The canes haven’t been the same in the 2003 fiesta bowl game vs Ohio state and the “phantom call”. A year or 2 later, they join the ACC and was never able to dominate.
They left the orange bowl after 2007. Stadium was a shithole but gave them a nice home field advantage.
Canes used to be dominant. They would get most of the studs in south Florida. Now Nick Saban flies a helicopter to high schools, lands on their baseball field, and then signs the stud recruits out of south Florida (other schools have a nice pipeline here as well)
those canes teams from 2000-2002 were just pure awesome