Recruits comments after visiting Pitt - my observation....

[NCanton Panther]

I'm not on twitter so I don't follow every little detail of what recruits say about schools that are recruiting them, but from just reading articles/interviews of recruits that visit Pitt, whether on here, Pgh Sports Now or elsewhere, it seems that there is one thing they cite way more frequent than just about anything else. And that's the # of recruits that mention how cool it is that Pitt shares a practice facility with the Steelers.

Don't know how much this ends up eventually influencing a recruits final decision, but how anyone can complain about the Steelers, Heinz field, hate the Rooneys, etc. etc., it's kind of hard to deny that our association doesn't have anything but a positive impact on recruiting efforts.

 

[Swervin27]

I'm not on twitter so I don't follow every little detail of what recruits say about schools that are recruiting them, but from just reading articles/interviews of recruits that visit Pitt, whether on here, Pgh Sports Now or elsewhere, it seems that there is one thing they cite way more frequent than just about anything else. And that's the # of recruits that mention how cool it is that Pitt shares a practice facility with the Steelers.

Don't know how much this ends up eventually influencing a recruits final decision, but how anyone can complain about the Steelers, Heinz field, hate the Rooneys, etc. etc., it's kind of hard to deny that our association doesn't have anything but a positive impact on recruiting efforts.

because they don't let us paint a bigger script at the 50 or paint pitt in endzones. that trumps everything else..

 

[Rockyhound]

I'm not on twitter so I don't follow every little detail of what recruits say about schools that are recruiting them, but from just reading articles/interviews of recruits that visit Pitt, whether on here, Pgh Sports Now or elsewhere, it seems that there is one thing they cite way more frequent than just about anything else. And that's the # of recruits that mention how cool it is that Pitt shares a practice facility with the Steelers.

Don't know how much this ends up eventually influencing a recruits final decision, but how anyone can complain about the Steelers, Heinz field, hate the Rooneys, etc. etc., it's kind of hard to deny that our association doesn't have anything but a positive impact on recruiting efforts.

Agreed. If Pitt were ever to build an on campus stadium, I hope they would continue to use the shared facilities with the Steelers.

 

[TheSeldomSeenKid]

Agree and this why even though I am a Raiders Fan, I want to see the Steelers do well and root for them like this year when the Raiders were not going anywhere after Carr got injured. The way I see it, the better the Steelers do, the more likely it will be a positive aspect for recruiting by PITT. This is why I think Godd Graham was an idiot by not embracing the relationship with the Steelers in his short time as the PITT Coach based on the stories I read.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

It is something they cite. Most of them seem to really like Narduzzi as well.

 

[Jpripper88]

I'm not on twitter so I don't follow every little detail of what recruits say about schools that are recruiting them, but from just reading articles/interviews of recruits that visit Pitt, whether on here, Pgh Sports Now or elsewhere, it seems that there is one thing they cite way more frequent than just about anything else. And that's the # of recruits that mention how cool it is that Pitt shares a practice facility with the Steelers.

Don't know how much this ends up eventually influencing a recruits final decision, but how anyone can complain about the Steelers, Heinz field, hate the Rooneys, etc. etc., it's kind of hard to deny that our association doesn't have anything but a positive impact on recruiting efforts.

This is kind of a chicken or egg type scenario. Recruits that interested in and weighing heavily the gameday atmosphere and big school experience aren't likely to visit Pitt, let alone consider them. In addition, even if they did, they are still unlikely to mention that negative when giving a report to a Pitt site. Maybe more than anything, it is pretty unlikely any of those Pitt sites are going to mention that negative in their articles/interviews.

Moreover, the kids who are picking or very heavily considering Pitt are going to mention positives. For them, if they didn't see the shared facilities as a positive, they probably wouldn't be coming to Pitt and they definitely wouldn't be coming to Pitt if they saw that as a big negative and they had a lot of other top options.

I think there is absolutely no doubt there are some positives to the relationship with the Steelers. I think there is also no doubt that Heinz Field gives us some gameday and gameday perception problems, which absolutely hurts us with some recruits. We just rarely get very far with those kids anyways.

 

[President Stache]

I'm not on twitter so I don't follow every little detail of what recruits say about schools that are recruiting them, but from just reading articles/interviews of recruits that visit Pitt, whether on here, Pgh Sports Now or elsewhere, it seems that there is one thing they cite way more frequent than just about anything else. And that's the # of recruits that mention how cool it is that Pitt shares a practice facility with the Steelers.

Don't know how much this ends up eventually influencing a recruits final decision, but how anyone can complain about the Steelers, Heinz field, hate the Rooneys, etc. etc., it's kind of hard to deny that our association doesn't have anything but a positive impact on recruiting efforts.

Ive been saying this for year. Every year it is the same thing.

NOT ONE ever says it is a bad thing. Not one

 

[vegasgreed]

Well, they are being interviewed by a Pitt site....

 

[Big Marty1]

Just Win

 

[PantherO]

If only the Rooney's would get black seats in the stadium.

 

[oldpantherfan]

It's defiantly a big positive for recruits, anyone that says other wise is just a complainer.
Wear you like big crowds, or being interviewed by Pitt site as a young an that has impress you.
Proctor a VT comment even said as much weather he flips not.
Winning will fill the seats , don't think look at PNC park prior to winning.and Narduzzi will take care of that.
Stop harping about the stands and go to the games " if your not part of the solution your part of the problem".

 

[Jpripper88]

It's defiantly a big positive for recruits, anyone that says other wise is just a complainer.
Wear you like big crowds, or being interviewed by Pitt site as a young an that has impress you.
Proctor a VT comment even said as much weather he flips not.
Winning will fill the seats , don't think look at PNC park prior to winning.and Narduzzi will take care of that.
Stop harping about the stands and go to the games " if your not part of the solution your part of the problem".

But not having our own facilities or an on campus stadium (and the gameday atmosphere people believe to be associate with that) is a deficiency for some recruits, so that just is not true. It is different for every kid.

Would we rather have Alabama's facilities all to ourselves or share with the Steelers? I think that is an obvious no brainer and sharing with the Steelers has little actual competitive advantage. However, our other option is to have below average facilities of our own and lag WAY behind. We don't have the first option, so we come out pretty good, thanks to the Steelers association.

 

[UPitt '89]

If only the Rooney's would get black seats in the stadium.

I'll settle for navy blue, like in PNC park.

 

[TheNoise88]

The seats are actually getting kind of bad after nearly 20 years. They are kind of due for new ones. Our luck, the Rooney's will demand the Stadium Authority pay to replace the seats, and THIS will be the one sole item the SA will show backbone on and refuse. The Steelers of course won't pay for it, so those seats will continue, still yellow but increasingly discolored yellow, cracked and broken.

That's a joke of course. The part about the SA resisting, that is. They do need replaced though.