How about Pitt builds a few buildings on the North Shore, make sure they say Pitt all over them hold some classes there, then Heinz will be an on campus Stadium.
On Campus Stadium-Pitt's lone solution
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Gotta be able to appreciate the enticing aromas wafting from the O for it to be on campus... Northside is for the Rooneys
Has anyone had a discussion with the Rooneys about attendance. Tie steeler tickets to Pitt tickets.
If you buy and attend the Pitt game you get a 10% discount for the steeler tickets.
Just looking at the stadim for steeler games they are also loosing fans.
Just a tought?
If you buy and attend the Pitt game you get a 10% discount for the steeler tickets.
Just looking at the stadim for steeler games they are also loosing fans.
Just a tought?
LOL, okay...keep me posted on that stadium champ...maybe we should just blow up the cathedral and put it there...haha
What?! Every Steelers ticket is sold out in perpetuity. There is a waiting list to get season tickets. The empty seats you see are the people in the club or in the rotundas and concourses. Why the hell would the Rooney's ever do this?
Are you counting on our faithful AD Barnes to get us this new stadium? He is looking for the first job on the west coast he can find. I just don't know where the funding and land is going to come from. But your blind faith is cute.
No doubt Ped St has many fans who either never went to Ped St or Flunked out of one of their 87 branch campuses.
So, is this a threat about an on-campus stadium, or one about growing Pitt's attendance?
Some of you will say its both, because if you build an on-campus stadium, more people will come and that will fix the attendance issue.
And yet, virtually every proposal for an on-campus stadium I've read calls for a small capacity stadium. You can't grow attendance if you don't have room for the extra attendees.
Some of you will say its both, because if you build an on-campus stadium, more people will come and that will fix the attendance issue.
And yet, virtually every proposal for an on-campus stadium I've read calls for a small capacity stadium. You can't grow attendance if you don't have room for the extra attendees.
Even when Dorsett and Marino played they only had a sellout when Notre Dame and PSU came to town. Pitt Stadium came down, it wasn't profitable. Space was needed.
Good work. You've decided against a $225 million plan for a new stadium and replaced it with about a $1.3 billion plan. You have to be related to my girlfriend.
Where they have been for the past few years. At home watching Pitt because they hate Heinz Field!
I would be really really surprised if any fans (let alone anywhere close to 5,000) didn't go to Pitt football games because of Heinz Field.
And you would be wrong about that. Allegheny County has about twice the Pitt alums vs. psu alums. There are more psu grads in Allegheny County than any other county......lots of golf course employees.
No way. Three to one Pitt. Similar to our attendance at 42-39. They were in minority.
Wait. If a mega donor offered $300M towards a new stadium you would be against that? Why?
#4, forget about it. More than a billion. The Rooney tunnel cost $600 million, and very little eminent domain costs. That ship sailed long ago, as the Stillers are deemed more important than Pitt.
Because Pitt would need to come up with maybe that much, and maintain the place.....the numbers don't work. Pitt isn't a football program.
I don't trust "the numbers" when they likely came from people with a bias against moving back to campus.
Pitt is no longer a basketball school and we pay to maintain the Pete.
Its an unrealistic scenario but Pitt would be flat out stupid to not seriously consider it if a 300 million contribution was made.
Pitt needs a 45K-50K seat stadium no matter where they put it. If they tarped down Heinz and squished more people together, the gameday atmosphere would be improved. Its hard to get into the game when no one is sitting next to you, in front of you, or behind you.
I'd be amazed if anyone with that much dough would be dumb enough to put $300 million into a stupid project like that.
I'm surprised that you continue to pontificate about a new "on campus" stadium without any urban development expertise, experience or education in urban planning.
www.newpittstadium.com
Why spend a BILLION dollars on your ideas when for less than $200 M we build a 50K on campus stadium? Extending the "T" to Oakland? At least a billion dollars.
If that's the same website.....you don't either. Besides, it's a fiscal decision, not urban planning. It's a waste of money, time and energy. They're not hiring you either way.
I've said it won't be done. And you're nuts if you think a stadium in Oakland could be built at that price. Go back to site development for Sheetz or Smoothie King.
You really don't have any financial, urban planning and development background. You attack me and others because of it. Please stop the foolishness.
When Populous returns with Pitt Athletics Site Plan, the new on campus stadium will be a part of the future. Naysayers and yinzers need not comment.
When Populous returns with Pitt Athletics Site Plan, the new on campus stadium will be a part of the future. Naysayers and yinzers need not comment.
Will you promise to stop posting when Populousy submits their report which WON'T include a stadium??
Anyone who does not have the professional understanding and ability to use all available resources to plan an urban development project knows nothing about urban planning. Please site all educational degrees and professional expertise/experiences.
You obviously have not kept up with the professionals nor my opinions. Don't let the facts get in the way. I am bored by "know nothing" rants and uneducated posts.
The report will include a stadium proposal but it will be dismissed as unable to be completed due to cost and feasibility.
Not really, but you have a good idea. Unfortunately, The Rooneys have other plans for the northside. If Steelers give Heinz to Pitt, then free is me! We make everything Pitt like you said. It's easy when people stumble upon a great idea to discuss facts.
