Attendance

[pittdan77]

When I was going to every Pitt game at Pitt Stadium, between '87-'92 every game was not sold out, not even close most of the time, even tOSU, ND, Penn State and forget it if it was Pacific, Navy or Northern Iowa! And people weren't obsessing over it. maybe because there where no message boards.

Yeah, I don't remember sitting in a packed stadium either. The obsession with Heinz is driven by the #107strong nonsense more than anything.

 

[Drax1975]

This is the old school way of thinking. You have to have realistic goals. For years, different AD'd have publicly stated their goal is to sell out Heinz Field and they all failed. Unless Pitt was a consistent Top 10-15 program, consistently competing for CFP spots, selling out Heinz Field for a non-"event" game is completely unrealistic. It just is. Pitt has a lot of local sports competition and its alums are also enormous fans of the local pro teams.

Instead of trying to sell 70K tickets, we need to find a way to make 40K look like 40K looks at BC, GT, Stanford, TCU, and Baylor. We are never going to be Florida, South Carolina, or Iowa in terms of attendance and we shouldn't try to be.

I really believe the upper deck endzone and non-TV view upper sideline should be closed. There is no reason why Pitt cant make Heinz into a 45K seat stadium on gamedays.

I say offer free tacos and enchiladas for the undocumented citizens and they will fill up the upper deck end zone!