just saw that the rivalry between Pitt and WVU will be coming back- 2022-2025.

Glad to hear that. Now if we can get some of the old Big 8/12 rivalries renewed. Would love to see OU-Neb, KU-MU, and UT-A&M every year as well.

Oklahoma-Nebraska is set for 2021 and 2022.

I know Oklahoma/Nebraska have something set up in a few years.

Looks like ND and Michigan are trying to schedule games in the future also.

Pitt, WVU, Oklahoma and ND to the B1G?

Can't wait for those 2021 and 2022 seasons.

Why the delay?

I know that we have our hands full with the awesome and storied rivalry that is the "Civil ConFLiCT" with UCF, but getting UConn-Rutgers scheduled again would be great for northeastern football fans in the tri-state area.

(09-10-2015 03:13 PM)YNot Wrote:  Can't wait for those 2021 and 2022 seasons.

Why the delay?

both teams adjusting to new conferences, existing out of conference contracts, ect. Pitt not being able to play ND as much as they are used to in the coming future probably helped too.

(09-10-2015 03:19 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  I know that we have our hands full with the awesome and storied rivalry that is the "Civil ConFLiCT" with UCF, but getting UConn-Rutgers scheduled again would be great for northeastern football fans in the tri-state area.

Agreed. I had heard rumblings at a few points, but nothing has come to fruition thus far.

(09-10-2015 03:13 PM)YNot Wrote:  Can't wait for those 2021 and 2022 seasons.

Why the delay?

Really? We just had near 5 straight years of realignment.

(09-10-2015 02:29 PM)Phlipper33 Wrote:  Glad to hear that. Now if we can get some of the old Big 8/12 rivalries renewed. Would love to see OU-Neb, KU-MU, and UT-A&M every year as well.

Absolutely, those should be every season

Pitt should play Penn State and West Virginia every single year. At one time, those games were college football in the Northeast.

(09-10-2015 09:00 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  Pitt should play Penn State and West Virginia every single year. At one time, those games were college football in the Northeast.

+100

I'm assuming the basketball series will resume as well

Jackson

Jackson, the holdup on the basketball series is Jamie Dixon, not the AD.

(09-10-2015 02:29 PM)Phlipper33 Wrote:  Glad to hear that. Now if we can get some of the old Big 8/12 rivalries renewed. Would love to see OU-Neb, KU-MU, and UT-A&M every year as well.

WVU and Pitt both recently replaced their ADs, which probably indicates the direction those old rivals need to take before they'll be able to renew those old rivalries.

Fresh blood can often invigorate things.

(09-11-2015 10:29 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Jackson, the holdup on the basketball series is Jamie Dixon, not the AD.

(09-10-2015 02:29 PM)Phlipper33 Wrote:  Glad to hear that. Now if we can get some of the old Big 8/12 rivalries renewed. Would love to see OU-Neb, KU-MU, and UT-A&M every year as well.

WVU and Pitt both recently replaced their ADs, which probably indicates the direction those old rivals need to take before they'll be able to renew those old rivalries.

Fresh blood can often invigorate things.

Jamie doesn't like having things thrown at himself and the Pitt bench during games.

(09-10-2015 02:29 PM)Phlipper33 Wrote:  Glad to hear that. Now if we can get some of the old Big 8/12 rivalries renewed. Would love to see OU-Neb, KU-MU, and UT-A&M every year as well.

They'll all be back.....at a price.

I love all these games coming back and am happy to hear of them scheduled.

That said, very small chance of any of these announced series (Pitt/West Virginia, Penn State/Pitt, Nebraska/Oklahoma) or unannounced ones to become annual again. Most modern scheduling realities simply don't push for annual out of conference games, especially after you get to 9 conference games. The existing ones should be OK (especially since outside of the Notre Dame vs. UCS/Stanford we're talking about ones involving teams with 8 conference games), but the rest will probably have to hope for, at best, to be regular series (maybe 4 times in 10 years).

I favor the return of the basketball series as well. However, the last time Pitt played at West Virginia one of the Panthers' assistant coaches got hit in the face with a coin thrown from the crowd. That's the type of stuff that simply cannot happen and has been all too common in games played in Morgantown.

(09-11-2015 07:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  I love all these games coming back and am happy to hear of them scheduled.

That said, very small chance of any of these announced series (Pitt/West Virginia, Penn State/Pitt, Nebraska/Oklahoma) or unannounced ones to become annual again. Most modern scheduling realities simply don't push for annual out of conference games, especially after you get to 9 conference games. The existing ones should be OK (especially since outside of the Notre Dame vs. UCS/Stanford we're talking about ones involving teams with 8 conference games), but the rest will probably have to hope for, at best, to be regular series (maybe 4 times in 10 years).

I think Pitt/WVU could potentially be annual or close to it as long as the ACC stays at 8 games.