The Next Big Thing: New Video Board to Transform Experience at CAU Panther Stadium

ATLANTA, Georgia -- Rising out of the south end of CAU Panther Stadium will be the next big thing for Clark Atlanta University athletics.

Big, as in large and bright.

Soon, the current scoreboard at the stadium will be coming down and a new, state-of-the-art video board will be erected in its place. The LED video screen is 27 x 42 feet with a versatile display that can be configured as a scoreboard or as a complete video board.

Panther football fans will now be able to see highlights, instant replays, promotional videos, advertising and other content on the new video board.

"The video board will provide a stirring, heart-throbbing game experience for CAU alums and supporters, will showcase the work and impact of faculty, staff and students, and positions our corporate partners to communicating with new and existing cliental," said CAU Athletic Director J Lin Dawson.

"This video board not only changes the landscape in the Atlanta University Center, but it also positions Clark Atlanta University to host regional and national events," Dawson said. "People are going to feel like they are right in the action. It will be an entirely new experience."

Workers have already started the rewiring of the old scoreboard connecting to the stadium press box in preparation for the new board that will go up in the far south corner of the stadium in the coming weeks.

The video board is just one of the more than 30 facility improvements that have taken place across the CAU athletics landscape over the past several months. L.S. Epps Gymnasium has seen everything from a new floor, new bleachers, new goals, weight room, team room and locker rooms for all of the Panthers and Lady Panthers sports teams housed there.

Coming up in the near future will be the resurfacing of the track surrounding the CAU Panther Stadium football field; upgrades to the adjacent Lady Panthers softball field; enhancements of the football locker room, along with a new weight room. New brick and iron fencing around the stadium is also scheduled, as is a new entry way design for the stadium.

One of the more ambitious projects will be the reconditioning of the pool at Epps Gymnasium, a project that is being spearheaded by Steve Ewing, president of Wade Ford.

But first will be the new video board that will able to be seen clearly across the field by drivers traveling up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Besides being a focal point of CAU football games, the video board will also serve as an important advertising venue throughout the week.

"The video board and the 32 other project in athletics stem from the vision that CAU president Dr. Ronald A. Johnson has set for the University and athletics," Dawson said. "Our objectives are simple – being the university of choice, the employer of choice and to be the investment of choice."

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