West Virginia University Director of Athletics SHANE LYONS has indicated his interest in reviving the “Backyard Brawl” during a wide-ranging radio interview with TONY CARIDI earlier this week.
Some Pittsburgh and national media outlets have since picked up the story:
WPXI
ESPN.com
Yahoo! Sports
Lyons said the earliest opening on West Virginia’s football schedule is 2022, meaning at least an 11-year interruption for one of the longest running football rivalries in Eastern College football.
The neighboring schools have played 104 times on the gridiron from 1985-2011, with interruptions in 1896-97, 1899, 1905, 1911-12, 1914-16, 1918 and 1940-42.