Sandy Barbour saw Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi’s flippant comments about the future of the Backyard Brawl a few weeks ago and raised him in glibness with a remark given in an excellent piece Sunday by the Post-Gazette’s Craig Meyer on the death of local college football rivalry games. (If you haven’t read it yet, check it out right now, and then come back. I’ll wait.)
“I love college football. I love talking about rivalries, but what happens on Saturday afternoon with 107,000 people in a stadium is what our fan base, what our community, what our alumni and what our university get fired up about,” the school’s athletic director mused.