Up in Brookings, South Dakota, Daktronics had the bid to put in the Nebraska football screen, until around February when they were undercut by a Japanese firm, Mitsubsi or Sanyo or Sony or someone like that.
If Daktronics had got the bid, they can have the screen installed within 60 days after an accepted, so it would have been competed by late May.
Since a Japanese firm is putting it in, the pieces are all coming from Tokyo, so who knows how long they will take to get to Lincoln.
Almost every other Pro and college football scoreboard in the United States over the past 6 years has been installed by Daktronics. But since this will be the largest college scoreboard in the U.S. the Japanese firm wanted the bid (along with the New York Yankees scoreboard) for name recognition purposes. They bid lower than the cost to make the scoreboard (by several million dollars) because they will make it up the difference on other projects these bragging rights create worldwide. So, although Nebraska is getting a great deal costwise on the scoreboard, I still would have liked to see the money go to South Dakota'a economy rather than Japan's economy. But heck, we buy everything else from Asia, so why not our scoreboards too. Anyway, probably more informatin than you wanted. But the scoreboard may take longer to complete than originally planned.
