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[QUOTE="Franz69, post: 1340333, member: 299"]
Thamel story from last year when Carparelli moved from AAC to Under Armour.  Deep roots in Big East Football:

[URL]http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/01/16/american-athletic-conference-loses-nick-carparelli-under-armour[/URL]

[B]Carparelli served as the head of football for the Big East and American Athletic Conference for nearly 12 years, leading the league's football programs through two major realignment overhauls.

[SIZE=6]One of Carparelli's strongest assets to the American Athletic Conference was scheduling[/SIZE], back-loading key games to give the conference relevant late-season moments. Nothing epitomized that more than the back-to-back Thursday nights in 2006 when games featuring [URL='http://www.si.com/college-football/team/louisville']Louisville[/URL] and [URL='http://www.si.com/college-football/team/west-virginia']West Virginia[/URL] and Louisville and[URL='http://www.si.com/college-football/team/rutgers']Rutgers[/URL] did blockbuster ratings and signified a revived Big East.

Carparelli also spearheaded the creation of the Pinstripe Bowl and Miami Beach Bowl, which is slated to start next season.

"I'm proud to have been associated with the Big East Conference," he said. "I grew up a Big East fan and the Big East will go down in history as being one of the great success stories in sports. It was 30-plus years of success, despite the odds."[/B]
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