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There are many ways to describe the mismatch that takes place  at Mountaineer field Saturday night and I’ve seen — and written — many of them this week. Few, if any, are as eloquent and accurate as this from Times West Virginia columnist Bob Hertzel.

There is this scene in the first Indiana Jones movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” where Harrison Ford, playing the adventurous archeologist, is threatened by a sword-wielding assassin who menacingly waves his sword in threatening loops only to have our hero pull out a pistol and casually shoot him.There is a moral to this one-sided confrontation: Never bring a sword to a gunfight.

We think of this today as Pitt prepares to bring a butter knife of an offense to Morgantown on this Saturday evening to challenge a West Virginia team armed with college football’s equivalent of a nuclear arsenal.

It is as hard to argue as it is to forget the basis of the column, that being the … quizzical … comical … ok, absurd line from Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt at halftime against WVU two years ago.

And since we’re close to wrapping up this week, I have to admit I really thought I could make it without posting Pat White meowing. Turns out I was wrong. Still hilarious.