Texas High School Considering $1 Million Scoreboard

May 16, 2013 /
Valley Morning Star

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/local_news/article_025853ca-b534-11e2-8518-0019bb30f31a.html

Bobby Lackey Stadium (Weslaco, Texas) could have the largest digital scoreboard at a high school stadium if a measure is approved by the district’s Board of Trustees at its next meeting.

Referring to stadiums in places like Katy and Carthage that have 43-foot screens, Steve Valdez, director of instructional television for Weslaco Independent School District, suggested at a workshop Wednesday that  Bobby Lackey Stadium go big with a 27-by-48 screen.

The current screen is 14 feet by 18 feet.

Humble has a 50-foot screen, but it’s much shorter, so in square footage, Weslaco’s would be bigger.

“They say that football in Texas is king, so we doubt that anybody else in the country would have anything larger,” Valdez said.

The average life expectancy of an LED screen, which Lackey Stadium has, is 10 years, and the current screen is eight years old, Valdez said. The current screen was erected in 2005 and cost $387,000, which was paid over five years with marketing revenue generated from the stadium.


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