After 33 months of work and 3 million man-hours the University of Notre Dame today provided its first public peek at the progress made on the Campus Crossroads project.

The media tour started in the football stadium where a 54 foot high and 96 foot wide video board now looms beyond the south end zone.

It’s something some thought they would never see in the house that Rockne built.

“The whole notion, I can’t believe they didn’t have it, you know, obviously this is obviously an iconic building,” said Mike Bonner who will produce the content displayed on the board. “Replay, replay, replay, absolutely, want to give the fans what they want.”

While there other college video boards larger in physical dimensions, Bonner says Notre Dame's is the largest outdoor NCAA video board as far as 10 millimeter pixels.

"What that means is that the RGBs--the red, green and blue LEDs within that board are set 10 millimeters apart from each other. Given the 54 feet high by 96 feet wide, it means that we have close to 4.8 million pixels that live in that videoboard and that's what makes it the largest," Bonner explained. "Are there larger videoboards physically in dimension--yes there are but as far as pixel pitch on this, it is the largest."

and he insists its purpose in life may go beyond the replay. “My job and one of the coolest parts of my job is situational stuff you know, so when I'm able to fire the crowd or the team up by a pump up video I run at the right time, it's extremely satisfying and it does make a difference.”

Bonner points out that when he worked the video board for the Denver Broncos that team appeared in two Super bowls.

The Notre Dame big screen can clearly be seen from some new premium seats on the ninth floor of Corbett Family Hall on the stadiums east side.

The Campus Crossroads project will add as many as 4,000 new premium seats although stadium capacity is expected to decline overall from 80,000 to about 78,000.

“All of the original seats in the lower bowl, so those 59,075 or so that were part of the original stadium, those had all been still the original wood bleachers last year. All those now have become galvanized steel and they’re two inches wider,” said Sports Information Director John Heisler.

Notre Dame will also do away with on-field bleacher seating, which will send the band into the stadium’s student section.

The stadium concourse received a major makeover. 149 flat screen TV’s now line the walls while wayfinding signs that hang from the ceiling display the artwork from celebrated football programs of the past.

“Having the opportunity to work with University Archives and dig up all this great imagery, there’s so many neat program covers we unveiled,” said Associate Athletic Director Beth Hunter. “Our mantra was how do we celebrate the tradition of Knute Rockne's original stadium, yet infuse modern day technology.”