Reality with AD Greene

[CrazyPaco]

Yea, a significant portion of the fan base is delivering a message to the university. You just have misinterpreted the message which is: “ until you demonstrate that you have a clue on running a successful athletics department, we’re not investing in YOU because for 40 years all you have given us is incompetence and indifference, as reflected in the quality of the university’s major sports teams, which continues to be the case until this very moment.”

You are right, that is not how it is going to be interpreted by an administration which has no one that was there 40, 30, 20 years ago. Because at other athletic departments, the support will come regardless. See Nebraska. So the only way it is going to be interpreted is that the small, uninvested, and uninterested fan base isn't worth plowing the $45 million from university general revenue fund to subsidize the athletic department's $121 m in annual operating expenses (FY24 #s...that places Pitt in the top 30-40 of athletic departments in expenditures).

 

[forbesfield]

Unless Pitt is going to build an academic building or a dorm a parking lot is the only thing that can be built on that hillside.

What else is there for a college campus?

 

[Richard A]

What else is there for a college campus?

I can think of a lot of things to build but I might get in trouble! 😄.

 

[DaveTrout]

I had always heard that baseball was a thinking man’s game.

Baseball is a sleepy man's game.

 

[jivecat]

Baseball is a sleepy man's game.

I can't believe no one wants to sit for 3 hours at Cost field in March to watch a baseball game. I would watch any other sport before I was forced to go to a PITT baseball/softball game and the attendance figure agrees with me.

 

[BigChungus90210]

I can't believe no one wants to sit for 3 hours at Cost field in March to watch a baseball game. I would watch any other sport before I was forced to go to a PITT baseball/softball game and the attendance figure agrees with me.

Baseball games are enjoyable when the team is competitive. That's just not something anyone around here is used to seeing at any level, unless you're old.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I can't believe no one wants to sit for 3 hours at Cost field in March to watch a baseball game. I would watch any other sport before I was forced to go to a PITT baseball/softball game and the attendance figure agrees with me.

There have been games I planned on going to and then it's like 38 degrees that day so nope.

 

[ThePanthers]

My family and I love going to the Pitt baseball and softball games. Just not in march

 

[joefromlancaster]

I enjoy Pitt baseball games, just not in March.
Mid April games are .very nice.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

Universities shouldn't be supporting professional sports. If I had a billion dollars, I could think of a billion reasons for donating elsewhere.

In the SEC, they can think of a billion reasons to give a 5 star QB money instead of real charities.

I don’t think it’s a random thing that many of the SEC schools “just happen to be located” in the so-called “welfare states” - those states that live off of the federal teat - taking more money from the federal government via contracts, programs, and subsidies than they pay back in taxes.

 

[jtownknowitall]

I attend UPJ games occasionally. The pace is much better than MLB.