's bigger than it looks from a webcam at an angle. Go see it for yourself and you will be surprised.
 

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Please don't lump me with the chronic complainers. I guess I just hadn't been paying attention to the size of the actual videoboard until I clicked on the webcam. For the record, I spent the weekend bragging about it to Ohio State in-laws who were visiting. It is wonderfully huge, especially for my endzone seats, but just not as huge as I had mistakenly been thinking. I am not on CF every day and just happened on at the right/wrong time to post this observation.

It is also very cool to click on the webcam and see the videoboard working!

You can still keep bragging to your OSU in-laws because it's bigger than OSU's video board. :smile:
 

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You can still keep bragging to your OSU in-laws because it's bigger than OSU's video board. :smile:

I was aware of this and enjoyed making that point to a bunch of in-laws who think Ohio State is the best at everything.
 
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I drove by today, on University going north. It is awesome. Anybody who hasn't seen it in person at least once, and says they are disappointed....is a dumb ***.
 
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The UNI stuff really isn't big news, but honestly I started the thread to get something positive on the front page to offset the big 12 a$$plosion threads. Shoulda counted on this. Dammit.

:realmad:

Sorry to crap on your thread. I appreciate the intention to be positive, so I deleted my first reply.