Pitt fan here.
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So what! We are fans and the game is on. Lame pride in this nonsense always makes me sake my head.
It's not like you can do a 4 game series, with any team, and start next year. Scheduling conflicts, with both schools, preclude this.
Maybe if you sum up both visits. To be fair that is 90% of the pitt fanbase.
The biggest benefactor of this is the city of Pittsburgh. They're the biggest winners. The Steelers Stadium may not need tarps in the upper deck.
I mean the phoney hoopla over this announcement was so overblown. It's like WVU announcing a series with with Temple or a neutral site game at Fed Ex vs a 1aa opponent. "Oh Boy!!"
Some of you guys aren't smart enough to realize how dumb you sound. I'm glad you're playing ISU because that's what you deserve.
Uh... WVU and VT will play at FedEx Field in 2017 and then a home/home beginning in 2021. It's already scheduled.
Jaime does not schedule tough games in OOC. He will not play WVU if he can help it. Futhermore, He isnt long for coaching since he cannot recruit after losing his two main recruiters. Dont look for Pitt and WVU to play in BB until they can Dixon.
Probably not in my lifetime, but I think WVU, PITT & PSU will be playing again on a regular basis. As soon as they figure out a way to bring in $$$$$. Like I said probably not in my lifetime but in the future. I would not be surprised that 20 years from now college football looks nothing like it does today. Regular season finales against ISU, Kansas St. & traveling hundreds of miles to your closest conference game will eventually lose out to geography and similar $$$$$. When......? I have no idea.
Oh no the ACC is going under as well as the PAC 12 and the Big 12 is going to take of the world. Hey if it gives ya hope have at it. No credibility. Overall operating budget super good with level books but thanks for the concern. And of course WVU and most other universities in same boat. But spin it how ya like.
Did you not read my really short one sentence post. I said annual as in every year. Like Georgia vs Tech. Like South Carolina vs Clemson. Florida vs FSU. The every year thing. What is it with some of you guys. Like Pitt had ND on schedule for 10 years. That's barely annual in my book. I'm the multiple decade thing. I don't see VT doing that. They aren't going all in with WVU. It's not a better than u thing I'm not saying that. It's a get the brand around thing.
I don't know if you actually believe some of the stuff you say on here but it's as if you go out of your way to defend the everything Big 12 as if nothing else matters.
WVU-pitt played for over 100 years for a reason and were on national TV every time they played as far back as I can remember. Back in 98 and 99 when either only one or both had losing records it was on CBS.
And they don't play for 7 more years because there's no room on the schedule. The only thing you're correct about is pitt wanting to play PSU for an extended time instead of WVU. But it makes all the sense in the world considering that is their instate rival.
pitt hates PSU like we hate them and PSU looks down on pitt like pitt looks down on us.
One doesn't just poo poo history or trivialize a great rivalry like that without sounding foolish. I remember a 2002? game where we won up there 24-17 in front of 67,000 and neither team had a great record.
Rivalries like that is what makes college football great and is not threat to any opponent we play in the Big 12, or take away from it.
The next time WVU plays Pitt a decade will have passed between games. Both schools were only willing to commit to 4 games after which you are likely to see another decade pass before we play again. And the reason that there is no room on our schedule is because WVU scheduled games with Missouri, VT, East Carolina, NC State, Tennessee, etc. and not Pitt. Pitt did the same by scheduling other schools like Marshall and not WVU.
The powers to be at both schools simply don't share your nostalgia for the Pitt-WVU game. And whether you want to admit it or not, most fans don't share your nostalgia either. Don't look now, but it has already been poo poo and trivialized to the point that the game isn't even played.
Penn State didn't extend their series with Pitt because the interstate rival doesn't make sense and not because it does. The backyard brawl isn't what it used to be and that has little to do with the Big 12. The real foolishness is clinging to a past that doesn't exist anymore.
The powers to be at both schools simply don't share your nostalgia for the Pitt-WVU game. And whether you want to admit it or not, most fans don't share your nostalgia either. Don't look now, but it has already been poo poo and trivialized to the point that the game isn't even played.
