It was Pittsburgh day yesterday, so there doing things all day to celebrate the Yinzer.
55K for Saturday?
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It was Pittsburgh day yesterday, so there doing things all day to celebrate the Yinzer.
I honestly forgot about that. I will rescind my negative comment as it will be only a one-time thing
mini fall break this weekend and many went home for long weekend.
When we play home games on student breaks I’d like to see the ticket office try to maybe get some high school students tickets
There have been a bunch of students in the upper level end zone sections for every game this year except for yesterday, when the lower level student sections weren't even close to full. There were far, far fewer students there (and there's a reason for that) than at any other game this season.
I sit in 133. I would say the Home side lower bowl was probably 88% – 90% full stretching from goal line to goal line. Lower bowl visitor side was probably 70% full. The 3 upper decks maybe 5% full. I’m guessing 35K were there.
Forget about next Thursday night, it’s going to be pathetic. I don’t care if it’s 65° with not a cloud in the sky. Nobody’s going to the game. Half of the season ticket holders are going to stay home. They’ll be lucky to have 20,000 people in the stands. I’m done caring about it though. I’ll be there, doesn’t matter who else is or isn’t. Just beat the piss out of the Orange.
I’ve said this so many times; Pitt doesn’t have an attendance problem, they have a stadium problem. Acrisure has about 25,000 more seats than Pitt needs. And there are no casual Pitt fans in town, I’m convinced of it. Nobody wakes up on a Saturday morning and goes, “ I think I’ll go to the Pitt game today.”. Nobody does that. You’re either all in on Pitt, or you’re all out. There are so many Penn State fans, and a good number of WVU fans in Pittsburgh as well. Hell, there are even a bunch of Notre Dame and Ohio State fans. I just think it’s a byproduct of where Pitt is located in relation to those other schools. Pitt fans max out at maybe 40,000–45,000. Of course when Penn State, WVU, Notre Dame come to town they fill the stadium out. Those times are few and far between and for people who don’t show up, so what? There’s really no value in Pitt tickets, they’re so cheap compared to the price of other schools. It’s really no skin off the nose of people who have tickets to just waste them.
How hard would it be to move the camera wells to the visitor side of the field? This is where not having your own stadium comes in as a detriment. The visual would be so much different if the cameras were showing the Pitt side of the field. There wouldn’t be nearly as many of those god-awful yellow seats.
On another note, I remember at Pitt Stadium they offered $5 youth tickets for kids 16 and under. It was great for me as someone who was newly married with young children. I would bring my oldest two to as many games as I could. I’m surprised they don’t try something like that. What could possibly be bad about that, other than they may have to have a few extra staff on hand to open up an additional concession stand.
Forget about next Thursday night, it’s going to be pathetic. I don’t care if it’s 65° with not a cloud in the sky. Nobody’s going to the game. Half of the season ticket holders are going to stay home. They’ll be lucky to have 20,000 people in the stands. I’m done caring about it though. I’ll be there, doesn’t matter who else is or isn’t. Just beat the piss out of the Orange.
I’ve said this so many times; Pitt doesn’t have an attendance problem, they have a stadium problem. Acrisure has about 25,000 more seats than Pitt needs. And there are no casual Pitt fans in town, I’m convinced of it. Nobody wakes up on a Saturday morning and goes, “ I think I’ll go to the Pitt game today.”. Nobody does that. You’re either all in on Pitt, or you’re all out. There are so many Penn State fans, and a good number of WVU fans in Pittsburgh as well. Hell, there are even a bunch of Notre Dame and Ohio State fans. I just think it’s a byproduct of where Pitt is located in relation to those other schools. Pitt fans max out at maybe 40,000–45,000. Of course when Penn State, WVU, Notre Dame come to town they fill the stadium out. Those times are few and far between and for people who don’t show up, so what? There’s really no value in Pitt tickets, they’re so cheap compared to the price of other schools. It’s really no skin off the nose of people who have tickets to just waste them.
How hard would it be to move the camera wells to the visitor side of the field? This is where not having your own stadium comes in as a detriment. The visual would be so much different if the cameras were showing the Pitt side of the field. There wouldn’t be nearly as many of those god-awful yellow seats.
On another note, I remember at Pitt Stadium they offered $5 youth tickets for kids 16 and under. It was great for me as someone who was newly married with young children. I would bring my oldest two to as many games as I could. I’m surprised they don’t try something like that. What could possibly be bad about that, other than they may have to have a few extra staff on hand to open up an additional concession stand.
It doesn't matter how hard it would be, because the people who would need to do that have absolutely no interest in doing it. Because they don't have that "problem".
Yeah, you are right, it was noticeable. I don't know if it was that different than YSU though, but it was for the others. I don't remember the YSU upper decks.
It is a weird Pittsburgh thing, meaning Pitt and the Steelers. People don’t fill in until well after kickoff.
The home 500 level was much better. There was a shot of it on TV. There's always far more people on the upper Pitt side than the visitor side. If you look at the Pitt side from the other side, it usually looks pretty good.
We actually commented at the YSU game that it was good to see so many students sitting in the upper level seats. I mean they weren't packed by any stretch of the imagination, but I was kind of expecting that there wouldn't be anyone up there at all (like what happened yesterday), and yet there were quite a few students sitting up there.
As someone who sits on the other side, no. Just no.
It doesn't actually usually look pretty good. And it did not yesterday.
We sit behind the students, and I check the 500 levels a few times at every game. Been doing it for a long time. Yesterday was considerably worse than what I'm accustomed to seeing against P4 competition. Like, I'm usually pretty "it is what it is" with Pitt's attendance, but I was actually taken aback by it yesterday. I knew of the student break beforehand, but it was bad well beyond the students. I know it's pretty unscientific to say "just trust me on this," but I'm telling you yesterday was bad.
But the fans were good/loud. I think Miami 2021 is the most impressed I ever was when it came to per fan decibel level. But even some fat dudes in our section who never stand were standing yesterday in the 4th quarter.
Pause this at 1:32, which was well into the game (either late 1st quarter or 2nd), and tell me more about how full that upper deck was.
Why would anyone care ?
Show up and cheer in person or shut up .
Simple
Because it was a talking point on a message board. Why would anyone care about sports at all?
That's the visitor side. No one sits on that side, even in the lower level, which makes sense since that's the one we put on TV.
There was hardly anyone up there.
