First of all, I know there are some current legal issues with the TV contract, the payoff for leaving, with the hallowed Big East name, with playing the hoops tourneys at MSG. IMO, none of those are insurmountable, especially with *cough* the brilliant legal mind running our university. But especially with the geeky moron in charge of the conference.

You have problems with the scheduling of the brawl? With the fact we need to schedule I-AA garbage because there aren’t enough conference opponents? With the ass-smooching given to Notre Dame? With having jokes like Marquette and DePaul in hoops only (keeping us from playing each of our hoops rivals twice a year)? With the retards who blatantly, desperately were ordered to give WVU the Brawl last year (and don’t think the garbage scheduling this year isn’t payback in some way).

Got problems with all those things? Petition Nordberg (or more important, all the trustees, since Nordy apparently has his nose up Tranghese’s arse) to get us out.

do you sell off your tickets like to do for the basetball games?

As far as tradition goes - it means nothing to anyone outside of PGH really - what the PITT, the BE and Media are looking at are $$, pure and simple. But that said, the Thanksgiving & Friday afterward are as close to tradition as PITT gets. That’s when all the PITT vs PSU and WVU classics were scheduled.

One of the most infuriating things I’ve heard this year was a Pitt student in line waiting to get into the Zoo. He was talking it up with the coach from Nova a few days before and told him he was from Philly and was secretly a bigger Nova fan. That is something I have a problem with. Whether you like the city or not, cheer for your school.