By Tim Stephens, The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Play or pay.
That’s the message Marshall University sent to the University of Pittsburgh regarding a football game Thundering Herd officials claim the Panthers owe MU.
The Marshall Board of Governors filed a $1 million lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh Commonwealth System of Higher Education Dec. 23 in Cabell County Circuit Court. The point of contention is a football game to have been played at Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards Stadium Sept. 26, 2020.
The Herd played Pitt at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, losing 43-27, as part of a home-and-home contract. In 2017, the schools amended the contract to play in Huntington Sept. 12, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic, however, prompting officials from the Atlantic Coast Conference, of which Pitt is a member, to limit teams to 11 games, 10 in conference and one out of the league but to be played at home.
