Eck Stadium enters the video age on Friday when its new scoreboard debuts. Also, the statistical age and movie night.
It is quite an upgrade towering over left field.
Sure, the old scoreboard played video. The video was standard definition and on a screen so small (13 feet by 20 feet) that the images barely registered with fans sitting 400 feet away. The new Daktronics scoreboard is 1,300 square feet of high-definition video space.
“You can read everything — it’s legible,” WSU director of marketing Kayla Blanding said. “The best part for me is getting to see a huge intro video.