BadlandsGrizFan said:bgbigdog said:
Ummm no...you guys forgot all the money the cat boosters raised to install the Light Brite system in 2011.
Sorry Badlands, you beat me to it. Bastard!
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New Scoreboard and Sound System
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Sorry Badlands, you beat me to it. Bastard!
BadlandsGrizFan
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Ursa Major said:BadlandsGrizFan said:bgbigdog said:
Ummm no...you guys forgot all the money the cat boosters raised to install the Light Brite system in 2011.
Sorry Badlands, you beat me to it. Bastard!
Haha..its all good...I've been on this board for 2 years now and still haven't figured out how to attach photos
BadlandsGrizFan
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GlacierGrizX said:
Plan is to build another mountain on the west side of the stadium....I believe the university included it in the 300 million year outlook. I believe staff does however have renderings and is currently showing it to recruits!
BadlandsGrizFan said:Ursa Major said:BadlandsGrizFan said:bgbigdog said:
Ummm no...you guys forgot all the money the cat boosters raised to install the Light Brite system in 2011.
Sorry Badlands, you beat me to it. Bastard!
Haha..its all good...I've been on this board for 2 years now and still haven't figured out how to attach photos
For pictures on the web, I copy the website address, then click on "Img" on the reply menu, then paste the pictures website address in the middle of the "Img" formula: [img]http//www.HERE[/img]
It's not perfect, I heard Mr. T came up with and implemented the idea during one of his far too frequent benders.
For pictures from my own computer/phone, I use this: http://postimage.org/
Hope that helps!
GlacierGrizX
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http://missoulian.com/sports/colleg...cle_20126dab-e38a-535e-9eb9-feccd9b0e763.html
Along with hindsight, GrizVision is about to be 20/20.
Washington-Grizzly Stadium's south end zone video board screen is getting a makeover this spring, the latest game-day viewing experience upgrade to the home of the Montana football program. The current Jumbotron, one that has been perched above the stadium for 14 seasons, will be replaced by a larger, high-definition 16mm LED screen.
"As soon as (graduation) commencement is over, they're gonna get after it, get 'er down and get 'er up," said Chuck Maes, Montana's associate athletic director for internal operations. "Hopefully by the end of June it's all done."
Neither Maes nor athletic director Kent Haslam had specific dimensions for the new screen, which is being financed at no cost to the university by Learfield Sports, Montana's multimedia rights holder. Maes said that while the height will remain the same, about 14 feet of extra screen space will be added to the width.
For scale, that would cover the area to the left and right of the video board currently occupied by massive speakers for the stadium's sound system, which is also being upgraded. The width of the current board is slightly more than the distance between the hash marks on the field -- 40 feet.
The installation will also lower the screen to where the current amber-lit scoreboard is "so it will be a lot better viewing angle," Maes said.
To each side, where there are currently rotating tri-vision signs reserved for advertising, smaller rectangle video boards will be used for advertisements or game-day graphics.
The upgrade to GrizVision is the third technological facelift to the stadium in three offseasons. Grizzly Sports Properties, UM's division of Learfield, was responsible for installing LED ribbon video boards in the north end zone in September 2014 and then along the east face of the stadium last August.
"You always try to do things to keep your entertainment value up," Maes said. "Obviously the football team and the game is the main thing, but you've got to have a lot of really positive secondary experiences out there to go along with it."
Of course the purpose of the installation is two-fold, giving Grizzly Sports Properties and Learfield improved inventory for in-game advertisements as well.
The current screen remains the property of Learfield but is near the end of its usage life, Maes said. Though it's been towering over Montana's football field since 2002, the board is several years older than that even.
It previously resided in Times Square in New York City, flashing advertisements down at passing tourists at the turn of the millennium before being donated to Montana because of some fortunate -- and unfortunate -- circumstances.
"When 9/11 hit, all advertising kinda went south and they were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month just to have that board hanging on a building and they weren't selling any advertisements," Maes said.
Some local supporters held the ownership interests in the screen, Maes said, and they shipped it across the country in the summer of 2002 following the Grizzlies' second national championship victory the year prior.
And it's been a workhorse ever since, never missing a game. Maes credited Curt Jacobson of Corporate Technology Group, a networking and IT solutions business in Missoula, for keeping the board up to speed for nearly 15 years.
"He's probably gotten a few extra years out of that for us based on his tender love and care," Maes praised.
The Times Square board represented Montana's first foray into video screens. The program's previous board was re-purposed as the scoreboard that now hangs below the GrizVision screen, a matrix board of lighted bulbs. That board dated back to around UM's first national title in 1995, Maes estimated, when a smaller square matrix board was upgraded with color bulbs.
Just behind GrizVision, final preparations are underway before the ground breaking of the Washington-Grizzly Champions Center project. The new home for football locker rooms, meeting rooms and weight training facilities for all of UM's sports teams is expected to be completed by the fall of 2017.
