Glad to see Pitt win and look forward to next week's game vs Penn State. I did want to follow up on my statement from two weeks ago because I knew I was correct and have been saying this for years. Pitt didn't sell 50,000 season tickets because there were 35,000 people or less at the game unless 15,000 Penn State fans bought season tickets. Pitt should have put the 25,000 to 30,000 extra tickets sitting in Lyke's bank on stub hub for $1 or less and see what happens. Who cares if people mock us but at least we are trying something new to get people in the stands. At the end of the day, that's all that matters so we can compete recruiting wise vs OSU, PSU, ND, UM, etc. because right now we can't compete and just look at the recruiting rankings as they don't lie.
Here's the bottom line as I mentioned, the AD (SP/Barnes/Lyke) keeps doing the same thing over and over again at Heinz and you think one great atmosphere game vs Penn State is going to change things in recruiting. LOL. No way! Elite 4/5 star recruits aren't dumb and the PSU/OSU's who played non attractive opponents as well yesterday had over 100K people in their building so those coaches will negative recruit against us. I get we don't have the fan base to have 107K which is OK but that goes back to having the on campus stadium which should be $55K with a great atmosphere and out of Heinz morgue. Tarping is for minor leagues (bad look) and will lead to more negative recruiting by our rivals.
If we are staying at Heinz, what do you have to lose by selling all of the upper deck seats for a $1 unless we are playing PSU, WVU or ND? I would also argue that the loyal season ticket fan who is paying a lot more to sit in the lower bowl should be the first to get access to as many tickets as they want for the desirable games before they go on sale to the public at a minimum of a $100 or more. I've seen enough Pitt games over the years at Heinz and I don't care if it's UM or VT, ALL the uppers should always be a $1 outside of those three opponents mentioned above. Atmosphere is the key to recruiting 4/5 star players and the coaches right now are at a major disadvantage due to a morgue like environment with empty yellow seats like yesterday. Can you image if you are an elite 4/5 recruit at yesterday's game and then go to OSU the following week? Terrible and then we have no chance.
Change is necessary in any business if you want to be successful. If we want to compete for ACC championships on a yearly basis, we must change unless you are happy going 7-5 or 8-4 and playing in a meaningless bowl game year after year which is our current setup.
H2P!