It’s official: South end of Memorial Stadium will be fitted with a new video display in time for the 2013-14 football season.
The HD display, which was built by Brookings, S.D.,-based company Daktronics, will measure 36-by-96 feet, compared with the current display that is 22-by-39 feet.
The Illinois athletic department unveiled the plan early September, and the University board of trustees approved the $6.7 million project at its meeting later that month.
Directly below the display, Illinois plans to install a custom scoreboard that will show fans in-game statistics. That same scoreboard, without the video component, will be mounted above the north end zone.
A 50-foot ribbon display below the scoreboard will be also installed to show additional game information, along with two 420-foot LED ribbon displays between seating decks on each side of the field.
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“Our video displays and added ribbon boards will now be visible by almost every seat in the stadium and will allow us to provide more statistics, out-of-town scores and event information to everyone in attendance,” Illinois athletic director Mike Thomas said in a statement.
Also, a custom Daktronics audio system will be integrated with the video display and scoreboard.
