Answer my question, Jan. Your life is no better. Whose board do I belong on?
If Oregon and OSU can continue the ‘Civil War,’ why can’t Pitt and PSU renew their series?
- Thread starter HailToPitt725
- Start date
Far better chance of making the Backyard Brawl an annual game and far greater chance to win and not lose 51-6 at home.
Ironically enough, Pitt and Penn State stopped playing in basketball because Pitt was beating them so bad every year and they didn't want the beatdowns to continue.
Little did they know, we had Kevin Stallings in our future.
Are there really more than a couple Pitt fans who don't think that Pitt should be playing Duquesne in basketball every year?
The games at the Civic Arena / PPG were just fine every year. And I think that most Pitt fans think that way.
They played every season from 00-01 through 05-06 and Pitt won the last five in a row. The margins of victory in those five Pitt wins was 30, 22, 27, 13 and 37. That was when they decided they didn't want to continue playing us. Since then we've played them three times, once in the Big Ten/ACC challenge and then twice in early season tournaments in New York/New Jersey. We won the first two of those three as well, and then for the third of the three, Kevin Stallings and a 31 point Penn State win.
Pitt joined the Big East for ‘82-‘83. The only time they played between the year before that and the timeframe you mentioned was in the NIT once.
Their time as an every year opponent was over long before the ‘00s came along. Everyone just accepted it.
They signed to play us a long term series, and then declined to renew the series because we were beating them too badly.
I mean you might not like that fact for some reason, but it is a fact.
Actually Dixon didnt want to play PSU home and home because it was a waste of a road game.
Actually Pitt offered to continue the series and Penn State declined.
I always say because they got tired of the beat downs, but of course we don't know for sure if that's the case. It merely fits in with their MO.
The facts are these schools stopped being rivals that played every year in:
- Basketball after ‘81-‘82
- Football after ‘92
It was never a basketball rivalry as neither team was historically good and nobody really cared about it.
Why did it stop becoming a rivalry in 1992? The Pedophile Enabler felt playing Pitt wasn't worth the risk. He beat Pitt a lot, to be sure, but he felt losses here and there would help Pitt and hurt his program. The question is, why doesnt Iowa, Oregon, Washington, Georgia, etc feel the same way? The answer is because the Pedophile enabler is a low character piece of s*** human.
Again, this is why this series needs to not happen. Ugliness is inevitable, for a stupid game.
Whatever Paterno's position on the game was, he's been dead for a decade. He's no longer involved in the decision-making process.
Whatever Paterno's position on the game was, he's been dead for a decade. He's no longer involved in the decision-making process.
I’m sure I’ll be quickly corrected if I have this wrong, but I was under the impression PSU was okay with scheduling two games at a time periodically but Pitt wanted four minimum or no deal.
It’s not difficult to understand the reasons for PSU to only want two games at a time. PSU, like most schools needs 7 home games to maximize revenues. With a 9 game conference schedule, it’s impossible to schedule more than one “home and home” series per season and still get the required 7 home games.
PSU thinks it’s more important to bring in different schools each season (Auburn, WVU, Syracuse, Pitt…) than to play the same team (Pitt) every season.
I’m one of the few PSU alums I know who hope someday Pitt gets into the B1G and we can get the Thanksgiving weekend game back permanently. Unfortunately, the way things look, I don’t see it happening.
It’s not difficult to understand the reasons for PSU to only want two games at a time. PSU, like most schools needs 7 home games to maximize revenues. With a 9 game conference schedule, it’s impossible to schedule more than one “home and home” series per season and still get the required 7 home games.
PSU thinks it’s more important to bring in different schools each season (Auburn, WVU, Syracuse, Pitt…) than to play the same team (Pitt) every season.
I’m one of the few PSU alums I know who hope someday Pitt gets into the B1G and we can get the Thanksgiving weekend game back permanently. Unfortunately, the way things look, I don’t see it happening.
A few corrections:
- PSU will always have 7 home games. In the years when they play 4 B10 home games, they can play 2 cupcakes + a P4 at home. In years when they have 5 B10 home games, they can play 2 cupcakes + P4 away. Also, the "needing" X amount of home games was a myth. Jamie Dixon used the same excuse for not scheduling tougher
- PSU thinks its more important to play Syr, WVU, and Auburn because they have just as high a likelihood of beating them than they do beating Pitt and if they lose, it doesn't hurt them in recruiting as losing to Pitt.
PSU not scheduling Pitt is about protecting their territory because they feel that they will lose enough to hurt them.
At one time they were a rival! Luckily we still have the one that both sides openly admit they look forward to and hate each other, The Backyard Brawl!
