First Visit To Ford Stadium

[Waldorf]

Just got back from the Tom Landry Classic. The new scoreboard looks nice. The volume of commercials is still to loud. The sound track was the best I've heard, but the still play over the bands. The score keeper had the possession marker on the wrong team most of the game.

[Dement-ed]

Hopefully those issues won't carry over to our games, since I think the high schools staffed all of those positions.
Or at least I hope they did.

[GeorgiaMustang]

Having these high school games first is nice since it allows us the time to make adjustments to the sound and video playback. I'm sure it'll all be worked out before we play UAB.

[SMU89]

Spoke with someone who attended the HP game. Asked him about the HD board. Said it looked good but wasn't sure if the cameras were HD. Maybe we don't allow others to use our equipment?

He said the advertisements looked better than camera shots. I asked if there was an ad for SMU football --- NO.

This makes no sense. Great to have people in our stadium and understand they have sponsors, but we need to reserve 3-4 ad spots to run a clip promoting SMU Football whenever someone uses our facility.

[lwjr]

Great to have people in our stadium and understand they have sponsors, but we need to reserve 3-4 ad spots to run a clip promoting SMU Football whenever someone uses our facility.[/quote]

Knowing how backwards the NCAA and UIL can be, It would not surprise me if that would fall under the category of illegal recruiting in their eyes.

[ponyboy]

I live oh about one and quarter miles north of campus and I could hear the PA system at Ford. That was a first -- I thought there were people talking in my back yard.

Must've been pretty loud.

[docabel]

I was at the HP game and my thoughts were.

1. Volume of the announcer was spot on. I could hear it well anywhere in the stadium I was with no echoes, etc.

2. Volume of the commercials was almost twice as loud and way over the top. My first reaction to the sound was much like on Mavericks games on channel 21, when the Ford truck commercial would blast you out of a slumber.

3. Hopefully we will have more sponsors/ads, because if I was actually looking forward to the 50th showing of the Powerade commercial, only because that meant that the "Tech and Talk" commmercial was over.

4. The scoreboard is impressive. Can't really comment on whether or not the cameras were HD, but the picture was quite clear. The biggest difference I thought was that all the cameras were either on the field, or on tripods in the stands. No high shots like you would traditionally see on TV, etc. The ability to subdivide the screen as needed was nice(ie, having the school mascots listed by the score)

5. I especially liked the new field level scoreboard in the NorthEast endzone. It had all the information you would need without having to turn around when the play was in the north side. I never did venture into the sun on the west side, but did anyone see if there was a similar scoreboard on the east side?

All in all, a major upgrade from last year. My main issue would be the volume of commercials. Hope someone from SMU sees this and makes some adjustments before UAB.

[Diamond Girl]

The new scoreboard is very impressive. The students (those who attend) will be able to see what's happening on the field from their end-zone seats. It's great the visitors have better seats than our own students.

[CalallenStang]

The new scoreboard is very impressive. The students (those who attend) will be able to see what's happening on the field from their end-zone seats. It's great the visitors have better seats than our own students.

The visitors don't. They just buy all of the east side reserved that are supposed to be home tickets.

[CalallenStang]

A more updated seating chart: