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Penn State sucks.

(The Pitt fight song was recently rewritten to take out a pause during which "Penn State sucks!" was screamed. It's a one-sided rivalry, because the teams haven't played in a long time. Pitt would be happy to play Penn State again in football, but PSU demands two home games for every one played at Pitt.)

I don't actually hate Penn State, I just think the pseudo-rivalry is hilarious. The best part of football games is when a chant of "Penn State Sucks!" starts for absolutely no reason.

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the best part about the pitt-pennstate rivalry is that pennstate doesn't really care much about pitt, we care about ohio state, who incidentally also cares mostly about michigan (although OSU probably cares more about us now with our recent history). on the other hand, pitt fans seem to passionately hate pennstate.

we hate pitt about as much as we hate northwestern, which is to say, not very much.

Good summary. Pitt has largely been irrelevant since their glory days of the early 80s, and even with a marginally decent record under Walt Harris all you need to say is "Big East" to that. What do they have, Notre Dame and WVU?

There's always basketball...

Oh, well I thought in your post where you talked about only Pitt/PSU football that's what we were discussing.

I have no comment about our atrocious basketball team...

women's basketball!! :)

True. Penn State demands two home games for every one away game at Pitt because the football (and whatever tiny amount of money they raise from men's/women's basketball, if any at all) revenue pays for the ENTIRE cost of varsity Penn State athletics. They're very proud that none of our tuition is used for athletics. So they argue they need to have so many home games to ensure they continue to fund all of the other sports teams.

Plus Pitt would benefit from the rivalry much more than Penn State would. Pitt would sell out Heinz Field, something I'm not sure they have done other than maybe for a Backyard Brawl, while Penn State sells out over capacity for games against Florida International, as well as every other opponent.

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