(08-16-2019 09:32 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(08-16-2019 09:28 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 08:08 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 03:48 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(08-11-2019 04:52 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Anyone who plays at an NFL stadium. Pitt, San Diego State, USF.

From an outsider's perspective, Pitt's situation didn't seem to work very well. Their move off campus coincided with their disappearance from national relevance. Sad that a team with such great history can't even get 40,000 people to see them play a top-10 Oklahoma State team in 2017.

I'm most familiar with SDSU, having lived there for 3 years. The stadium is about 5 miles away. It works well for them. I mean, it's not a historical football power and half the students are commuters anyways. An on-campus stadium would work better, but probably not a whole lot better. The taxpayers recently voted to give the land that the NFL stadium is on to SDSU anyways, so now it's technically going to be an "on-campus" stadium, even though most of the "campus extension" there will be retail, a park, and faculty housing. They don't have the money to add a lot of academic space or increase enrollment because state funding has been flat and they've chased off a lot of their big donors who don't share the SDSU administration's public disdain for capitalism.

Believe it or not, Heinz Stadium, where the Steelers play,, is not very far at all from the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. I think a Pitt fan told me it was like a 5 minute walk maybe? Regardless, I've heard it's close enough that the Pittsburgh students can walk to it.

No... No it's not.

Heinz is on the "North Shore," nowhere near Oakland.

Also, Pitt's campus is on top of a hill. A steep hill, too steep for buildings on all the direct routes. That'd be a heckuva climb back to campus after the game. Over the (Ohio) River and through the woods.

Google maps tells me it would take 1:24 to walk the four miles.

Is the actual distance all that relevant, though? Alumni and other fans in town don't live on campus. They are going to drive to the stadium and park at the stadium no matter how far away from campus it is.

When the team plays on campus, everyone going to the game goes to campus. They might walk through campus between the stadium and where they parked. They might tailgate on campus before the game. For a lot of alums, doing that is a regular reminder of their connection to the university. That's what a team/school loses when home games are off campus, regardless of whether the games are played 4 miles off campus or 24 miles off campus.