At exactly noon today, pretty much every Pitt athletics team account tweeted the following:
Considering this is clearly something happening across all of Pitt Athletics and is with Pitt’s apparel sponsor Nike, it’s fairly certain this is the announcement date of Pitt going back to the throwback blue and gold colors as its official color scheme.
It’s been rumored for over a year at this point that Pitt would be moving back to using the throwback colors full time. Heather Lyke has been cited numerous times as understanding the desire of fans for wanting to bring the colors back.