OT: Duquesne, UPMC renovating Palumbo
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Yeah, its an initial rendering but it looks worse than what they had proposed a year or so ago.
No, not near that much. They purchased naming rights, they're not funding the entire renovation.
I don't think WVU is looking to replace Mike Carey. Penn St. is another story. They are not the program they were when Rene was there, and I could definitely see them taking a run at Burt.
So Duquesne's Arena name has University of Pittsburgh in it.
First thing I thought this morning. Three non-Pitt UMPC named stadiums. For RMU, I can't imagine how they'll ever fill it but that's another story.
So, if you are scoring at home:
3 UMPC college sports venues, 0 of which are affiliated with Pitt
A rich Pitt alum invested hundreds of millions into the Panthers football team, but not the Pitt Panthers.
I think our billionaire friend is a bigger pitt hoops fan than football. He endowed a schollie for men’s hoops. Heard he helped big time on the stallings buyout but not from any reliable person so easily could be bs.
Dukes have to be careful....close to looking like a high school gym. I know you want to create atmosphere but too small and you are screaming Div. 2. No one will want to play there (i.e. Pitt, WVU) but I guess they could always move to PPG for big games.
Field house was a high school gym. No better ambience in the world than some of those pitt games in the field house.
I’ll take that environment over the Pete with a bunch of old people sitting on their hands anyday.
It’s almost like upmc is an entirely separate entity from Pitt.
I think everyone on this planet gets this with the exception of posters on this board.
They're separate when they want to be separate and connected when they want to be connected. Hard to blame them for that approach.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Cal U and IUP will have nicer/bigger arenas and RMU's will only be a touch smaller but nicer. They are spending a ton of money on what would be one of the worst arenas in the CAA
It states outright in the article that the seating capacity will remain roughly the same; I think you are making much ado about meaningless renderings.
I was thinking the same. They are putting 45 million into it, adding luxury boxes and we have posters on here already bashing it. Weird.
Besides, even if they did decrease the capacity, who cares? They never fill the place anyways, and there's an 18,000 seat arena three blocks away.
I wouldn't use CalU's arena as a comparison. That thing is way too big and was an albatross from day 1.
They apparently were serious when they said that they were going to attract all sorts of concerts to that arena so they made it bigger.
Wrong, but serious.
I'm sure they'd like to do something a bit bigger, but where would they put it? In some ways, it's not unlike trying to put a stadium in Oakland, although on a much smaller scale. Urban campus issues.
