According to spokespeople from Penn State, renewing the football rivalry isn’t going to happen anytime soon. PSU’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, has a story on the rivalry that made me sick, especially hearing what this Penn State spokesman says.
“Current discussions by the Big Ten regarding the possibility of adding another conference game to the football schedule would limit our ability to schedule out-of-conference games,” he wrote.
Yes, it must be very hard to schedule and fit in all of those games against the Florida International’s and Buffalo’s of the world.
MacCarthy also said an additional football game would be a financial burden.
Yeah, it’s a huge financial burden to have the stadiums full at both schools while local hotels and bars fill up for the weekend. Other than the big wigs at Penn State, everybody else wants to see these games happen.
Borghetti said it is a shame that students at both universities do not know the importance of the rivalry that he “knew and appreciated.”
Some Penn State students said they would like to see a Penn State versus Pittsburgh rivalry reinstated.
Penn State doesn’t even have a real rival right now. They play Michigan State every year for a stupid trophy, but a yearly trophy doesn’t make a game into a rivalry (see: Pitt vs. Cincinnati).
Does PSU really think MSU thinks MSU/PSU is their big game…Try Michagan/MSU or even OSU/MSU.
Pitt/PSU will play again in the future, just ain’t going to happen for at least 10 years or so.
I am a freshman student at PSU (but a Pitt fan) and even I know that it is PSU’s loss by being greedy and not wanting to play Pitt in football. Some of the fans at PSU are truly delusion and irrational by thinking that their team is going to win the National Championship each year. It is truly annoying and turns everyone else off.
No one realizes that the longer that the Nits’ overrated decrepid piece of crap excuse that they try to pass off for a coach is still around, it will actually keep Penn State behind other teams in the Big 11 like OSU and Michigan, as well as possibly Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan State, and even Illinois in the future.
Scoreboard. It still says 0 from the last game we played. Go fuck yourself. Talk shit after you beat us – IN ANY FUCKING SPORT. What kind of moron talks shit after losing ALL of the last games played?
Nick – what are you doing? Transfer.
Let’s look at a few facts:
Pitt leads the overall series with WVU by more than 20 games, and although they’ve been dominated recently, the last 10 years has been 6-4 WVU. I think that Pitt-WVU is better than any rivalry that PSU has.
As for PSU, sure, they’re one of the better teams in the Big Ten, but the “Land-Grant game” is honestly one the biggest jokes I’ve ever seen, it’s very competitive it’s just not a rivalry, I’m sorry.
PSU v. Michigan has Michigan winning the last 9 meetings, so that hasn’t been good, and not to mention that Lloyd Carr is 9-3 all time against Paterno.
PSU v. Ohio State has OSU with a 7-0 record at the Horseshoe, and Paterno is 7-11 all time against OSU.
Those don’t appear to be the definition of a ‘ competitive rivalry’ either. Sure, the renewal of the rivalry may help Pitt more, but PSU needs a rival if they are to be taken seriously on a big stage eventually.
Also, I think that even when Pitt’s been real bad over the last couple of years, a hypothetical Pitt-PSU game would have been a decent game, even at Penn State, PSU would have probably won, but it wouldn’t have been a blowout with PSU’s subpar offense. Pitt is getting better recruits, and I think the gap will close over the next few years, and the rivaly will be renewed. I just don’t like it when PSU fans act like they are just miles ahead of Pitt in everything (I should mention the PSU basketball team here, just as one example).
And lastly, let’s keep in mind that three teams that Penn State lost to (Notre Dame, Michigan, and Ohio State) ALL got utterly obliterated and embarrassed in BCS bowl games. In my opinion, PSU fans should cringe just at the thoughts of them having to face the likes of Florida, LSU, or USC from last year. But hey, time will tell…let’s see what’s going to happen this year…I think both teams might have improved overall.
I still don’t see how a singular “rivalry” is a prerequisite to to validate a program. Take Rutgers, for instance. Who is their “rival”? A lack of a rival hasn’t hindered the improvement of their program.
In fact, I wouldn’t have considered Pitt a rival to Miami, yet that series assisted in Pitt’s recruiting efforts in Florida. How many of those guys came north to Pitt simply because they were scorned by “The U”?
I just don’t understand your logic that Penn State, as a program, requires a “rival” in order to be “taken seriously”. Taken seriously by whom?
By your logic, Pitt has no rival, either. Does that mean Pitt is taken less seriously “on a big stage”
I think the bottom line is that it makes no sense for Penn State to play Pitt in a 1 for 1. They can schedule anybody to play a home-and-done series (FIU or Buffalo) and then play in a 1 for 1 series with a team like Notre Dame or Nebraska once a year. Moreover, those games would end up being ABC prime time games. That sounds, to me, like a more serious game than an ESPNU broadcast of PSU/Pitt.
They are developing a rivalry with OSU, while its no OSU-UM, most rivalries aren’t. While it would be great to play Pitt, the through of having to go to that stupid city, play on a thursday night in a pro stadium with 12,000 fans in it just doesn’t appeal to anyone. Like was mentioned earlier, i’d just assume play Nebraska, Miami, ND, Alabama and so on…you know, a team that doesn’t go 6-6 and still not get invited to a bowl game…now that is something to be proud of.
Who wants a wanstash ride?
(to the tune of ‘if you’re happy and you know it’)
IF YOU CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE, GO TO PITT
IF YOU CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE, GO TO PITT!
IF YOU CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE, IF YOU CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE, IF YOU CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE, GO TO PITT!!!
The Orange, Mountaineers, and especially the Panthers would great additions to the schedule.
Lighten up Joe!!
Stop playing the MAC and lesser programs. If your the BIG 10 power, play a better non conference schedule.
