Let’s have a “Steel City Classic” at PPG Paints each year to start the season:
Thursday night: Pitt vs RMU
Friday night: Duquesne vs RMU
Saturday night: Duquesne vs Pitt
Why did Capel discontinue City game
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Thursday night: Pitt vs RMU
Friday night: Duquesne vs RMU
Saturday night: Duquesne vs Pitt
Or even...winner of Duquesne vs RMU on Thurs gets Pitt on Sat.
Are they like 90 in NET and it would’ve been neutral court? How is beating sub 300 teams like SC State and Jacksonville better?
I know I really enjoyed the Steel Bowls back in the day. Saw UCLA with Wooden. Oregon with Harter. UNLV with Tarkanian. Plus othee good teams and HC’s.. In addition to Pitt & Duquesne.
But you don’t necessarily know when you schedule these lesser OOC teams before the season where they might wind up.
This year? Could’ve worked out well. But you don’t know.
They’re always higher than those two teams and it’s neutral court
He said the N word in some context pregame or postgame while at Central Michigan as head coach
Times have changed though, those two teams haven’t met in quite a while and RMU’s program has pretty much gone into the toilet since then. The move to the Horizon is part of that to be sure, but they weren’t doing very well their last few years in the NEC either.
OK. So why does Duquesne refuse to play them? Should be a nice win for the Dukes.
Pitt opened up RMU’s new building by playing there.
Duquesne is criticizing Pitt for doing EXACTLY what Duquesne is doing. That’s the definition of hypocrisy.
I’m not disagreeing with your original premise, all 3 of those teams should be playing each other every season.
I’m not disagreeing. But I’m not the decision maker for any of those programs, either.
Think I recall a tournament one year that had Pitt, Duquesne, PSU and WVU back in the day. Only lasted 1 year if I recall.
But times change. People change and relationships change.
I recall Rick Barry playing for Miami in the Steel Bowl too.
Keep Pitt/Duquesne/RMU as its own thing, but let’s also create an MTE with Penn State, Pitt, Villanova, and WVU…. a little throwback to the old Eastern 8 days.
All time, Duquesne's record against Robert Morris is only 16-12.
That's the difference between Pitt and Duquesne's views on these series. Pitt's fear of an embarrassing loss to Duquense, given the last 40+ years of history between the two schools, is mostly overblown. Duquesne's fear of losing to Robert Morris, not so much.
Also, Duquesne's media guide doesn't list their games against every opponent separately like Pitt does, but unless I missed one, in the last eight games that they played before Duquesne stopped scheduling them, the tally was Robert Morris 7 wins, Duquesne 1 win.
I would think they could have a tourney here with Pitt, Duquesne and attract teams like UC or some the former Big East rivals.
yeah I was 14. I went to school with Tom Richard’s wife.
Since February of 1982, Pitt 36, Duquesne 4.
Literally, for the last 42 years we've beaten them 90% of the time. Including 17 of the last 18.
I was rooting for DUQ to win the A10 and get in. Good for them and I will root for them.
But I could give a rat's @ss about Pitt playing them. Don't care about that game at all. And playing DUQ this year would NOT have pushed Pitt into the NCAA tourney. That's the dumbest thing on the internet tonight. Yeah, like the selection committee looked at our resume and thought 'man, if they just had a win over Duquesne then they'd be worthy'....lol...that's dumb
But I could give a rat's @ss about Pitt playing them. Don't care about that game at all. And playing DUQ this year would NOT have pushed Pitt into the NCAA tourney. That's the dumbest thing on the internet tonight. Yeah, like the selection committee looked at our resume and thought 'man, if they just had a win over Duquesne then they'd be worthy'....lol...that's dumb
He was afraid of losing. Ironically, this is the ONE year where beating Duq may have helped Pitt.
True. Since we already play WVU, a Pitt/WVU/DUQ/RMU round robin might be fun. I don't really care about playing DUQ or RMU, though when we played the first game at RMU's new arena, that was a fun night. Very electric atmosphere for a RMU game.
