March Sadness on the Bluff, and we're the Bluffees. I hope Pitt has to picks its teeth off the floor in the first round too.

ElDuque wrote:

March Sadness on the Bluff, and we're the Bluffees. I hope Pitt has to picks its teeth off the floor in the first round too.

El D let it go. Hail to Pitt wvu Bobby Mo they just get it. Duquesne under our beloved AD is just tuff to root for. Love the University father Hogan yes Charlie has done a great job but our boy is toxic. Google the cbs Everhart  letter very Catholic indeed! Karma El D Karma.

Why hate Pitt? They are no longer our rivals, except to the gray hairs on this site. You have to win once in a while for it to be a rivalry. Most Duquesne students have probably been to the Pete more times than they have Palumbo. Build a better team and maybe Selection Sunday would be something to get excited about. Til then, there is always the CBI.

Ditto.  Us getting upset over Pitt is the same as Pitt getting upset over Penn State football.  We are not in the same league or on the same level as Pitt.  That ended 20 years ago at least.  Whether it is attendance, facilities, money put into the program (though that has improved), or competition.  We need to get over that.  I don't want to be like the old or some new Pitt fans who think they are on the same level as PSU football in terms of players, $$ inthe program, and especially attendance.  Heck, Pitt couldn't even have a spring game - had to cancel due to lack of interest.  (and  no, I did not go to PSU but I live in PGH and am tired of hearing them whine.) We can't even have a beginning of the year practice with more than 100 people there.  Notice there are no more emails sent out to meet with the coach and his staff to go over strategy, the program, etc.
There is not interest because our basketball team is terrible.

If you are around their fans enough (alums, casual fans, media), you can find plenty of reasons to hate on pitt whether your school can compete with them or not.

The Ravens used to be the Cleveland Browns. Notre Dame never figured out what its basketball program wanted to be, and 'Cuse-G'town is the product of league play, although many of the great BE rivalries of the past 30-something years will disappear.

Duquesne-Villanova used to be pretty intense, for that matter.

But DU-Pitt should have the intensity of any big rivalry. It's our (Duquesne's) fault it has fizzled out. The way to get it back is to blow their rear ends off the court one night and talk crap about it in the media the next day.

Of course, we have to beat Bobby Mo first ...

You need a sense of humor, and a sense of history, to get it. I will not apologize to anyone who doesn't get it, and it.

Again, as a point of history, the Ravens once WERE the Browns. And many great rivalries have been great rivalries for decades regardless of won-loss records. Your perspective is way too narrow if you don't understand this.