Every season there are College Football teams without home stadiums. Let's talk about the 8 such teams in the FBS for 2024. My other stuff: linktr.ee/cfbudge
The Steelers and Pitt have a history of sharing stadiums. Steelers used to play at Pitt’s old stadium. Heinz Field (always Heinz Field) was planned for both the Steelers and Pitt.
USF announced about 2 months ago that the stadium was pushed back a year and they gave real renderings of the stadium. The picture that you used was a hypothetical stadium to get the ball rolling on the new stadium.
KU is also playing a few games at Sporting KC stadium as well. As a KU fan I’m excited for the upcoming season, but also surprised that it only took a couple bowl bids and an actual coach to make the athletics department actually fund the team
I'm still ticked KU stole Lance Leipold away from Buffalo. I understand it's part of the game, but the Power 5 won't let the mid-majors have anything nice.
@@tygrkhat4087 We were basically not a power 5 school until Lance Leipold joined us. We were one of the worst teams of the nation. It looks great on his resume to turn KU into the program it is today.
@@DumbTigerOh, I understand why Leipold went to KU; he made UB a top 25 team for the first time ever and it's understandable why KU wanted him. It happened three times to UB basketball coaches; Like I said, it's part of the game; I just don't like it. As for Leipold's resume, he's a multiple D-III National Champion with Wisconsin-Whitewater, so he's got the skills. Fun fact; one of Leipold's few losses at WI-Whitewater was to my actual alma mater, Buffalo State. Put Buff State in the D-III Top 25 for a week.
They had been talking about stadium upgrades for years. It’s just that they finally got an AD in Travis Goff that actually cares about the whole athletic program outside of just the basketball team
UNLV plays at Allegiant field, but the builders made two fields, one for the Raiders (grass) and one for UNLV (turf). They are able to move one field out and put the other in its place. That was quite expensive for a team that is on its way out.
If I understand the story correctly, it was a joint venture. Sheldon Adelson wanted UNLV marks to be visible during Raiders games, but the NFL predictably shut that down.
as someone that lives in the town its going to be more then football games with concerts and other events as its going to be bigger then the united center
I actually met a Northwestern fan this evening in the wild. Waited on him at a restaurant. Dude ordered a burger, fries with no salt, and zero drink at all, not even water. Insane. This was in virginia so kinda crazy to me.
5:22 The Pitt Panthers and the Pittsburgh Steelers have a strong partnership not only with Heinz Field, but Pitt also shares the Steelers' practice facility on Pittsburgh's South Side with their own dedicated facilities. As far as building a new on-campus stadium, that's highly unlikely to happen since the campus is fully built up (the Pitt Stadium site was demolished to make way for the expansion of Pitt's medical center).
This is the newest trend. Downsizing capacity for creature comforts. Our new stadium will seat less than Old Memorial but is a huge upgrade. And it leaves room for expansion.
USF's stadium's opening was pushed back to 2027. As for Pitt, I'm not sure it's truly homeless since it and the Steelers run Acrisure Stadium as a tandem. That's a different situation from everyone else mentioned here, especially with Pitt being only a few miles from the venue. USF's main campus in Tampa is all the way across town from Ray Jay (11 or 12 miles; drive of 20+ minutes).
By that standard, UNLV isn't homeless either. Them playing at Allegiant Stadium was a requirement by the State of Nevada for the Raiders to use public funding
It’s worth pointing out that UNLV’s previous stadium (Sam Boyd Stadium) was 8 miles away and in a different city. The Raiders stadium is way closer to campus.
I wouldn't say a different city. All these "cities" around Vegas aren't really. I would've lived in Whitney (or East Las Vegas as it was once known) when I first moved there.
Pitt Stadium was so cool, as are many of these old demolished venues like Temple. I read Temple will never get another stadium because the people in the neighborhood don't want all the traffic and illegal parking.
Memphis was but just a few weeks ago the city of Memphis gave the Liberty Bowl to the university. Renovations are on the way but the Tigers will play thru them as one side will remain unchanged.
Those UNLV stadium plans were from the early 2010's, meaning before there was any talk of the Raiders moving to Las Vegas much less the construction of what would become Allegiant Stadium. UNLV will keep paying rent to the Raiders for the forseeable future.
OMG we moved to Las Vegas in January of this year. Lordy that UNLV field is abysmal! In the middle of the day there is....ZERO I mean ZERO shade! Thankfully, I think they play at Allegiant stadium now
Temple was gonna build a stadium on campus but the community protested it since North Philly is a low-income area and residents are concerned a stadium would further gentrify the neighborhood. I think that Temple needs a stadium, the Linc just is a bad atmosphere for the attendance and it’s literally on the other side of the city (although it’s on the same subway line). Temple just needs to figure out how to not screw over the community first tho if they wanna build it
Also, temple sucks at football, which I say as a current temple student. The only reason you saw a big push for a stadium on campus a few years ago is because we were actually pretty good back then. Now that we've gone back to sucking, there's no desire to put in all the effort of building a north Philly stadium
I don’t think the size of nfl stadiums is the problem for most programs (especially most P5), but the distance from the campus makes a difference. While temple may have a quick train ride to the Linc, casual fans other places might not want to drive an hour for a home game .
