Season tickets?

[RINGGOLD94]

I can easily call tomorrow but hoping for some instant gratification tonight on where the hell are my season tickets and why can't I download them from my panthers account!?

Did they send an email on how to upload them? They are in my queue but I can't save them to my phone yet and the game is this week

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I can download mine. They were available sometime late last week. Thursday, maybe? Just to see if it would work I downloaded my parking pass for the first exhibition game and it came in to my wallet just fine.

 

[JD1976]

I can easily call tomorrow but hoping for some instant gratification tonight on where the hell are my season tickets and why can't I download them from my panthers account!?

Did they send an email on how to upload them? They are in my queue but I can't save them to my phone yet and the game is this week

I noticed that instead of promoting basketball season tickets during Penguins games the athletic department is promoting volleyball in their commercials. I guess SMF is right. Pitt is a volleyball school

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I noticed that instead of promoting basketball season tickets during Penguins games the athletic department is promoting volleyball in their commercials. I guess SMF is right. Pitt is a volleyball school

Please tell me they aren't wasting ad money on a non-revenue sport.

 

[Parkview57]

Please tell me they aren't wasting ad money on a non-revenue sport.

Are you happier to know they are wasting money on a revenue sport? Millions bring you this.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Are you happier to know they are wasting money on a revenue sport? Millions bring you this.

Of course. Pitt basketball makes money and has fans, as bad as they've been. I love that volleyball has been so good but they have like 19 fans who legitimately care if they win or lose. They do typically draw 2000 people or so, which isnt much different that a Pitt basketball game nowadays but the huge difference is, the volleyball people are there for a family night out and don't really care much about the result. Pitt basketball has a pretty large fanbase but its been unfortunately dormant.

 

[Parkview57]

Pitt basketball has a pretty large fanbase but its been unfortunately dormant.

Because..........

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Because..........

Uh, we suck. Obviously. The point is, its a revenue sport. Its a complete waste of time to advertise volleyball instead of men's basketball and you know this.

Here I'll make it easy:

Tickets start as low as $280 for the exciting new-look Pitt roster this season including games vs Preseason Top 5 North and the Backyard Brawl vs West Virginia.

Would Pitt sell any tickets because of those ads? Maybe not but I would bet a lot of Pitt fans dont know

a) Upper endzones are pretty cheap
b) We play WVU this year

Seems like money better spent than a commercial advertising an upcoming volleyball match where tickets are like $5. And you know this.

 

[Parkview57]

Would Pitt sell any tickets because of those ads?

It is easy to figure this out

Let's go back for the reason for the "dormant" fan base. I think that the reason for this is largely the Heather Lyke mistake of extending HCJC contract for no "traditional" reason (i.e. team success/accomplishments/growth, out of this world recruiting , or a "buzz" around the program) combined with the perceived arrogance of JC.

It can be presumed that as an intelligent person HL knows this, so instead of shining light on the mess, she moves the spotlight to......drum roll.....Volleyball. Pretty simple stuff.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

My question is....will the Pitt basketball fanbase ever come back, assuming we ever get to respectable again (A HUGE assumption)? Will there ever be a Pete with 10,000 - 12,000 fans routinely in attendance for any game in the next few years? I think the last 2 coaches have done some irreparable damage to this program that will be very hard to recover from, and the fans know it.

 

[Parkview57]

My question is....will the Pitt basketball fanbase ever come back, assuming we ever get to respectable again (A HUGE assumption)?

I think so, if Pitt wins, plays for ACC championship, etc. , I am not sure irreparable damage can be done, each generation (5-6 years) has its own desire to back a winner, IMHO.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

I think so, if Pitt wins, plays for ACC championship, etc. , I am not sure irreparable damage can be done, each generation (5-6 years) has its own desire to back a winner, IMHO.

Yeah, I think you're right. People, especially the younger generation, have the attention span of a gnat. Most fans won't remember what happened under Howland and Dixon and the successful years we had with #1 seeds and championships.

 

[pittchagg]

My question is....will the Pitt basketball fanbase ever come back, assuming we ever get to respectable again (A HUGE assumption)? Will there ever be a Pete with 10,000 - 12,000 fans routinely in attendance for any game in the next few years? I think the last 2 coaches have done some irreparable damage to this program that will be very hard to recover from, and the fans know it.

Pitt being good again and the Penguins being bad again will bring people to the Pete. Pitt being good again and the Penguins still being good will limit the ceiling for Pitt.

 

[JD1976]

Pitt being good again and the Penguins being bad again will bring people to the Pete. Pitt being good again and the Penguins still being good will limit the ceiling for Pitt.

I’m not sure I see a correlation here. The Penguins were in the Cup Final in both 2008 and 2009, which I think most of us would agree was the peak of Pitt basketball. Attendance was pretty strong for both. If Pitt is playing meaningful ACC games and in contention for an NCAA bid in February I don’t think the Penguins are going to diminish attendance one bit.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

My question is....will the Pitt basketball fanbase ever come back, assuming we ever get to respectable again (A HUGE assumption)? Will there ever be a Pete with 10,000 - 12,000 fans routinely in attendance for any game in the next few years? I think the last 2 coaches have done some irreparable damage to this program that will be very hard to recover from, and the fans know it.

Yes and no. If we get back to Dixon 2 success (bubble program), we will have Dixon 2 crowds (sellouts vs the biggest names, 8-10K for conference games, 3-5K for non-conference.

If we get back to Dixon 1 success, it would be 10K-12K for conference and 5K-7K for non-conference

 

[Duneaux Harm]

Will basketball come back In terms of people? If we are winning and competing in the Top Ten then the Pete will be more full. However, the beauty of it all before is that Brandin helped make the team a contender in the last year of the FieldHouse. So when the Pete opened you had an on the rise team and a really new and shiny arena. And we were good for quite a long time. But then when we started slowing down and in particular going to the ACC, crowds started leaning. Then two horrid coaching hires in a row Pitt is starting from zero. Problem is now that the Pete is old news so packed houses are of days gone by.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

Will basketball come back In terms of people? If we are winning and competing in the Top Ten then the Pete will be more full. However, the beauty of it all before is that Brandin helped make the team a contender in the last year of the FieldHouse. So when the Pete opened you had an on the rise team and a really new and shiny arena. And we were good for quite a long time. But then when we started slowing down and in particular going to the ACC, crowds started leaning. Then two horrid coaching hires in a row Pitt is starting from zero. Problem is now that the Pete is old news so packed houses are of days gone by.

I tend to agree. "More full" is a relative term. Right now, it means crowds of 4K - 5K for conference games. Far from the glory days when The Pete was new, as you said. I hope we get back to the 10K - 12K crowds, but I don't think that's on the horizon any time soon. A lot of things working against that.

 

[4Mark_Marty]

Fire Jeff Capel!!!