Penn State didn't extend their series with Pitt because the interstate rival doesn't make sense and not because it does. The backyard brawl isn't what it used to be and that has little to do with the Big 12. The real foolishness is clinging to a past that doesn't exist anymore.
I think that geography lost a long time ago. WVU used to play Waynesburg.
http://cfrc.com/encyclopedia/all-ti...ponent&name=west-virginia&opponent=waynesburg
its the WV way of doing things. Look at the numbnuts who think we should've turned the Big 12 down to remain in the AAC.
Well wbgvwbgv, geography may not be exactly the right term, but something along those lines. My simple point was that 1) I think the fan base in general would rather travel to Pittsburgh, State College, Piscataway ( Rutgers ) etc for both football and basketball for obvious reasons, & 2) there are many members of the Big 12 that have great rivalries among conference foes based primarily on location ( geography ). WVU is not one of them and never will be, hence there are going to be games played against conference foes with 1/4 of the stadium empty for several reasons and this Saturday and next Saturday will be an example. The general atmosphere and excitement at this weeks game against Iowa State ( or many other conference opponents ) will not now, nor ever compare to that of the game this weekend between Oklahoma & Oklahoma State or many similar rivalries within the conference. Not saying we should have stayed in the AAC, but in this particular case as in many $$$$$ comes with a price.
I have been to many a game at old Mountaineer Field, saying that I love being in the Big !2 and playing in a conference that actually want WV. Things change...a fact of life...I don't care if WV doesn't have a rival...it is not like the pitt game was electric the last few times played!!..I like the future ooc games scheduled plus the conference games...let's just play some damn football!!!
agree. People fail to remember rivalries take time to develop. Geography helps, but is not required. After years, any events can form or shape a budding rivalry. Ex: Notre dame with USC and Boston College. Neither is close in proximity. Fact is, if you play long enough you are gonna develop rivalries.
The Washington Post has no credibility?....ok hoss. LOL
How would you know what the books say at pitt, it's all a secret remember. Private school keeps it private. Funny how other private schools share this info but pitt doesn't. #pittpoor
How could it be "super good" when there is no revenue stream from football, and that's what pays the bills junior. You can't live off ACC $ forever, as pitiful as it is. WVU AD has run in the black for decades.
Oh, our little deficit this year is being covered next year when we finally get 100% of our Big12 dough.
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Well Punish-EER, I suppose what you say is true to some extent and it is true for several schools, and it will take time to develop rivalries. However one could say maybe some day Rutgers will develop a rivalry with Northwester, Illinois or Iowa just as WVU may someday develop a rivalry (both universities perceive it as a rivalry ) with Baylor, Texas Tech,OK State, or whoever, ( pick one, I have no idea who it would be ), but chances are it will occur when your great great great grand children are 80 if not older.
it's pitt, that's pitt - no a capital "p" ever, never. that's how it always was, always will be and always should be.
pitt with a little, tensy, winny "p" and bring em on in Orlando.
pitt with a little, tensy, winny "p" and bring em on in Orlando.
Hopefully, WVU, Pitt, VT and Penn State will end up in the same conference and make it mandatory to play every year. Otherwise, I don't see consistent matchups from year to year. Would also help with opponents' ticket sales given more drivable distances. Oh well, just dreaming.
I know. You have no idea pal and I do. Again have at what makes ya feel good. If you want to feel like Pitt is in a ton of financial problems then you should expect Pitt to dump their coaching staff and gut the entire program. And always believe what you read pal. BTW that liberal piece of sheeit Washington Post has no credibility IMHO.
3.5 billion endowment Pitt top 25 in country
500 mill. endowment WVU well not so high
Do some research pal. You come off as young and emotional. Will some of you guys knock some sense into this guy.
You don't want to go here pal
LOL
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Liberal?....it's a sports page idiot. Not the OP ED section. No politics there. Gawd your dumb.
Also, your endowmwnt is not used for sports, it is an educational endowement. You know, for professors and scholastic schollys. Man, did you go to pitt?...it shows.
Young and emotional? You are the pittiot on a WVU board whining, Now go back to your room and think about the 70's when pitt was relevant.
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Greg Jacob...another Loudmouth....with not much to say....except something about Baylor....a team that would run Pitt into the Mon...and liberals? Isn't Pittsburgh often referred to as Moscow on the Mon?
