They had this big announcement last month at the University of Pittsburgh. The school was embracing the name Pitt once again. After years of doing everything possible to avoid that oh-so-perfect nickname and reinvent an identity, it was time to return to — and learn from — the past. All part of the metamorphosis, you know.
A few months earlier, the school had hired tough guy coach/alum Dave Wannstedt, whose first declaration was to embrace those Western Pennsylvania, steel-town, butt-kicking roots with a sense of urgency.
Of course, Tyler Palko beat him to it by about six weeks. With one f-bomb.
