Unless you think that Pitt has a stadium already in Oakland to put the new stadium on Stanford and Houston are obviously not apples to apples comparisons. Stanford didn't have to aquire one square foot of new land for their stadium. They didn't have to replace one other building. Houston didn't have to aquire one square foot of land. They didn't have to replace one other building. The only way you can think that Stanford and Houston are the proper comparisons for Pitt is if you think Pitt owns a big empty plot of land in Oakland that they can start building a stadium on any time they decide to.
So tell us all, where exactly is this big empty lot in Oakland. I, for one, would like to see it. But hey, it has been a whole week since I've been in Oakland, maybe a lot has changed in the last week.