As reported over the weekend, basic turf is in with numbers, outer areas, etc. still to go. Big trucks outside this morning idling with huge rolls of something (outer green?). Also, north end stairs now poured, north scoreboard hung, etc.

Great pictures, thanks! And keep them coming!

Thank you for the photos! With the webcam down again, I miss my morning "fix" of stadium progress.

I like the lights lining the outer rim of the stadium. Those are gonna look great in the evening/night.

I wonder if they will put some "filler" around the video screens so they won't look like they jut out so far from the scoreboard structure itself. Or maybe they actually will be pushed back further into the structure than currently shown.

Anyway, great pics, thanks for the update!

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Does the size of the screen look adequate?

Great pics! Thanks for the update!

calfanz;841915947 said:

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Does the size of the screen look adequate?

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They definitely aren't going to be large. given the actual number of meaningful replays compared to the amount of crap they put on the old screen, I'd just assume they spend money elsewhere, as larger video boards would run millions and millions more. At least they fit the character of the stadium now. They just need better resolution and more brightness than the old single board.

calfanz;841915947 said:

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Does the size of the screen look adequate?

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They're apparently 22 feet tall by 40 feet wide per this previous thread: http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59104.

I, like many others, wish that we didn't have to make the video screen concession to the hill people, and that we could install a board like the one at the Rose Bowl, which has phenomenal video quality and is not obscenely large (30x77 per this informative Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_scoreboards_in_NCAA_college_football). But I'll take 22 by 40, as it'll undoubtedly be nicer than what we previously had.

ColoradoBear1;841915951 said:

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They definitely aren't going to be large. given the actual number of meaningful replays compared to the amount of crap they put on the old screen, I'd just assume they spend money elsewhere, as larger video boards would run millions and millions more. At least they fit the character of the stadium now. They just need better resolution and more brightness than the old single board.

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I walked by the stadium on Saturday (no screens had been put up yet), and the space for where the screens will go is more than adequate. It won't wow you, but they will be good. The pictures do not do them justice - it's much larger in person.

grandmastapoop;841915958 said:

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I walked by the stadium on Saturday (no screens had been put up yet), and the space for where the screens will go is more than adequate. It won't wow you, but they will be good. The pictures do not do them justice - it's much larger in person.

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Thanks poop.

Golden One;841915938 said:

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Thank you for the photos! With the webcam down again, I miss my morning "fix" of stadium progress.

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Seconded - great to have these photos to look at. Thank you very much!

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The screen will be 100% usable for replays. So the stats etc can be taken down to show a "large sized" replay and then returned to normal.

Am I the only one who looks at the spelling and number sequence to make sure we do not have a "who are the chefs?" moment?

socalBear23;841915976 said:

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Am I the only one who looks at the spelling and number sequence to make sure we do not have a "who are the chefs?" moment?

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