I agree, as someone who attended WVU for two years on full scholarship, before transferring because I knew the degree wasn't going to be worth as much, Pitt is exponentially a bigger rivalry for WVU than we are to WVU. Students still chant Eat S*%$ Pitt at any and every gathering of 5 or more people followed by a rendition of Country Roads by John Denver. Old women who wouldn't, and barely even could, move for an entire basketball game would all the sudden stand and wake up with a renewed vigor just to scream the eat s^#@ chant and promptly sit down when it was over. It never mattered if it was Marshall, Norfolk State, or LSU, the eat chant would come alive at some point. Hell, I'd wear Syracuse stuff around on campus and rarely anyone took notice, except once when SU and WVU were playing. WVU is mostly made up of New York and New Jersey students now anyways so only the previous generations care. My dad's stories of playing away at WVU's old stadium will always make me laugh though.
I wouldn't trade my two years of an alcohol induced memory lapse, while still making Dean's List easily, for anything. A part of me will always love that university and that black hole of a city.