For all the complainers about the students this year.....

[pitt-girl]

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...renewed-student-interest/stories/201511130006

Attendance is up 40%. And the new measures are keeping them through the 4th quarter. This article doesn't quite fit the "let's trash the students after every game" narrative. Maybe this information can give it a rest?

 

[UPitt '89]

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...renewed-student-interest/stories/201511130006

Attendance is up 40%. And the new measures are keeping them through the 4th quarter. This article doesn't quite fit the "let's trash the students after every game" narrative. Maybe this information can give it a rest?

The new measures didn't keep them through the 4th quarter against Louisville. There was a mass exodus from the student section as soon as the last note of Sweet Caroline played.

For the rest of the games, they have stayed longer.

 

[pittdan77]

Anybody else a little uncomfortable with a guy named Bain talking about Heinz field?

 

[UPitt '89]

Regular crowd is filling in nicely now... but there are literally less than 200 people in the student section 10 minutes before kickoff.

Being that about 70% of Pitt students are from within 40 miles of Pittsburgh, that's actually pretty bad. The student could've come to this game... at least certainly more than a couple hundred.