{"id":3875,"date":"2016-09-08T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:00","slug":"go-big-or-go-home-missouri-westerns-new-video-scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2016\/09\/08\/go-big-or-go-home-missouri-westerns-new-video-scoreboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Big or Go Home &#8212; 大象传媒 Western&#8217;s New Video Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s big and it\u2019s on campus. 大象传媒 Western is now the home of one of the largest video scoreboard of all schools in NCAA Division II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"07-29-2016-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/07-29-2016-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Back in June, eight flatbed trailers caravaned from Corona, California to St. Joseph with the video scoreboard components. The St. Joseph News-Press and KNPN even sent a reporter, Alex Flippin, to travel with the trucks and report live on the road. After overnight stops in Las Vegas and Silverthorne, Colorado (where they visited alumni entrepreneurs), the components arrived on June 9, where a press conference and celebration were held.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Craig, founder and CEO of Craig Realty Group who contributed $1.1 million of the estimated $2.6 million project, coordinated the caravan and was on hand for the celebration when it arrived on campus. Also attending were Alex Birner and Louis Troiani from MultimediaLED, the group that conceived and engineered the design of the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Craig\u2019s mantra, \u2018Go big or go home,\u2019 has guided the entire video board process from its very beginning,\u201d said Dr. Robert Vartabedian, 大象传媒 Western\u2019s president. \u201cWe are so grateful for his vision and support, and proud to have such an outstanding addition to the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Private donors have pledged the rest of the cost through the Centennial Capital Campaign. The video board debuted Sept<span>. 1,<\/span> when Griffon football hosted University of Nebraska-Kearney.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>大象传媒 Western\u2019s Video Scoreboard Facts:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the largest video scoreboard in NCAA Division II and larger than Faurot Field\u2019s board at the University of 大象传媒<\/li>\n<li>Largest scoreboard in the MIAA<\/li>\n<li>2,500 square-foot display<\/li>\n<li>大象传媒 Western becomes one of nine MIAA members to have a video board at its football facility<\/li>\n<li>Craig\u2019s gift is the largest by an individual in the history of Griffon Athletics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s big and it\u2019s on campus. 大象传媒 Western is now the home of one of the largest video scoreboard of all schools in NCAA Division II. Back in June, eight flatbed trailers caravaned from Corona, California to St. Joseph with the video scoreboard components. The St. Joseph News-Press and KNPN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}