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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5331100, member: 71"] Big East. It was just before Miami started assembling an unfathomable amount of talent (tail end of the Butch Davis years), Syracuse was still very solid, Va Tech started getting ranked on a regular basis, Pitt, BC and WVU were pretty good while Rutgers and Temple had difficulty with 1AA (now FCS) and we were a couple years away from joining (and in most opinions, bring the bottom of the conference down further). Tranghese, who felt priority one was to keep a conference for the catholic schools thought that if for football only, the nine better football programs played in one conference while the remaining football schools (who he claimed didn't want to compete for a national championship; he actually said that to a group of ACC school presidents( would be in another conference. A few months later Miami & FSU started discussing how to maximize their positions. The result was the first raid. [/QUOTE]