The WVU Foundation continues to sit on plans regarding the new video scoreboard inside the Coliseum, but we’re beginning to learn a little bit more about the new scoreboard to be installed this summer at Mountaineer Field.

Associate athletic director Russ Sharp said the athletic department expects the scoreboard to be completed in time for the football team’s season opener.

“We’ve done it before – the north and the south scoreboards,” Sharp said. “Scoreboard work gets done during the summer, and it all gets done before the season start.”

Sharp also said that the news and specifics on the scoreboard will be made public at a later date. 

I’m not going to lie…I’m a little concerned. It’s hostile enough without an incredibly sharp 85-by-25 screen at Mountaineer Field and without any sort of replay capability at the Coliseum. Now both venues will be fitted with state-of-the-art devices, which means this question must be asked: Will there be additional security?