55K for Saturday?
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I could absolutely be wrong, but I did expect to see more folks there.
I cannot find data on the upper level seating capacity vs the lower level seating capacity, so I have a hard time gauging the numbers. There were definitely not 49,xxx there. That would only be 28% empty. Upstairs was very sparsely populated.
Yeah, who in the world came up with that homemade BS? That was something I would expect to see take place in someone's backyard one drunken Labor Day after two dads started yapping at each other over who used to be more athletic, aside from the fact that only one dude fell instead of both.
These folks don’t attend , but bitch about attendance from home
I think there are some people who buy multiple tickets thinking they're doing Pitt a favor (or maybe just reserving their spots, since the tickets are cheap enough to do so), but then people never use those tickets so they are just paying for empty seats that no one else has a chance to fill.
There are multiple people in our section who appear to have strips of 4-6-8 tickets, and different combinations of people show up every game. But the one consistent is that they are seldom all being used.
And when we sat where the students now are, the people in front of us were from Harrisburg and might have came to like half the games, if that. But that's the problem... they're cheap enough that you're able to just buy them every year and not care if you go. Not sure how you balance it, though, because I know people will bitch if they hike the prices up too high.
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buying season tickets absolutely helps pitt . It’s what helps pay the bills .
We had season tickets while living in North Carolina and only making 2-3 games a year
We donated the others to tickets for kids if we couldn’t find takers locally .
Attendance in the lower bowl looked fine to me from my vantage point in 232
If you're giving them away when you're not using them that's one thing. I feel like most people don't bother, though.
Not even going to pretend to get my hopes up for a Thursday game. That's a lost cause.
Ha. Pitt hasn’t drawn well in my 50+ years as a fan, and year-after year we keep getting pissed off about it, game after game.
Some are chastising people on a Pitt thread about not attending……
That’s really gonna change everything..
Pitt fandom is what it is.
I thought attendance looked pretty good from the bar tv while awaiting dinner with my kids and grandkids.
I do not live anywhere near Pgh anymore.
Some are chastising people on a Pitt thread about not attending……
That’s really gonna change everything..
Pitt fandom is what it is.
I thought attendance looked pretty good from the bar tv while awaiting dinner with my kids and grandkids.
I do not live anywhere near Pgh anymore.
Used to go to Thursday games with the guys. Alway enjoyed being with the boys, but hated them because I had a long day at work Friday.
Froze my ass off and have 2 ugly Pitt hoodie sweatshirts to prove it.
Syracuse should be a decent draw.
Thursday games traditionally are sparse.
I'm not sure how many seats are in the upper sections. I sat on visitors side and from my viewpoint the home side upper bowl was maybe 20 percent filled. The closed end zone upper bowl had maybe 20 people total. The Lower bowl was pretty packed tho.
I believe the lower bowl, club and suites seat roughly 40K. The rest are uppers.
If you took the people in uppers and move them into the lowers it would be close to filling the lower bowl. Actual attendance was probably 38-40k.
I don't think people appreciate how bad 40K looks in a 68k seat stadium.
I was in 511 and had a good vantage point to estimate maybe 42k fans, kinda disappointed but hey welcome to being an urban campus in a pro sports town. Ask BC, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Temple, even Miami or USC in a sense.
I was thinking 45K. I'd say it was in the 40K+ but under 50K ballpark. 49K gate or sold tix report isn't a huge stretch nor would that number be worth fudging. I was hoping to crack 50K which clearly didn't happen. Student section had disappointing holes in it. But no way was it under 40K.
I think it might have been just shy of 40. People dog on the UVA game in 2021, but there were considerably more people there for that game. And I think the consensus for it was 45-48. Yesterday was awful up top. I can't see the bleachers, but I would guess 10% full in the 500 level.
The so called Pitt fans that don’t go need to get off their lazy a## and get to the game.
What a pathetic showing yesterday. I was embarrassed by the turnout. On national TV. But I'm more mad at the 2 million people that live in the metro area than at Pitt fans. We just have a small fan base. The Steelers suck and are boring. The Pirates suck. The Pens suck. Why not take the family? A cheap and fun day outside with nice weather. A winning team to boot. Pittsburgh used to be a football town when I lived there 50 years ago. Far less go to HS football games these days as well. Sad. 
It was a pathetic showing for a 5-0 team on a beautiful Fall day. That's all I know.
Not sure if that was intended as a crowd-shaming picture but again, it was before the game started. I dont think I've ever seen a crowd-shaming post in the 2nd Quarter. Sometimes you see them 1 hour before the game which is ridiculous. Also, the Pitt crowd-shaming posts always show the visitor side which has significantly less people than the Pitt side which is why I always say that Pitt should move to the other side so that the TV side is more full.
It wasn't a crowd shaming post and it was 22 seconds before kickoff. Did it fill out a little after that? Yeah. Were there 45k in attendance? Hell to the no. And the home side 500 level was not much better.
Thanks for fanning the flames of yet another negativity post around an undefeated team. You are one miserable person.
It's funny how autistic you are without even realizing it. You don't even talk about Pitt on this message board; all you do is shit on people and post emojis. At least mix it up a little, Kip.
40k, maybe, and that’s pushing it. From my corner in 539 ($16 on stub hub plus fees) I had a decent panoramic view. Very disappointing crowd. Too bad because this team, finally, deserves better.
How practical would it have been to remove the Stadium track? Oval shape still means 56,500 seats are farther from a sunken field. To keep the elegant oval shape and classic facade, you would have to gut the entire seating area - hollow it out— and rebuild from the ground up. I guess anything is possible, and it might have cost less than a new stadium,but I’m not an architect. Thoughts?
Yep. Don't know where some of these other estimates are coming from.
Petersen math still in effect. Fans count as one each, their shadows one each, same for people on Mt Wash overlook, pigeons .25, 300 for every jet that passes overhead.
The numbers I have is that there are approximately 33,000 lower bowl non-club seats, 27,000 upper level seats, 7,300 club seats, and about 1,500 seats in the super boxes.
Which means that there were probably around 40,000 actually there yesterday, because I think you could fit all the people in the upper level into the lower level/club empty seats without much problem.
Yeah the lack of students was due to fall break. They’ve been one constant over the last few years of showing up
My section was packed, my lot was 100% full, the clubs were full. The visitors side surprisingly filled in. Other than perhaps the students, which wasn't significantly that different, it was a bigger crowd than YSU. Stand by my estimate of over 40K.
