Pitt Athletics has caught a lot of flack in recent years, but they deserve some praise.
I started going to spring games since Todd Graham held his one and only back in 2011. I've seen one at Heinz Field, and two at area high schools in the Pittsburgh area. They were always somewhat fun for me, but there always seemed to just be a feeling kind of hanging over each of them: this feels like what a small school would do. Yeah there was pop up things for kids to do and that sort of thing, but there wasn't any tangible buzz, it just felt like an event going through the motions to have it.