Memorial Stadium Renovation

I have no issue with the new red end zones. It certainly pops in the pictures.

However, this is just a personal preference on my part, but I really do prefer the old sans-serif lettering that we used to use where the "N" in NEBRASKA and the N at the mid-field logo matched the sans-serif N on our helmets.

I always thought this was a great clean look. I think it went away around 2002 or 2003.

Maybe they can bring this look back when they put in the grass turf after the stadium expansion is finished.

Another idea would be to keep the new red endzone color and just bring back the old sans-serif lettering.

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Street Novelist said:
I hate the red endzones. Maybe it's the traditionalist in me, but the green looked better.
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Dannen said feedback he's received about the red endzones has been about 50/50 like/dislike.

Personally, I like the red endzones, but don't like having the red extend beyond them.

 
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Twinkletoes Flintstone said:
I mean, a lot of high school fields are green endzones with a skinny white line with a bunch more green outside.  I don't see how this is an issue.
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I was looking at the film of the 1971 Game Of The Century in Norman and that field had a single white stripe not only in the endzones but all the way around the entire field. I'm sure if the players in 1971 could figure it out our lads can get ahold of it now. I think most fields were like that back in that era. Regardless, the staff has over 3 months to coach them up and make sure they know that beyond the white stipe at the back of the endzone is OB.

 
I'm someone who b!^@hes about everything but I like the new field design a lot! It's different, but in a good way. The red boarder is a good touch. I always thought the "TO Field" looked really bad, but now the red makes it look like it belongs.

One perk of the future grass field will be that they can play around with different themes for celebrations. You ninny's might just get to see your favorite design again someday.

 
Dogs In A Pile said:
I was looking at the film of the 1971 Game Of The Century in Norman and that field had a single white stripe not only in the endzones but all the way around the entire field. I'm sure if the players in 1971 could figure it out our lads can get ahold of it now. I think most fields were like that back in that era. Regardless, the staff has over 3 months to coach them up and make sure they know that beyond the white stipe at the back of the endzone is OB.
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Weren’t the goalposts in the front of the end zone a give-away though? Or was that before 1970? Lol. 
 

What a great visual aid. Maybe we could do that again 

 
krc1995 said:
Weren’t the goalposts in the front of the end zone a give-away though? Or was that before 1970? Lol. 
 

What a great visual aid. Maybe we could do that again 
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No. I don't know what year they moved them but by 1971 they were at the back of the EZ out of the field of play. What an awful idea to have a solid, non-moveable object directly in the field of play. Made for great pick plays on crossing patterns over the middle though. 

 
Dogs In A Pile said:
No. I don't know what year they moved them but by 1971 they were at the back of the EZ out of the field of play. What an awful idea to have a solid, non-moveable object directly in the field of play. Made for great pick plays on crossing patterns over the middle though. 
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I find it hilarious.  Just one of those things you wonder who- or how many-decided that was a good idea. I’m guessing not much throwing the ball was happening and it might have  been illegal. 

 
Doesn't look like we'll be getting renders anytime soon.

https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/article_8689a484-cfec-53c1-bb0a-9c0380e37238.html?utm_source=journalstar.com&utm_campaign=news-alerts&utm_medium=cio&lctg=d4f30704fba401bcce08&tn_email_eh1=5738e5b20865e93df22d8ab79f8b70ed6d7f3ce60034f15c6e8442c03a673bed

“Design-wise, we’re in a really good place. We’re not going to the Board (of Regents) this summer. I think we have a good pro-forma. There’s a lot of things happening, both in our world — which doesn’t really affect the stadium project, but the economic model is certainly impacted by what’s going on right now — and in the institutional world.
 
“There are a lot of things happening in the institutional world with federal grants and how the university operates that for the switch to flip, to move forward, I’m not ready to put my hand on the switch, let alone for the president to say ‘Go ahead and flip it.’
 

 


“But it’s still coming. My timeline that I’ve been public about, post 2026 and ready in 2028, is still really the timeline of the project that we’re working for but haven’t been to the Board yet and I don’t really have a timeline for getting to them, but everything’s on track.”
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