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Biggest Obstacle
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Yep, the Negative Nellies will be returning as PittPoker posted all game long, PittPoker gave up when he started to looking for people to back him as Pitt was trying to made a comeback, he will now tell us he is dealing with low self-esteem and high expectations, I suspect! LOL!
Sigh... you should talk, coming from a guy who posted we need more 1st halves like this. Yeah, we need more 23-3 1st halves, like we haven't had hundreds of them in the past decades. Keep preaching sir, keep preaching.
Then Miami has no hope.... because they draw 1/4 of the fans that we do to their home games.
Elite players want to get to the NFL. That's what they want. That's why a guy like Calipari in basketball can recruit at UMass and Memphis - the promise of making money playing the sport.
Pitt won a national championship in 1976 averaging 45,000 per game. Miami won multiple championships in the 80s and 90s, despite playing in front of half-full stadiums most of the time.
If you can get elite players into the pros, you'll get the recruits. That matters 10 times more than the number of people at the games.
Miami has South Beach, a bigger talent pool, and they paid their guys in the 80's and 90's. 50k+ supportive fans for every game is not asking a lot.
And we had 45K+ this year..... and next year it will be more than 50k+.
In college football, the bulk of the sales are made pre-season..... very few tickets are sold on a walk-up basis.
This season will generate enough buzz to increase the season ticket sales 15-20% over this year.... that's been the pattern in the past. It was the pattern in 2008-2010 when Pitt was pre-season favorite in the BE and had some buzz. It was the case in 2003 when Pitt was ranked pre-season and had a Heisman candidate.
It will be the case next season too.
Yes it is. You can count on two hands how many times that was the average attendance for Pitt football.
The attendance this year was poor even by Pitt standards imo considering they had a credible season.
Barely any home field advantage whatsoever.
Barely any home field advantage whatsoever.
How, in God's name, could you possibly conclude that I am not a Pitt fan\? Perhaps because I do not blame attendance for our poor performance throughout the past thirty years? Your reasoning is baffling.
Did you think my answer could be more hypothetical as opposed to personal? Sheesh. Chill.
Well, if that is the case, players might as well go to Penn State as they have many more players in the pros compared to Pitt.
Not meant to be offensive, but that sounds a bit paranoid. I take nothing on these sites as personal as most posters are anonymous. Thanks for your reply. I'm done.
Cool. But you appeared to be very offended in your original response. Just wanted to point out it truly wasn't pointing a finger at you.
I would change the Op's title from "Biggest Obstacle" to "Only Obstacle"
Put 50K in the house 6 times a year and there becomes little if any negative recruiting against Pitt that would stick.
Put 50K in the house 6 times a year and there becomes little if any negative recruiting against Pitt that would stick.
