Video Board Size

Mean Green Matt · May 23, 2011

I set out today to find out the true dimensions of the video board during seat selection (actually my parents seat selection, but I did join the MGC to get my first priority points )

While none of the people I asked knew the actually footage for the dimensions, It was reaffirmed that it would be the third biggest in Texas (which means at least 1500 sq. ft.). One staff member did say he though it was somewhere around 40' X 60', which would be much bigger than most of us thought. That would put us at 2400sq.ft (which would be #1 in the SBC by 800sq.ft., and bigger than the new SMU board by nearly 1,000sq.ft.).

After the selection I went out onto the deck, and the area in between the pillars appears to be AT LEAST three goal posts wide, and closer to 3.5. This would put the width of the board between 55' and 65'.

Sorry for the long post, I just figured I would give an update.

EDIT: By the way, the secondary video board in the wingzoe corner actually looks pretty impressive. It doesn't apppear to be much smaller than the video board we currently have at Fouts.

Edited May 23, 2011 by Mean Green Matt

Harry · May 23, 2011

I set out today to find out the true dimensions of the video board during seat selection (actually my parents seat selection, but I did join the MGC to get my first priority points )

While none of the people I asked knew the actually footage for the dimensions, It was reaffirmed that it would be the third biggest in Texas (which means at least 1500 sq. ft.). One staff member did say he though it was somewhere around 40' X 60', which would be much bigger than most of us thought. That would put us at 2400sq.ft (which would be #1 in the SBC by 800sq.ft., and bigger than the new SMU board by nearly 1,000sq.ft.).

After the selection I went out onto the deck, and the area in between the pillars appears to be AT LEAST three goal posts wide, and closer to 3.5. This would put the width of the board between 55' and 65'.

Sorry for the long post, I just figured I would give an update.

Good info as always Matt. Thanks for sharing!! GMG!

Mean Green Matt · May 29, 2011

The video board is 50' across. They took all the fences down, so I just went out and measured it today. In a different thread, someone seemed to think that the squares they assembled the board frame with were 8' X 8'. That could still be correct, but my measurement turned out at exactly 50'. Lets explore both scenarios.

Scenario 1: The sqares are 8' X 8'. The board is 48' X 32' for a total of 1536 sq.ft. That is good for 3rd in Texas, and 2nd in the Sun Belt (if you count the 500 sq.ft. of video advertising space on the new ULM video board).

Scenario 2: The board is exactly 50' across. That would make the height of the board 33'4", and the total square footage 1,667. That is good for 3rd in Texas 1st in the SBC.

Either way, it is legit.

UNT 90 Grad · May 30, 2011

Hey Matt. Did that account for the fact that the space above the columns will be the speaker bays and not video space?

Mean Green Matt · May 30, 2011

Hey Matt. Did that account for the fact that the space above the columns will be the speaker bays and not video space?

Yeah...the 50' is from the inside of the left column to the inside of the right column.

UNT 90 Grad · May 30, 2011

Yeah...the 50' is from the inside of the left column to the inside of the right column.

Very nice! Thanks for your reconnoissance work!

Mean Green Matt · May 30, 2011

Very nice! Thanks for your reconnoissance work!

Haha, no prob...the police were definitely keeping an eye on me though. :ph34r:

GrayEagle · May 30, 2011

The size of the large video board is 32'x 88'. How much of that is used for border is anyone's guess. Since there will be no fixed advertising on that boards most should be included in the viewing area. The maximum viewing area would be 2,816 SF.

UNT 90 Grad · May 30, 2011

The metal framing on either side of the scoreboard is intended for signage. Hopefully that reduces (or illuminates) the need for advertising on the video board.

Mean Green Matt · May 30, 2011

The metal framing on either side of the scoreboard is intended for signage. Hopefully that reduces (or illuminates) the need for advertising on the video board.

I think you mean eliminates...although illuminates does make sense when talking about a video board... :rolleyes: