Pitt’s new on campus football stadium
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I still think it's hilarious that Pitt kept saying they don't have the money for an on campus stadium, and then they went and started building facilities costing hundreds of millions for non revenue sports.... without having the money. Only at Pitt. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It. Will. Never. Change.
It. Will. Never. Change.
Tear down the VA Hospital. Even better yet, tear down Carnegie Mellon.
Even if you ignore Victory Heights, there is now a large basketball arena and two dorm buildings in the footprint where the football stadium used to be.
They've made it a self fulfilling prophecy. Giving up the land they had like complete morons, and then not trying to secure space when it was certainly cheaper = intention. They simply don't want to have a successful football program. This is a school that didn't have any Pitt alums on the Chancellor's leadership team for years, while several alums from PSU served on that team.
It's almost as if the incompetence were intentional.
Heinz/Acrisure is 10x better then anything we could build.
If 25 homeowners decided to sell their homes to Pitt, there's nothing the city could do about it. Also, its pretty likely those homes are owned by that CR Kelly Real Estate or some other company.
Pitt gave up land? You mean in the 1930s when the university gave land to Presby and Children's to create a medical center on campus or the 1950s when it gave land to the VA?
Oh, and that PSU alumni urban legend is just that...completely false; debunked multiple times. Ignorance endures, however.
It certainly isn't. LOL. It is pure comedy.
Well, she did commit to what amounts to financial crimes for building an unnecessary Volleyball Taj Mahal.
i always thought that the VA being there is the worst spot on the planet (OK, in western PA) for a hospital. Talk about a terrible place to get in and out of..
So much space all around the city, in the surrounding suburbs, to build a beautiful, convenient, state of the art hospital for our hero veterans and we put it on a mountain in oakland, surrounded by 3 (or is it 4, or is it 5) colleges, a 100 chain hotels and 3 (or it is 4 or is it 5) other hospitals..
Whoever made that decision didnt think that one out..
I'm not going to pretend that someone who doesn't know how to use the reply button and doesn't bring us any MSPaint renderings knows what they're talking about when it comes to stadiums.
It’s really easy to get in and out of .
Plus free parking in a large garage next door .
They build hospitals where populations actually need them
The decision was probably was made by the Fitzgerald administration, the guy that brought athletic scholarships back and essentially saved Pitt athletics from Code Bowman.
The entire purpose was to build on the university's medical center, which has proven to be, to put it mildly, a success. It was built around the time as the then new medical school, Scaife Hall, and then new nursing residence, Lothrop Hall. You had Presby, Children's, Montifore, Municipal, Ear & Eye, Falk Clinic, the Medical Arts building, and Western Psych, and the VA all right in the same location as the med and nursing schools, along with the soon to be built school of public health.
And there continues to be Pitt med faculty that work in the VA.
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Another history lesson from @CrazyPaco.....always appreciated...
Wait, you’re telling me @HailtoPitt bought into false information! Inconceivable!
Not to mention the VA is a major teaching hospital for med students, residents and fellows from Pitt Med. And pretty easy access for the Pitt faculty attendings to get to from their offices and labs.
The VA, in terms of its footprint, seems massive, like 3 times the size of Presby. I always thought those two streets of homes behind the VA (Brackenridge and Avalon maybe?) felt out of place.
I know the Pittsburgh Public Schools have been considering a massive consolidation plan -- any chance the Milliones/University Prep building, grounds, and ballfield could be up for sale to Pitt?
I know the Pittsburgh Public Schools have been considering a massive consolidation plan -- any chance the Milliones/University Prep building, grounds, and ballfield could be up for sale to Pitt?
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Pitt fans: Haha, that fan base is full of idiot fans who put football ahead of important things.
Also Pitt fans: Tear down the VA to build a stadium.
Nope. It was true. Here is the thread discussing it. Appears that you are the ignorant one. Again.
Pitt’s Chancellor’s Leadership Team
http://chancellor.pitt.edu/leadership/board-trustees A bunch of women who probably could care less about athletics, a Larry David look a like, and 2 of the men are Nitters - Ramicone and Scott. Lyke is the only person on that committee that has any background in sports. The Nitters on the...
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Milliones has been mentioned to close at times, but I don't think it is currently planned or seriously discussed for any closure. That could be your hypothetical stadium site. But good luck waiting on that.
The school board building on Bigelow, Sci & Tech Academy building in front of Benedum, and Milliones would all be great for Pitt to get a hold of.
i've finally reached the age in my life where i think heinz stadium isnt that bad of a stadium. something happens when you reach the backhalf of your 40s, things like convenience and accessibility come into play..
never thought i'd say it but im fine with keeping heinz as our home venue. some places outside to grab a beer or a bit to eat, still some surface tailgating left (although those days will soon be in the past) and you can get home east/west/north/south in about 30 minutes..
I say screw the on campus stadium and keep the acc, or whatever we call it now.
never thought i'd say it but im fine with keeping heinz as our home venue. some places outside to grab a beer or a bit to eat, still some surface tailgating left (although those days will soon be in the past) and you can get home east/west/north/south in about 30 minutes..
I say screw the on campus stadium and keep the acc, or whatever we call it now.
That thread does not define land given upNope. It was true. Here is the thread discussing it. Appears that you are the ignorant one. Again.
Pitt’s Chancellor’s Leadership Team
http://chancellor.pitt.edu/leadership/board-trustees A bunch of women who probably could care less about athletics, a Larry David look a like, and 2 of the men are Nitters - Ramicone and Scott. Lyke is the only person on that committee that has any background in sports. The Nitters on the...
Plus we have luxury box and club revenue .
Frankly the student sections have been tremendous the past decade or so , and far superior to any game I went to pitt stadium in the 90s.
And you were called out as the flaming, giant moron that you are in that thread. My lord you haven't a clue how things are run at universities.Nope. It was true. Here is the thread discussing it. Appears that you are the ignorant one. Again.
Pitt’s Chancellor’s Leadership Team
http://chancellor.pitt.edu/leadership/board-trustees A bunch of women who probably could care less about athletics, a Larry David look a like, and 2 of the men are Nitters - Ramicone and Scott. Lyke is the only person on that committee that has any background in sports. The Nitters on the...
Ramicone served Pitt for 30 years, starting under Wesley Posvar, helped oversee one of the greatest financial turnarounds in the university's history in his roles...helped grow the university's net assets by $2 billion in 7 years as CFO.
Gallagher, who himself was a Pitt grad, entire leadership team and where they did their own education:
Patricia E. Beeson
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor
Oregon and Oregon St
Kenyon Bonner
Interim Vice Provost and Dean of Students
Kent State and Penn
G. Reynolds “Renny” Clark
Vice Chancellor and Special Assistant to the Chancellor
Geneva college
John P. Elliott
Director of Internal Audit
Gannon
B. Jean Ferketish
Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Assistant Chancellor
Duquesne and Pitt, received award from Big East for women's sports contributions
Jeff Gleim
Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations and Executive Director, Pitt Alumni Association
Ohio State
Kathy W. Humphrey
Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Chief of Staff
St. Louis university
Clyde B. Jones III
Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Development
Penn State
Randy P. Juhl
Vice Chancellor for Research Conduct and Compliance and Interim Athletic Director
Waldorf and Iowa
Arthur S. Levine, MD
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine More
Columbia
Amy K. Marsh
Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer
Wittenberg and Northwestern
Albert J. Novak Jr.
Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement
St. Vincent and CMU
Arthur Ramicone
Chief Financial Officer and Interim Executive Vice Chancellor
Penn State
P. Jerome Richey
General Counsel
Pitt and Pitt Law, All-American distance runner at Pitt
Kenneth P. Service
Vice Chancellor for Communications
Canisius
Vijai Singh
Associate Chancellor
Lucknow and Wisconsin
Paul Supowitz
Vice Chancellor for Community and Governmental Relations
Indiana and Pitt Law
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serious question, which one of these women is the one that looks like Larry David? I seriously want to see what a femaie larry david looks like.
I’ve hoped that Pitt could get its hands on the SciTech site for decades now. It’s such a bigger footprint that in seems from street level - it’s the size of the entire Schenley Quad, and you could probably fit 1000+ student beds in that footprint without any real creativity at all.
