IT HAS been three years since Charleston sports section readers have had a reason to care about Big East football, or anything connected to it.
For West Virginia fans, it was Dec. 29, 2012 when the new Big 12 member Mountaineers were sent to the Pinstripe Bowl to take on Syracuse. Marshall’s last brush came a month earlier, Nov. 23 at East Carolina.
(Four days later, the Pirates accepted a football-only invitation to join the Big East.)
The state’s teams lost both games in painful fashion. The Thundering Herd will attempt to fare better Saturday when it takes on Connecticut in the St.