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I agree. Attacking students that only occupy 10000 seats is dumb. Somehow we need to bridge the gap to get alumni at games. I wonder if pitt should do something completely crazy. I have maintained that pitt would serve itself well by giving all local high school and middle school football teams free tickets. Build connections with these coaches and even throw in a 5 buck food voucher. It is all perception. If you can make it appear that heinz field is a destination for fun on a Saturday afternoon then do it
My daughter is on the fan committee and she suggested that, all Western Pa schools.
That's a great idea! These kids are the future fans with their families when they grow up. Doing anything on a regular basis is a routine/habit so lets help the kids get into the attending a Pitt game routine!
That's how they do it down south in the SEC. We have Alabama friends who have been attending Alabama ( husband) and Auburn ( wife) games since they were kids. Their granparents and parents did the same its a tradition to go to the Saturday football game. There's a cable TV host who is very Mississippi and flies to the Ole Miss games Friday when his show is over.He said this is a family tradition going way back.
Pitt has to begin building this bond with the community. Not easy. The Pens did something like that when they weren't winning letting the local college kids in for free to occupy empty seats. Now many of those kids have good jobs and season tickets!
Fayette. You may be able to give to "schools" but don't think you can give to HS football teams specifically. Did your daughter say if we ever discussed tarping (cool tarps with Pitt logo and NC dates, etc.) the upper level from the 20's to the end zone to bring capacity down to 45,000 or so? Can always take them off for PSU and ND. Would change the atmosphere and visual on tv and seems easy and no harm to the Steelers. Really confused why we don't do this next year.
If adults want to tag along sell 10 buck tickets. Also, I am sure the athletic department knows, but season ticket holders need to show up for all games possible. I live about 4 hours away. I miss usually a night game on weeknights in years we have multiple ones and if bad weather occurs (last year's cuse ice storm game I turned around halfway there) but maybe the athletic department could somehow convince those that usually only go to one game to go to two. And those that go to 2 games get them to 3. The sad thing is we have more than enough alumni in the 5 County radius to fill heinz every week. Somehow we need to bring these fans into the fold.
I like the idea of the family friendly zone that someone just posted in the adjacent thread. Problem is his suggestion is in a club section.
I like the idea of the family friendly zone that someone just posted in the adjacent thread. Problem is his suggestion is in a club section.
The problem with giving them to random groups is you won't develop them as fans. To creat new regular fans you have to give them to kids the same kids lots of them on a regular basis.Eventually the kids will say hey mom and dad lets go to a Pitt game on Saturday and lets bring two of my friends and so on. Eventually as they grow up you would hope they become regular fans and do the same with their families. It starts with the kids not the older people.
I teach high school kids in central pa. Every week there is a group of them that get together and go to psu games and visit their college friends. Do the local schools have high school kids that just head to heinz for something to do on a Saturday?
