Comments on: “A Special Message From Steve Pederson”

by: Tom Lacko

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:26:56 +0000

Hello Steve,
I om=nly have one area of improvement I would appreciate. We sit close to a entrance to the seats and continually have folks strolling by during the time when their is a play in progress. I would like to have the ushers hold those folks at the steps until the play is over.

Thank you

by: Luke Ravenstahl

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:15:38 +0000

Strippers and free beer usually work!

by: Stuart

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:22:00 +0000

Not that it will ever happen, but i think it’d be great to clean up in hoops every year in the big pretend….we’d be a one or two seed almost every year.

And since everyone *still* thinks their conference is sooooo amazing, we’d get more respect for our wins, and could play a crap non-con and go to a bowl every year. Plus we’d sell out our stadium at least every other year because of our real rivalry…they couldn’t duck us…

I have no doubt this will never happen, just saying…

by: pidoublet

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:18:29 +0000

Get rid of all the lots being Pre-Sold. Let the fans who get there early get the parking spots. They want to be there and this will create a demand to get there early. Getting there early means more time to drink. More time to drink means crazier atmosphere. Crazier atmosphere means more demand for tickets, which equals sold out stadium.

by: Dan 72

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:53:33 +0000

For those of you that are youngsters…the Pitt Panther of 67-68 was named Bajeerah out of a Rudyard Kipling book, and was a cub.

My suggestions:
*Back to the old Pitt unis and make it permanent.
*Cut the noise out of the blaring speakers and mic up the band…I have sat all over the staduim and you cannot hear the band or the crowd noise over the speakers.

by: geeman2001

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:59:39 +0000

We need to win foremost. As many mentioned in Fitz’s final year there were excellent crowds for most games. EXCELLENT but not SOLD OUT. For that, we need more name opponents. I agree with Pitt79 about the Big Ten (of course, I’ve been saying the same thing since the ACC rape). Nobody gives a squat about any of our conference opponents other than WVU. Not saying people are sceaming for Illinois or Indiana but even those sound better than UYawn and South Florida (never mind we can’t beat them). And of course there would be frenzies over OSU, Michigan, and … there’s one other school there, I can’t think of the name at the moment.

Win first and foremost … then dump the amateur hour conference and it’s cheating refs and sniveling queer commissioner who lusts over the tiny hoops only schools. Get us into a conference that, you know, actually has the same schools in it for both football and basketball. Jeff Long was a glad-handing boob whose only talent was to schedule I-AA schools. He couldn’t or wouldn’t do it. I think Pederson could.

by: AJ

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:44:11 +0000

As a fifth year student season ticket holder and grad student, several things angered me about how student tickets were handled this year. It didn’t help that the athletic department moved the student section over from the 20 yard line to the 10 yard line. (they gave our section to recruits and the section is mostly empty) As a result of this move, all of the student seats on the first level of the stadium suck because you cannot see the other side of the field. Before this year, it wasn’t like that. What many students do including myself is buy the student tickets but go up to the front rows of the 500 level that haven’t been purchased by the general public. These seats may be a mile high, but at least you can see the whole field and the plays develop. Sure, it’s cool to sit near the visitor’s tunnel, but I drove 45 minutes and paid twelve dollars to park to watch a football game. Why did I have to pay $12 to park as a student for each game. As someone else previously said, the university has done a great job of screwing students over in the football experience. There are only about 100 parking spots for students and the only way you can get a spot is if you wait in line at the union at 7:30 am on Thursday mornings. This hurts people like me because 1) me and most college students have internships and classes that they are traveling to and attending at this time and 2) there are always those lazy kids who don’t go to class and would never think of waking up at such an hour. The university needs more student parking and better student seats to get kids to come to the games.

Also, we should put some blame on the students. As a commuter student, if I can make a 45 minute drive to Heinz, it’s pathetic that an on campus student can’t take the ten minute shuttle ride over to the stadium. Heinz Field is a great facility and there is no room on campus for a football stadium so students should suck it up, support the team, and yell/cheer at the games.

by: Dan35

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:33:41 +0000

Two specific requests regarding tailgating-

(1) Have a separate parking lot for tailgaters and let us spread out a little. As it is now, all the hardcore tailgaters in the Gold lots get wedged in the front with hardly any room for grills, tables, games, etc. I know there isn’t a ton of space down at the north shore, especially for a big game, but there has to be a way to work a couple empty spots in, especially for a Bowling Green type game.

(2) Those of us who get there a good 3 or 4 hours before the game end up parked in the front (good) and the furthest from the port-o-pots (not good). Put some damn pissers closer to the stadium- we’re the one who are spending 4 hours at the stadium and we have to walk a quarter mile, missing out on quality tailgating time to take a leak. Reward the hardcore fans.

by: bmac21

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:09:33 +0000

this is all great. hopefully pederson is reading it. anyone emailing him should include a link to these comments

by: Dennis

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:02:50 +0000

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the game that Jeff Long moved to a Wednesday night vs. Navy. Personally, I had no problem with it because I live 20 minutes from Heinz Field, but what about people like Chas who have to travel a bit more to games and can’t come on weeknights?

Where do you draw the line between playing odd game times/national exposure/on national TV vs. playing at 6pm Saturday night (and not on TV, or maybe ESPNU which no one gets) and allowing more fans to attend in person?