James Franklin's Reluctance to Renew Pitt vs. Penn State Rivalry
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00:00How do you feel about James Franklin being afraid to play Pitt?
00:07Like when I grew up, Pitt and Penn State played every single year, my entire life.
00:13And now Penn State is afraid to play Pitt.
00:16And I don't know why.
00:17Because if Penn State's such a badass football program with their 105,000 fans and their
00:23white outs and they're, and they never win a big game in a big 10 to save their ass,
00:27but they're afraid of Pitt.
00:28Like honestly, this guy, Franklin's afraid to play Pitt.
00:32You know it.
00:34It's really bizarre.
00:36I love that Pitt-Penn State game and growing up in Pittsburgh, I hated Penn State until
00:41I went there.
00:42And then the first couple of years we played them and then they stopped it and I never
00:46understood why, but they went to the big 10 and there wasn't enough room in the schedule.
00:52This dates back to Paterno, you know, he wanted to keep it alive, couldn't.
00:57Now it can be revived.
00:59I mean, the Pitt-West Virginia game, the backyard brawl, it becomes a national story.
01:04It's a big game.
01:05Pitt-Penn State, if Pitt continues to rise up, I still think it's a huge rivalry.
01:12I don't know why they don't play it.
01:14They should play it.
01:15I'm in agreement with you, but college football is going to be a mess, Scotty.
01:19You know it.
01:20This, I mean, teams are going to be playing teams in conferences, different time zones
01:24all over.
01:26The neutral site games or the neutral out-of-conference games should be local rivalries that draw
01:34attention to both schools.
01:37That's the epitome of the Pitt-Penn State rivalry.
01:40I don't know why he won't do it.
01:41Is it annoying?
01:42Absolutely.
01:43Even as a Penn State guy, that should be one of the games on the calendar every year.