Along with hindsight, GrizVision is about to be 20/20.
Washington-Grizzly Stadium's south end zone video board screen is getting a makeover this spring, the latest game-day viewing experience upgrade to the home of the Montana football program. The current Jumbotron, one that has been perched above the stadium for 14 seasons, will be replaced by a larger, high-definition 16mm LED screen.
"As soon as (graduation) commencement is over, they're gonna get after it, get 'er down and get 'er up," said Chuck Maes, Montana's associate athletic director for internal operations. "Hopefully by the end of June it's all done."
Neither Maes nor athletic director Kent Haslam had specific dimensions for the new screen, which is being financed at no cost to the university by Learfield Sports, Montana's multimedia rights holder. Maes said that while the height will remain the same, about 14 feet of extra screen space will be added to the width.
For scale, that would cover the area to the left and right of the video board currently occupied by massive speakers for the stadium's sound system, which is also being upgraded. The width of the current board is slightly more than the distance between the hash marks on the field -- 40 feet.
The installation will also lower the screen to where the current amber-lit scoreboard is "so it will be a lot better viewing angle," Maes said.
To each side, where there are currently rotating tri-vision signs reserved for advertising, smaller rectangle video boards will be used for advertisements or game-day graphics.
The upgrade to GrizVision is the third technological facelift to the stadium in three offseasons. Grizzly Sports Properties, UM's division of Learfield, was responsible for installing LED ribbon video boards in the north end zone in September 2014 and then along the east face of the stadium last August.
"You always try to do things to keep your entertainment value up," Maes said. "Obviously the football team and the game is the main thing, but you've got to have a lot of really positive secondary experiences out there to go along with it."
Of course the purpose of the installation is two-fold, giving Grizzly Sports Properties and Learfield improved inventory for in-game advertisements as well.
The current screen remains the property of Learfield but is near the end of its usage life, Maes said. Though it's been towering over Montana's football field since 2002, the board is several years older than that even.
It previously resided in Times Square in New York City, flashing advertisements down at passing tourists at the turn of the millennium before being donated to Montana because of some fortunate -- and unfortunate -- circumstances.
"When 9/11 hit, all advertising kinda went south and they were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month just to have that board hanging on a building and they weren't selling any advertisements," Maes said.
Some local supporters held the ownership interests in the screen, Maes said, and they shipped it across the country in the summer of 2002 following the Grizzlies' second national championship victory the year prior.
And it's been a workhorse ever since, never missing a game. Maes credited Curt Jacobson of Corporate Technology Group, a networking and IT solutions business in Missoula, for keeping the board up to speed for nearly 15 years.
"He's probably gotten a few extra years out of that for us based on his tender love and care," Maes praised.
The Times Square board represented Montana's first foray into video screens. The program's previous board was re-purposed as the scoreboard that now hangs below the GrizVision screen, a matrix board of lighted bulbs. That board dated back to around UM's first national title in 1995, Maes estimated, when a smaller square matrix board was upgraded with color bulbs.
Just behind GrizVision, final preparations are underway before the ground breaking of the Washington-Grizzly Champions Center project. The new home for football locker rooms, meeting rooms and weight training facilities for all of UM's sports teams is expected to be completed by the fall of 2017.
mtman59808
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Why can't there be section of the stadium that has a board that gives continual updates to other games going on around the Big Sky and nation. Supposedly the new ribbon boards were for that purpose, but basically they are used just for more advertising. If they do show scores, it is very brief and if you miss it you won't see it a second time. ff:
ff:KoolMoeDee
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mtman59808 said:Why can't there be section of the stadium that has a board that gives continual updates to other games going on around the Big Sky and nation. Supposedly the new ribbon boards were for that purpose, but basically they are used just for more advertising. If they do show scores, it is very brief and if you miss it you won't see it a second time.
I'd guess the answer is in who payed/owns the ribbons and new scoreboard.
MissoulaMarinerFan
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GlacierGrizX said:
Fixed it for them. [emoji6]
griz5700 said:
Every single other Learfield school. It's the same in Laramie.
Grisly Fan
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Yeah screw Learfield! Its just that kind of rampant commercialism that will destroy the NCAA (which brings us the Taxslayer Bowl, the Outback Bowl, the Russell Athletic Bowl, the GoDaddy Bowl, the Foster Farms Bowl, the Belk Bowl, the Quick Lane Bowl...) How dare Learfield take advantage of the hapless U of M AD's office and force their money into the pockets of the school. Shameful really. The government needs to fund the whole thing to get business out of the picture! Outrageous I say.griz5700 said:
mtgrizrule
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mtgriz said:
I ignore the ads. I focus on the game, and the great GRIZ we have on the field. :thumb:
garizzalies
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I thought you were talking to yourself and then I realized you are (maybe?) 2 different posters. I thought you were just bipolar for all these yearsmtgrizrule said:
Inland NW Griz
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Anyone know if this means the old scoreboard is history?
