They had to counteract the millions they got from the Gates foundation. I would guess only money from the Mexican cartels would be too dirty to accept.
OT: Northwestern unveils $800M new stadium plans
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One thing Pitt brass understands, the on campus stadium issue is not going to go away as long as Pitt plays D-1 football. It's not just those of us old baby boomers who miss being on campus and in Oakland before and after a game.
I went by figures published in this article from a few weeks ago. Not sure where you are getting your capacity numbers
https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/lists/college-football-power-5-smallest-stadiums-ncaa-2021/
Agreed. If only to avoid the perception of anti trust (or any similar accusation of screwing) the weaker programs, and will be kept at least for an acceptable period of many years (until other inevitable outside lawsuits clear out). Northwestern (and Vanderbilt, plus UCLA to an extent) hit the lottery, albeit each nearly 75 years ago, but the checks are most definitely in todays dollars.
For all the expert dipsticks here, adjusted for inflation this stadium would still be THREE HUNDRED MILLION more than it cost to build HF. So yeah, it shouldn't cost Pitt $800 million to build a new stadium.
Construction costs have risen faster than inflation, for a bunch of reasons. And, Heinz Field was built on flat ground. Oakland is…not that.
Now compare available land on the north shore to Oakland .
Stick to grievance about play calls and being wrong on the run
ass ratioAnd how much that land in Oakland will cost to acquire, compared to the $0 that Northwestern will have to spend to build on the same location as their current stadium.
$300 million additional? I doubt it. Like I said... Northwestern's stadium is grossly overpriced, especially when it will only seat 35,000. $800 million? LMAO.
And we don't know how much a new stadium in Oakland would cost, because Pitt isn't serious about it. It's a convenient excuse to say it will cost some outrageous figure, but they don't even know. And Pitt could have been acquiring land for said stadium for the last 20 years. They didn't, because they WANT the values to keep increasing so that have an excuse.
Pitt plays in maybe the nicest, most amenity filled stadium in college football, three miles from the Cathedral, has sold out 38K season tickets and over 10K student tickets, and some people are still wanting to build a rinky dink, 45K, no frills, Sun Belt-level embarrassment of a stadium crammed into an imaginary Oakland parcel with no accompanying infrastructure upgrades and no political support while Syracuse is finding boosters that are willing to pay recruits $1m a year?
Does anyone bother to actually think about where money should be being allocated in the current landscape that Pitt finds itself in? Does anyone think the stadium is why Pitt isn't currently ranked in the top 10? Hint: the game day facility is not a problem, and hasn't been a problem, and won't be a problem.
I love the argument, "Pitt could do it if it wants" for the same school that has been unable to close a one block section of Bigelow Blvd for 60 years and has, by far, the smallest campus by acre, and the most urban-integrated, in all of the power 5. Or those that "know" it should only cost so much because they conjured a made up number that "sounds about right" because it is similar to what a 40K stadium in Bumbleville, Arkansas cost in 2010.
Does anyone bother to actually think about where money should be being allocated in the current landscape that Pitt finds itself in? Does anyone think the stadium is why Pitt isn't currently ranked in the top 10? Hint: the game day facility is not a problem, and hasn't been a problem, and won't be a problem.
I love the argument, "Pitt could do it if it wants" for the same school that has been unable to close a one block section of Bigelow Blvd for 60 years and has, by far, the smallest campus by acre, and the most urban-integrated, in all of the power 5. Or those that "know" it should only cost so much because they conjured a made up number that "sounds about right" because it is similar to what a 40K stadium in Bumbleville, Arkansas cost in 2010.
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Pitt's football program is well funded. Money spent or donated for a stadium doesn't mean that is money taken away from football.
I agree. After traveling to Pitt at VTech a few years ago, I felt like I was watching a game at Adamson Stadium (Cal U of PA). The only gripe I have for is the lack of appropriate shade for the seating area ala The U renovation. Otherwise, Acrisure is much better and the players love it.