The Orange Bowl wasn't a home stadium for Miami either. It was closer to campus but that was it. Also, the Orange Bowl was horrible, old, run-down, and constantly having plumbing and other infrastructure problems. Nobody was going to put enough money into it to make it the stadium the Canes deserve.
The only detrimental thing about Hard Rock is it being far from campus. Games are awesome and loud even 1/4 full. They have a DJ that plays dope music instead of Sweet Caroline and the like. Something ethnic recruits love.
Miami is trying to extend the MetroRail up to Hard Rock Stadium for the World Cup in 2026. If that gets built, then Miami students will have a one seat ride up to the stadium every 5-10 minutes or so from campus and attendance will probably increase
Should never have left and that for both the Canes and Fins. Neither team has done anything since heading to Hard Rock and the Marlins haven’t advanced beyond the division series since moving onto the former Orange Bowl grounds. Switch locations and that will solve both problems.
Indeed. IIRC, Aloha Stadium was closed because the climate made the steel used for its construction rust faster than anyone had anticipated, and having to source more climate-resistant materials is what's driving the price up and the construction timeline back. IAH, it's amazing that Hawai'i still competes at the D1 level because of how fiendishly expensive it is just to get there. And even with dropping down to the Big West Conference for all sports other than football, the budget for flying a few dozen teams back and forth across half of the Pacific Ocean must be astronomical - and at one point in time they shared a conference with Louisiana Tech.
As a UH alum and someone born and raised on oahu, its aad to see oue FB program in its current state. I was a senior in HS when we went to the sugar bowl in 07 and we used to be able to sell out aloha stadium with 50k people. By the time aloha stadium was condemned, there were usually less than 15k in attendance for the games. It sucks
Pitt might be the only college team playing in an NFL stadium that makes sense because they sell out the stadium. Miami should've stayed at the Orange Bowl and made renovations because it fit the image of the team. Their playing at Hard Rock Stadium has I think hurt them in every way.
UTSA will always play at the Alamo Dome and have no intensions of building a stadium. UTSA is arguably a commuter school. Playing their games in downtown San Antonio allows the University and city to hold an event every home game. San Antonio is all about events, the Riverwalk, etc. It works well for both of them.
There have been talks to build Temple a new stadium for decades but as you said it's never gotten off the ground. They used to split time between Owl Stadium and the Vet. Now they're lost in the Linc. I mean Villanova has their own stadium. Penn has their own stadium. Temple should have their own stadium. Believe me, if they were a more competitive program they would have by now.
I think Kansas playing in KC is a good litmus test. How will they fill a bigger football stadium when they suck again and are at the bottom of the new Big 12? Let's see how they fill Arrowhead
@@vernonsheldon-witter1225 you officially sucked not last year. Kansas has about 20 years in between good seasons, and one good year is not an upward trend, it's a bullet point on a coaches resume. Realistically, are KU students going to make 8 trips to Missouri for two years to see their school play what is essentially a neutral-site home game against K-State and Iowa State? I'm in KC regularly. It's not as KU heavy as someone not from there would think.
USF has not "played around at a couple different ones". The inagural season, 1997, was played at Tampa Stadium. Raymond James Stadium would open the dollowing year, right next door. USF has played at RayJay ever since (with the exception of playing one home game in Boca Raton in 2022 due to Hurricane Ian). Please do a little more research or be more precise.
Aloha Stadium had to be torn down due to being right by water. The moisture was destroying the metal and rusting everything away. Its heartbreaking because I feel like they could have the most beautiful stadium if placed properly.
True but our stadium is 30 minutes from our campus and is not owned by the university nor was is built for it. The Alamodome is a nfl stadium that never got used so the local university took it to be there own.@CFBudge
@@eu4zebo There are other colleges with similar situations, and that would make a way longer video. Ex: UCLA plays in the rose bowl, which is very far away from their campus
Not that I really think any of these colleges would do this, but not having your own on-campus stadium makes it much easier for a college to drop their football program. Look at UAB when they played at Legion Field, and now how much stronger the Blazers' football program is now that they have their own yard.
If I had the problem of being homeless, I would focus on building a stadium of the "right" size on or very near campus. Sharing a facility on a temporary basis is OK, but long term it is better to have your own facility.
