Whoa, Man, That Thing Is Huge

Under construction: The biggest HD screen in the world. At least for a short time. Those little black specks in the middle of the picture are construction workers.

Alternate title for this post: "Texas Excess."

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By Matt Wright in Arts & Entertainment on August 1, 2006 9:28 AM 0 Comments

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kenneth

Whine whine, bitch bitch. None of this is taxpayer funded. If you people are so worried in underfunding of higher education in Texas, complain to your representatives in the Lege. Don't carp about some stupid scoreboard.

matt wright

Yeah...while I agree with the comments above -- although the LCD-WMD connection is a tiny bit of a stretch -- I gotta admit: this thing's going to be pretty damn cool when it's up and running.

anon

That's just a small chunk of their $93 million dollar per year budget. That thing will be around for at least 5 years...maybe. Just think what UT could do for so many programs in Austin if only they didn't have to pay their football players so much. Can't they just make it an even $90 mil and give the other $3.1 mil to some local charities or something?

Aaron

Do I think we need to spend this kind of money on a scoreboard? No. Do I think it's crazy to do so? Yes. Do I really think they would spend that money on education? No. Do I realize how much money football brings in and that all of the money they are spending on this they generated? Yes. Do I like to ask myself questions and answer them myself? Ironically, no.

nannyboo

jim hightower recently wrote a great piece on this monstrosity:

http://www.jimhightower.com/node/5823

austingal

Wow - I can't think of a better way to WASTE EIGHT MILLION dollars. Oh yeah, i can, invading a sovern nation on baseless claims of WMD and then proceeding to spend 1 BILLION a month when people in america don't have health insurance. Way to go UT you are right up there with W in my book of idiots.