Charles Schwab Field Omaha (TDAPO)

[skinzfan23]

Absolutely, I think the bars in restaurants in the area love it to get a test run each year. Not sure hotels fill up much bc it doesn’t look the other teams out of state have many people besides maybe families. Hopefully they can lock up another 5-10 years soon.

I’ve said it before, but would love to have CHI bid for the Big 10 basketball tournament for men’s or women’s.

[nebugeater]

Big Ten Tournament total attendance since 2014 (8-team double elimination unless noted)

2014: 62,044 (Omaha)
2019: 47,790 (Omaha)
2023: 39,406 (Omaha)
2024: 39,187 (Omaha)
2025: 37,001 (Omaha) *New 12-team format with similar number of total games
2016: 33,728 (Omaha)
2022: 13,951 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2018: 12,404 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2015: 7,384 (Minneapolis) *6 teams, Minnesota did not quality
2017: 6,712 (Bloomington, Ind.) *Indiana played 3 games
No tournament was played in 2020 or 2021.

The weather didn't help the numbers this year. There was +15,000 at the champ game on Sunday.

[Greg S]

Big Ten Tournament total attendance since 2014 (8-team double elimination unless noted)

2014: 62,044 (Omaha)
2019: 47,790 (Omaha)
2023: 39,406 (Omaha)
2024: 39,187 (Omaha)
2025: 37,001 (Omaha) *New 12-team format with similar number of total games
2016: 33,728 (Omaha)
2022: 13,951 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2018: 12,404 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2015: 7,384 (Minneapolis) *6 teams, Minnesota did not quality
2017: 6,712 (Bloomington, Ind.) *Indiana played 3 games
No tournament was played in 2020 or 2021.

The weather didn't help the numbers this year. There was +15,000 at the champ game on Sunday.

Honestly that was a big factor. We only went at the last minute on Tuesday. Had planned to go Friday but the weather obviously didn't cooperate and it got rescheduled late Friday for Saturday morning.

[nebugeater]

Big Ten Tournament total attendance since 2014 (8-team double elimination unless noted)

2014: 62,044 (Omaha)
2019: 47,790 (Omaha)
2023: 39,406 (Omaha)
2024: 39,187 (Omaha)
2025: 37,001 (Omaha) *New 12-team format with similar number of total games
2016: 33,728 (Omaha)
2022: 13,951 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2018: 12,404 (Omaha) *Nebraska did not qualify
2015: 7,384 (Minneapolis) *6 teams, Minnesota did not quality
2017: 6,712 (Bloomington, Ind.) *Indiana played 3 games
No tournament was played in 2020 or 2021.

The weather didn't help the numbers this year. There was +15,000 at the champ game on Sunday.

Honestly that was a big factor. We only went at the last minute on Tuesday. Had planned to go Friday but the weather obviously didn't cooperate and it got rescheduled late Friday for Saturday morning.

I went Fri for the last game that was not played. I am guessing there were between 5 K +/- there. Did get to watch the Softball game on the screen, so there was that.

I did not go to the re-scheduled Sat AM game, but those gate numbers counted for the entire day. It arrived around the third inning of the Iowa game and the entire Husker game. Nice crowd, but still was smaller than a nice warm sunny day would have been.

Sunday was good. Was there too. If it were a typical May day without rain, I would guess there would have been 20,000 rather than 15,000 there.

Not the best spring for College baseball in this area. Went to a lot of Husker games, but by no means all of them. There was not a game I went to this year where you didn't have a jacket with you, not typical at all.

[iamjacobm]

Looks like the old scoreboard is gone currently empty space. I’d imagine the new one goes up this week.

[Brad]

Looks like the old scoreboard is gone currently empty space. I’d imagine the new one goes up this week.

Wonder why they wouldn’t wait until spring? Keep one more winter off the new boards?

You notice if the ribbon panels are up yet?

Between PBA, CHI, Baxter, Schwab and Ralston, Daktronics has pulled a truckload of money out of Nebraska this summer…

[iamjacobm]

Looks like the old scoreboard is gone currently empty space. I’d imagine the new one goes up this week.

Wonder why they wouldn’t wait until spring? Keep one more winter off the new boards?

You notice if the ribbon panels are up yet?

Between PBA, CHI, Baxter, Schwab and Ralston, Daktronics has pulled a truckload of money out of Nebraska this summer…

I didn’t even think to check the ribbon board, saw a smaller crane on 12th street and noticed the existing screen was gone.

And yeah no joke the scoreboard salesperson for the area had a banner year. Heard Fremont had some scoreboard issues opening their new stadium probably wasn’t the highest priority for that company this year.

[skinzfan23]

They posted a pic on Facebook today, doesn’t look like ribbon boards are up yet.

