Ross Hodge’s First Backyard Brawl Doesn’t Come With A Lack Of Storylines

MORGANTOWN — It is a melody either filled with great anticipation or it is nails across a chalkboard, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line one resides.

Hands … Touching hands.

It is a chorus modified by WVU fans to put an exclamation point on a lifetime’s worth of hatred toward anything associated with Pitt.

Reaching out … Touching me, touching youuuuu.

And, apparently, after Ross Hodge was hired as the WVU men’s basketball coach last March, the song became a sort of research project for his daughter Emery.

Sweeeet Caroline …

“Once we knew as a family that this is what we were going to do, my daughter started sending me clips of some of the football games,” with WVU’s fans chanting, Hodge said. “Everybody is aware of it.”

When Hodge’s family first arrived in Morgantown, t