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(04-29-2019 12:17 PM)monarx Wrote:  https://pilotonline.com/sports/college/o...5fc1c.html

A couple of new things about the stadium. It appears they have removed the giant big blue logo graphic and adjacent shield graphics that were behind the press box. I think thats a shame as it really branded the stadium nicely were impressive and made it very festive. That was one of my favorite parts of the scaled back design. They've replaced that (from the renderings) with a tiny ODU logo on the back of the press box and the ugly crown on the top side of the GDB. Not pleased with that.

The addition of the scoreboard this year could be good news or bad news. If its a great scoreboard I will welcome it. But if its going in the same location, then I guess it will likely be about the same size. Which is unimpressive. It also means it will likely not be elevated over the end zone any time soon. Which makes me think we may not get the new end zone in the next year or two as hoped. Am I reading too much into this? I keep thinking a high tech horizontal scoreboard elevated over a nice north end zone complex is the only thing keeping this stadium from being able to compete quite nicely with many G5 facilities.