As Conferences and programs seek every way they can to squeeze one more dollar of revenue out of fans, sponsors, and television, they’re coming up with the most ingenious of ways to turn the entire contest into a giant walking advertisement.
Behold:
Literally, you can change the whole court with the click of a button. Say, that reminds me, I know I said I wouldn’t say anything else about Hoop Dawgs, but, man, do we need a court refresh compared to what it currently looks like. Yeesh.
Anyway, there’s not much to say about this except it’s supposed to be in the name of “innovation” or something like that.
While this will be neat-o the first go around, if this gets wings, look for the court to turn into an unending commercial throughout the game where you see a different ad on half the court while action takes place.
That’s my jaded take, but it will definitely provide an opportunity to throw more variations of logos on the court throughout the game. Money, I mean, Innovation, for the win!
If they could figure out to do this on a football field, maybe they could eliminate all the TV timeouts.
Mickey does not approve of your me$$age….
And some folks will continue 18-23 year old students for “destroying the sport we loved.”
LED is f’ing amazing.
Microdot Monday is fuckin’ amazin’…..
So could the LED glass court break if there is a hard enough fall or something heavy and sharp accidentally drops onto the court?
Not if it’s designed properly. The material is plenty strong enough. Look at all those clear overlooks in the Grand Canyon, or off sky scrapers.
Surprised the backboards aren’t already flashing ads during TOs. Oh well, as long as it’s for the children.
LED is genuinely harmful to humans. https://health.ec.europa.eu/scientific-committees/easy-read-summaries-scientific-opinions/are-led-lights-safe-human-health-2_en
Read the article you linked, and I have to say “genuinely” is a misused here. Every ‘concern” used words like might, may, we don’t know for sure, etcetera, and nothing that might occur was compared with alternatives. Faux alarm.
Ignore that article and research it yourself. LED is a problem.
Dear Lord, Sweet Baby Jesus, dressed up in your little tuxedo t-shirt. Please let somebody hack the system and start broadcasting pr0n or some other nonsense during a game. Amen.
Pr0n would be funny, but the real hack would be (for example) to hack Florida’s floor with a gif of Kirby whacking a gator with a frying pan, or Auburn’s Hugh Sleeze calling Bruce Pearl dressed as a hooker (yes I know those are OBE). Hack the floor and post some shit that embarrasses the school that owns the floor.
In fact, I think we should have a full on thread of ideas for hacking floors/scoreboards at all our rivals.