I like to think of myself as being down the middle on this issue. I think Pitt had an opportunity to renovate Pitt Stadium into something modern and fantastic, but obviously that ship has sailed. It's concerning that the sport bringing home the money is the one getting shafted in the end.
I'm not sure there is a reasonable fix honestly. My fear is that if you tarp, Pitt then just decides to live with it and becomes OK with tarping off the upper deck. Posters are correct here, you will never draw 70K weekly, and you likely won't draw 60 or 50 either. I personally am less concerned with where the stadium is, and more concerned that Pitt has a place of it's own.
I think we all can agree, the atmosphere at Heinz Field is awful. It doesn't feel like a college football environment should. I'm not sure Pitt can do anything to make it feel more like a Pitt home environment either. Heinz Field is too big and too yellow to mask the attendance issues.
Heinz Field would actually be perfect if you could chop off the upper decks and just keep the lower bowl and rename it Pitt Stadium. Throw some field turf down and paint the seats blue.
Let's throw it out on the stoop, see if the cat licks it up.