The Lions' Pride

I'd rather rotate thru the ACC / ND more regularly than play Pitt every year.

Virginia Tech, ND, Miami, FSU, UNC, Clemson would be way more fun.

You can't have Pitt, UNC, ASU, and Indiana St. as a schedule every year because 3 of those schools will demand a return game. Please explain how with that we can get 8 home games a year. You can have at most 2 home and homes at a time. 3 does not work out.

You also keep comparing the competitiveness of Pitt with Ohio and Navy and the like. That is not the issue. The issue is Pitt demands we play them in Pittsburgh, while the others don't..

This whole discussion could be mute if the new 4 team playoff scheme include a strength of schedule criteria. Then hopefully larger schools will only be able to schedule only one Cream Puff school early in the season. The NC games should be one cream puff, one Pac 12 game, two schools like Pitt, Temple, Cuse, or some Conf USA teams. Should make for some more exciting game early in the season. Let's hope the NCAA makes the right choice on their criteria for rating the top four teams.

This talk about things playing in Pitt's favor is hilarious. They're a local school where a lot of our friends went. They hate us and we hate them. Playing someone like that is fun. If we beat them 9 out of every 10 years nothing will play in their favor. The only way things play in their favor is if we lose to them, and if we can't field a team that beats Pitt we have big problems whether we're playing them or not.

If you want to make the argument that you'd rather keep the date open to play someone like Alabama then ok, that's a legitimate argument. I disagree with it though because I think during this Pac 12 series we'll have a lot of fun playing USC/Oregon/Washington/Stanford in good years, and even in bad years we'll still get someone like Wazzu or Arizona or Cal which isn't a horrible game.

Well first of all if BOB wants to do it then there must be a way to get it done b/c he would know more than anyone about how the schedule needs to be made to keep the school in good financial shape. Like I've stated before other schools have yearly out of conference rivals that they play and they don't seem to be going broke. If the 3rd most profitable college football can't afford to do it there's something wrong. If we played the Bama's/ND's/Texas's of the world more often I might agree with you but it seems like we get more of the Rutgers/Syracuse/Temples of the world then we get those schools. Also, playing around the country is great and all but how has that worked for schools like ND? They play around the country all the time and it hasn't helped them.

Heaven forbid that the The Pennsylvania State University does something for PA fans! Also, Pitt having one game full of PSU isn't going to help them as much as PSU consistently playing in one of their major recruiting areas. Also, the package deal argument doesn't hold much water considering I can get online and buy my ticket from StubHub or from a scalper.

If BOB wants to do it, fine. Let the man go. Its his program and the admins have given him some reign to do stuff. Im happy with what he has done so far, and I would love to beat the snot out of Pitt. Im done arguing this with the flippin ambulance chaser and the PA fanboys that think this rivalry matters to America.

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I'd agree they shouldn't be allowed to pull that packaging ticket BS again. I'm sure that would be a very easy concession to get them to make.

Making the argument we shouldn't play an OOC game at a 60,000 seat stadium is penny wise and pound foolish. It's like a company slashing their investment in research to save a few dollars in the short term instead of improving the product in the long run. Letting us play our natural rival greatly improves our product. I also think PA prospects will want to stay home and play in this game instead of head south or west, especially when all of their friends and old teammates are on one side of the rivalry or the other. This would just be good for Pennsylvania football as a whole, and Penn State would certainly benefit from that.

Honestly, I tried to be whatever about this. I understand why the rivalry matters from a pure fan point of view. I got mad of the little potshots from someone that complained I was talking down to people the other day. Thats how its going to be played, fine. I'll be an ass.

Tbh, I am more worried about the people on our schedule than the schedule itself because we have no say in it at all. Im looking forward to the Pitt series in the future.

Haha keep it classy. Oh and you'll hate on lawyers till you accidentally injure someone or get wrongfully charged with a crime and then you'll be running to the closest lawyer you can find!

I don't really think I was talking down to anyone. I was the one who got attacked for basically saying I know it won't happen and I know most people would be against it but I would like to play Pitt every year. Then I was called selfish and retarded in a matter of 15 min.

Aww son of a...

First time I will be rooting for BO'B to fail is if he tries to make this go through. Waste of time, boring, etc. Helps them, and we get little to nothing out of it. And of course, we already have enough MAC or Ohio Valley or whatever match - ups :)