You know the worst thing about jury-rigging a rivalry game like this River City Rivalry? It makes it damn hypocritical to make fun of the Land Grant Trophy game between Penn State and Michigan State.

There’s nothing to the RCR in past history.

The UC-Pitt rivalry, such as it is, is barely in the embryonic stage. The schools have met in football only four times, with Pitt winning all four games. Their most recent meeting was 24 years ago, in 1981.
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“What has to happen is it has to get personal,” said UC coach Mark Dantonio. “The Miami game becomes very personal when you play in that game. The Louisville game, it becomes very personal. That’s what this game has to become. In this first year, we’ll see. We’ll see how we attack the situation and we’ll see how they attack it.”

Pitt’s biggest rivals are West Virginia and Syracuse. How UC fits into that mix remains to be seen.

“This is a nice start,” said Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt. “But I’m sure Mark would agree with me that rivalries come from there being three, four, five games back and forth and then all of a sudden the fans get into it and it means something.”

Just one of many new opponents Pitt will be facing.

And just when you thought mocking the Big East couldn’t be taken to a new low, it gets compared to the sitcom Joey.

The new-look Big East is a lot like NBC’s Joey — watching its cast struggle just makes you wish they’d get the old gang back together. But we know it’s not going to happen.

I am now going to take a bath with the toaster.