This was a interesting video up until the end. While PItt and UNLV don't have their own true stadium to play it, I wouldn't call them "homeless". The first ones that are due to construction and etc, are yes. But those who have been playing with NFL teams are not "homeless". Like mentioned with PItt, one of the big stipulations for the raiders to even come to las vegas, was that they would be required to let UNLV play at Allegiant, and the team despite filling up the stadium, makes more money from playing there than it costs for them to play there. There has actually been no new plans to build a new stadium for UNLV, and the renderings for that were from over a decade ago. They don't even wear those uniforms anymore. Kinda disappointing. TheUSA today has an article about what is being mentioned in the video...from 2013.
It kind of makes sense for a college team to share a field with a pro team. Football stadiums are the most underused sports facilities. An NFL team including preseason will host 10-11 home games per season. Why not get a college team, that plays on a different day of the week, to fill another 6-7 home dates?
The new Ryan Field at Northwestern will have a much SMALLER seating capacity, going from about 47,000 at the original to just 35,000 at the new one. You have that backward in the video.
Your comment about Texas high school stadiums being bigger than that of Hawaii's is correct. Allen High School has a stadium that can seat 18,000. Ratliff Stadium in Odessa can hold 19,302 people. And Memorial Stadium in Mesquite can hold roughly 20,000 people.
I was just in Hawaii. Meet a guy who is working on getting Hawaii a stadium. Try 2029 or 2030 before they get it. Funding, permits , and limited space are still an issue.
Aloha stadium was great and it is so disheartening that a state like Hawaii that gouges every tourists that visits does not have $5 for their own residents. 🤷🤷
Having grown up in Las Vegas, Allegiant is such a W for UNLV. Sam Boyd sucked, and the concessions are way better now, too. Just an all around better time.
the reason they can't fill up the pro stadiums is their programs are on a down turn...Michigan has no problem filling 110,000 Penn State has no problem filling 106,000 Alabama has no problem filling 100,000 Texas has no problem filling 100,000 as well as other programs with big stadiums that are larger then NFL stadiums. Those stadiums are 20k - 40k more than the average NFL stadium.
They were just tired of sharing with USC, and the Rams and Raiders, depending on which years we're talking about. No sharing with any Div 1 or NFL at the Rose Bowl.
UNLV isn’t really homeless as the raiders offered the school millions of dollars to play in their field instead of their own stadium so if anything is like living rent free in
In honestly why haven’t anyone made a NCAA animation series: Just picture a episode called “homeless” of college teams without stadium moving into their parents home (NFL) and have run down of the theme. Be adult cartoon type of thing
@21234u I believe can believe that but nowadays a football stadium witch I would love the “U” to have they probably don’t see 85% as a reason to spend close to 1 billion on a college stadium.
If anything happened to Ohio stadium I'd have the Buckeyes play in Cleveland. Because Cleveland browns stadium seats more people than paycor stadium and considering that State college ,pa ,Boomington in, are along the turnpike which the Ohio section goes just south of Cleveland, plus the western section goes south of the Michigan state line accessible tn East Lansing and Ann Arbor. And why the hell just talk to the Bears about using Soldiers field
I’m not a Pitt fan but Steve pederson was a wacky AD for Pitt and completely went nuclear to the traditional Pitt Panthers colors and made some terrible decisions beyond moving the football program off campus. They got rid of the stadium to compete in the big east more competitively for basketball and their was high demand for a student Rec center for a long time. It seems now Pitt has stability in the athletic program. However attendance is bad due to students not wanting to ride the busses from Oakland to Heinz Field.
It was too expensive to rebuild Pitt stadium and the cost center. Pitt would have had to demolish most of the upper campus to build everything they needed. Including a new football building also.
@@robertmathis4268 However Steve pederson was not the person that should have been put in charge of the changes. They could have gotten somebody else to oversee the changes. He seemed to be a grifter and only cared to benefit himself.
“Homeless” means they don’t truly have a permanent home like Kansas and NW atm, Miami/UNLV/etc aren’t “homeless” just because they don’t have an on campus stadium lmao.
Northwestern is actually shrinking down their stadium, not making it larger, Hawaii is small but it is on campus so not really "homeless", The Hurricanes did not own the Orange Bowl so it wasn't really "theirs", then I stopped watching this video.
I love football but if these colleges need outside funding (tax funded, yes I realize some of these are public institutions) then they don't need em. Between merchandising and tv deals, boosters and future attendance oh and stadium sponsorship there's no reason to hike taxes. Imagine a bridge collapse cause the area funnelled taxes away from actual important things. I still don't know why the Vikings got state taxes to help with their stadium after I35 collapse. It's that Minnesota kindness I bet lol. ✌️
these are also not the teams that draw 100k. only the biggest brands can do that… think alabama, ohio state, etc. miami is the biggest brand here, but they have a small student body and alumni base. kansas, northwestern, pitt and the G5 schools mentioned never played in 100k+ stadiums.
Homeless - not having a home. most of these teams have a home. by your "definiton," most people are homeless if their name is not on the house/apartment. sharing a stadium with a nfl team does not mean they are homeless.
