*Sigh*

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: there will be no resumption of the Pitt-Penn State football series until the old man is dead and buried.

Usually, we have to wait until the end of summer when the coaches do media events for the annual topic to be raised. I really prefer to wait until then, when I can say I don’t want to bother with the dead end subject and then find myself wasting many posts on it anyways because I can’t help myself.

Not this time. Neil Rudel decides to start in with it early — it’s not like a long time Penn State writer would know anything about basketball — with this article. Long story short, he proposes a 10-year deal with 6 in State College and 4 in Pittsburgh. I ignored the article after I read it on Saturday, because it’s just more of the same noise.

Now you have this response, which is also the same noise.

It’s all irrelevant. It’s not going to happen at this time. Paterno is too old, too stubborn, too vindictive and too powerful for there to be any change in the present situation. Pitt could capitulate (not that it should), and he’d still find a new reason for it not to happen.

So, yeah, we can rail about it. Vent. All the stuff. You can talk to friends and family who will not really argue too hard against it because they too want a rivalry game back. But, we all know it’s not going to happen.

Best thing is to just let the ADs keep talking and communicating quietly and when Paterno is 6 feet under and the year long mourning at PSU is over let the series resume.