Hope for PSU-Pitt?

It is Your Editor's long-standing contention that Penn State and Pitt should resume playing each other. The teams played 96 times before the games ended in 2000, and there remains no sign at all that the series -- once one of the great rivalries in college football -- will resume.

But now, at least, someone in the Penn State football administration is discussing it.

Longtime Penn State offensive coordinator and current director of football administration Fran Ganter told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently that he thinks Penn State and Pitt should play again.

"I'm just shooting from my hip," Ganter said. "[Athletic Director] TimCurley would have the biggest say. Well, that's not true. Joe would have the biggest say. Personally, and this might just be because I'm from Pittsburgh, but they were great games."

Sounds good, right?

Well, kind of. Ganter quickly added that Penn State "couldn't" play Pitt every year.

Which begs the question: Why not? For nearly a century, the schools managed to gulf that vast cultural divide between Happy Valley (the land of good) and the Oakland section of Pittsburgh (the land of evil). What makes it so difficult today?