I understand that the Riverhounds do not want their field used for football. I don’t think it’s an option.

As for what could be done to Rooney, I agree you could build backward and remove street parking. You could also probably put stands on the Mellon side. You couldn’t do anything on the Towers side - there’s no room. Even if you put it on the roof of the field house you’d be blocking dorm room windows. I don’t think anything could happen on the away side without cutting way more into A-Walk.

There’s just nowhere to go with it. It’s obviously a problem but I don’t know that there’s an elegant solution. I suppose it depends on what Duquesne thinks the long-term vision is for football. We’re better off now than the MAAC days, though despite the autobid, the NEC occupies the low tiers of FCS just like the MAAC did.

Could try to buy Cupples from PPSD but that’d still require extensive renovation - it’s fine for HS but not for more. And that assumes they’d even want to sell. And that students would want to go to South Side for games. Perhaps they’d sell if the city league could work an agreement to still use it and then they benefit from any renovations.