Lamar University Selects Daktronics to Revamp Football Stadium

Daktronics Inc. (Brookings, SD) has been contracted by Lamar University to design, manufacture and install an integrated scoring and video-display system that will overlook the school’s home field in Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, TX. Lamar University is bringing its football program back, and the Cardinals will be playing its first game in more than 20 years this season.
A Daktronics LED video display will be installed in the north end zone. This 26 x 52-ft., high-resolution display will deliver replays, game information and sponsor messages to the fans cheering on the Cardinals in Beaumont. The video board is part of the larger scoreboard configuration that will measure 48 x 88 ft. It also incorporates a custom, numeric scoreboard, speaker cabinets with logo artwork, advertising panels, a Lamar University identification display and camera platform.
To entertain fans, Lamar University has enlisted the help of Keyframe® creative services, a Daktronics division. In addition, Daktronics is providing Lamar University with a completely updated timing and scoring system that includes the All Sport® 5000 series console, DSTI statistics interface system, the custom numeric scoreboard, a new set of delay of game clocks and four locker room clocks.
After the costs of the program skyrocketed and attendance declined, the football team was dropped from Lamar athletics in 1989. But thanks to a sizable donation from Walter Umphrey and his partners at Provost Umphrey law firm, the Cardinals football team has received a fresh start this coming year, beginning with its soon-to-be newly renovated football stadium. Lamar University kicks off its 2010 season at Lake Charles, LA, where they’ll take on the McNeese State University Cowboys.