Out with the old: Memorial Stadium's scoreboard coming down

Construction crews remove a piece of the video board at Memorial Stadium. It will be replaced with a board roughly three times larger than the old scoreboard at a cost of $3.5 million. It will be in place for the football home opener. Taylor Stadium and Walton Track/Soccer Stadium will also receive new video boards for the 2009-2010 season.   ¦  JJ STANKEVITZ/Missourian

Crews are dismantling the scoreboard at Memorial Stadium in preparation for a new state-of-the art video display board at the north  end of the field. The new scoreboard is expected to cost $3.5 million and will be roughly three times larger than the old scoreboard, according to MU athletics department spokesman Chad Moller. The new board is expected to be in place for the first home football game on Sept. 12.