Let's do an easy reality check. On your side you have claims that the WVU-Pitt series and a PSU-Pitt series are so important and desirable by fans that anyone disagreeing with that position must be stupid or not honest about it. And on my side I have the simple facts that the games aren't currently being played, contracted games are scheduled way off into the future, and only a few games (total 4) are even scheduled.
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tight you hold on, it's already gone.
That's because anyone with a PA plate has a great chance of getting their car trashed by your inbred hillbilly fans. WVCC will be nothing better than a 7 win team in a conference where the closest school is 1000 miles away. I remember like it was yesterday how your fans wanted to join the ACC. Couch burning 101 just won't cut it with the ACC academic standards. WVU must be the only college in america that accepts out of state students with a 2.0 GPA. Being in the B12 is the worst situation your school could be in. But after the Big East dumpster fire, no other conference wanted your sorry ass community college.
Pitt opened this year with Gonzaga in Japan. As for being scared to play WVU, since 2000 Pitt is 17-7 vs WVU and Jamie is 7-4 vs Huggy.
You guys seem to forget that WVU had 2 losing seasons in the past 3 years.
And this is coming from someone who went to a commuter college attached to a network of Hospitals. Why should you care if your nearest conference opponent is 1000 or 100 miles away, Pitt fans don't travel anyway. We wanted to be in a power conference like everyone did - WVU just landed in a better one than Pitt with a lot more money distributed. You act like Pitt had multiple power conferences after them, but no one wanted you except for the ACC and you weren't even their first choice.
And don't think for a second that Pitt doesn't accept students with lower profiles. They just stick them in their branch campuses until they transfer to the main campus under the radar never to have been counted or reported. Your football program has been pathetic for 30 years now. The campus is probably the ugliest inner city campus in the country and the college experience there sucks. Your game day experience also sucks. The big concern going to a Pitt game wasn't about your car getting trashed, but more so the homicide and violent crime rate in the downtown & surrounding areas.
I would be bitter too if I paid the highest in state tuition in the country for public Universities (because of massive state funding cuts) and found out that graduates from Pitt earn essentially the same salaries as WVU graduates.
Pitt again has highest tuition among publics
http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=31265
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I think there are examples of vandalism and idiocy on both sides. All it takes in the Burgh to get your car trashed is a WVU sticker or plate....Been there. Don't think they give Rhode Scholarships to students of community colleges...More Pitt Fiction. I didn't want the ACC....actually prefered the SEC, but I'm happy where we are. I think most of us are. Don't think the ACC made their decision based on the number of couch burnings or even academics....if that were true Louisville wouldn't have been a candidate. The ACC I think is more of a basketball conference and that drove it more than anything else. The Big 12 is an excellent basketball conference. I don't think anyone here is unhappy with that either.
To each his own. Why some people feel the need to make sports about trashing people and HATE is a mystery. Sports is about entertainment. At least it used to be before the haters.
Here's the point.......ready......Pitt is really really healthy financially. You guys are desperate for Pitt's demise. Just be happy the WVU adim didn't listen to all the idiots here and fire Hogy mid season. The same morons you cater too.
Almost 12,000 post since 2001 and you have an incredible 13 likes. That is almost statically impossible. However, something to be proud of there partner. You must provide a lot of value added posts like this one.
You are an idiot..er um... Pittiot. What do I care? More importantlly Why Should you? Not your board.
This is for Greggy....
You really are protesting too much.....like you have something to hide. Anyway, I imagine that the whole university is financially sound while the athletic dept is a dumpster fire. You know, like how some companies have productive divisions while some divisions struggle. I really don't care as much as you seem to. We get it...pitt is great, yet you are here.
You really are protesting too much.....like you have something to hide. Anyway, I imagine that the whole university is financially sound while the athletic dept is a dumpster fire. You know, like how some companies have productive divisions while some divisions struggle. I really don't care as much as you seem to. We get it...pitt is great, yet you are here.
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in that time, how many Final Fours have you guys been in? How many sweet sixteens? How many elite 8's? That's what I thought, none.
They discovered college basketball....didn't exist anywhere before Pitt. I'm down on bended knee.
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