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Memories of the Canes and the Big East for football?

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Ran across some old College Football preseason magazines in the basement and it got me thinking back to the 1990's and early 2000's.

Canes won a lot - 81-16 in Big East conference games from 1991 through 2003 before leaving for the ACC,

But I never gave two flips about playing any of those schools with the two exceptions of VA Tech and WVU. The rest — Boston College, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse and Temple? Great big yawn. No hard feelings, but fine if we never saw them again.

Other than on-field success, any positives about Big East football I'm forgetting?
 
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A life lesson: I never ever ever ever imagined we’d spend 20-plus years without an ACC championship and only appear in the title game once. (And get destroyed in that one.)
 
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A life lesson: I never ever ever ever imagined we’d spend 20-plus years without an ACC championship and only appear in the title game once. (And get destroyed in that one.)
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Hold My Beer said:
Ran across some old College Football preseason magazines in the basement and it got me thinking back to the 1990's and early 2000's.

Canes won a lot - 81-16 in Big East conference games from 1991 through 2003 before leaving for the ACC,

But I never gave two flips about playing any of those schools with the two exceptions of VA Tech and WVU. The rest — Boston College, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse and Temple? Great big yawn. No hard feelings, but fine if we never saw them again.

Other than on-field success, any positives about Big East football I'm forgetting?
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Mannnn…. Donovan McNabb and ‘Cuse did us dirty in ‘98. Those Syracuse games with him and Marvin Graves before him were good.

Same with some of those WVU games
 
FuriousStyles said:
Mannnn…. Donovan McNabb and ‘Cuse did us dirty in ‘98. Those Syracuse games with him and Marvin Graves before him were good.

Same with some of those WVU games
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Good call on Cuse.

Just something about Northeast teams seemed like Triple-A ball to me.

WVU and VA Tech fans were way more hardcore about football -- and their stadium environments reflected it
 
AtlAtty said:
QB Marvin Graves. Wasn’t he the QB right before McNabb? Or maybe right after him. But he was pretty good.
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He was before McNabb… two guys I played against in HS were apart of Syracuse’s ‘96 class so I watched a good amount of Syracuse games in the late 90’s. We all know how the late 90’s were for us
 
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Big east was so *** as a conference if it’s still existed today, we’d be in worse shape than we are with the ACC other than we won a lot then which we might start doing now

 
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