[nebugeater]

Looks like the old scoreboard is gone currently empty space. I’d imagine the new one goes up this week.

Wonder why they wouldn’t wait until spring? Keep one more winter off the new boards?

You notice if the ribbon panels are up yet?

Between PBA, CHI, Baxter, Schwab and Ralston, Daktronics has pulled a truckload of money out of Nebraska this summer…

Creighton Baseball season will start in February with the first home games being in March. They would need to be up and usable before this. They would not do this in season. Better to get it done now than to try and do this when it might be nasty winter weather.

[Brad]

There are a bunch of new metal pieces laying on the ground in lot C to support the additional scoreboard in left field. There’s also equipment to install those pieces on site as well.

[Louie]

There are a bunch of new metal pieces laying on the ground in lot C to support the additional scoreboard in left field. There’s also equipment to install those pieces on site as well.

I saw cranes around the stadium yesterday in preparation.

[Brad]

There are a bunch of new metal pieces laying on the ground in lot C to support the additional scoreboard in left field. There’s also equipment to install those pieces on site as well.

Photo:
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[skinzfan23]

Looks like both new scoreboards are up

[Brad]

Looks like both new scoreboards are up

Up but I still saw a guy up there last week working on the new one. They are also still working on the video board sign on 10th and Cuming too.

I did forget to look and see if the ribbon was up yet.

[Brad]

Flew over the stadium today. Most of the ribbon board is up, just finishing up behind home plate.

There is no more "Old School" baseball scoreboard below the video board, its just all video board, same on both sides. I'm not surprised by this. Wouldn't be shocked if the old baseball scoreboard was one of the last ones they made for a ballpark of this level.

[Brad]

Flew over the stadium today. Most of the ribbon board is up, just finishing up behind home plate.

There is no more "Old School" baseball scoreboard below the video board, its just all video board, same on both sides. I'm not surprised by this. Wouldn't be shocked if the old baseball scoreboard was one of the last ones they made for a ballpark of this level.

Photo from when I flew over. You can see the two new video boards and the ribbon board.

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[nativeomahan]

I must have missed it…what is going in on the empty lot in the far upper left corner of this photo?

[Brad]

I must have missed it…what is going in on the empty lot in the far upper left corner of this photo?

Parking Garage with Street Level Retail.
https://www.eomahaforums.com/viewtopic. ... &start=320

[skinzfan23]

Looks like they were testing the new boards today.

[Brad]

The replaced everything at the ballpark related to the video system.

This $6.5 million improvement, which was completed this fall

Along with these technological refreshes comes a whole new A/V control room at the stadium
with new cameras, replay systems, switchers, and more

The earlier KETV article says $4.7 million.

[Brad]

Anyone know what this is? Stadium lights or something smaller inside the stadium structure itself?

196 Lights fixtures on an existing electrical service.

[Brad]

Old stadium lights should start coming down tomorrow. Estimated to take about a month, but with it being winter and the holidays it could take longer.

Roger Dixon said the number one complaint since the ballpark opened (Excluding parking complaints) was only having one score board

Photos from today:

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[Omaha Cowboy]

Good looking pics Brad …

Ciao..LiO…Peace

[almighty_tuna]

Cool photos! One thing I didn't expect to see was the convention center expansion being visible from the ballpark!

[nebugeater]

In your second photo, that is a pretty good pitch speed for throwing in December in 30-degree temps!

[Brad]

Thanks Guys!

In your second photo, that is a pretty good pitch speed for throwing in December in 30-degree temps!

I can't imagine hitting a baseball in this cold is much fun either...

[skinzfan23]

Very nice and needed upgrade.

Hard to tell from the pics and I didn't see the specs anywhere for the videoboards but are they both the same size? Looks like the LF one might be a tiny bit smaller.

[Brad]

Hard to tell from the pics and I didn't see the specs anywhere for the videoboards but are they both the same size? Looks like the LF one might be a tiny bit smaller.

They are both 60' wide and 43.5' tall. Both are 10mm pixels. They can be operated separately or together.

Ribbon board is 4' tall and 822' wide and 8mm pixels.

[skinzfan23]

Thanks for the specs Brad. Any idea what the pixels were for the old videoboard?

[Brad]

Thanks for the specs Brad. Any idea what the pixels were for the old videoboard?

Someone (I Believe Roger Dixon) said it yesterday, and I believe it was 20. Whatever it was, it was quite a big upgrade.

[Brad]

Looks like all the new lights have been installed. One interesting note is that the left field and right field lights which are on the outside of the foul line, so behind the third deck stands, have four extra lights on the crossbar that’s about halfway up.

[skinzfan23]

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned but MLB 26 has a Road to the Show section where you can play at Schwab Field. Don’t think that CHI looks like it but at least the stadium is in the game.