ACC Exploring Move From Greensboro

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ACC exploring possible move from original home of Greensboro

Confronting a question that has long simmered internally, one fraught with sentiment and politics, the Atlantic Coast Conference is formally exploring whether to move from its original home of Greensboro,
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“The most mentioned alternative is Charlotte, about 90 miles southwest of Greensboro and home to the conference’s football championship game and annual preseason football gathering. Charlotte occasionally hosts the ACC men’s basketball tournament and houses an ESPN studio complex.

Other options could include the largest markets in the ACC footprint: New York, Boston, Washington and Atlanta.”
 
00Burdell said:
That'll teach the SEC a lesson they won't soon forget.
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BigE said:
greensboro.com

ACC exploring possible move from original home of Greensboro

Confronting a question that has long simmered internally, one fraught with sentiment and politics, the Atlantic Coast Conference is formally exploring whether to move from its original home of Greensboro,
greensboro.com greensboro.com

“The most mentioned alternative is Charlotte, about 90 miles southwest of Greensboro and home to the conference’s football championship game and annual preseason football gathering. Charlotte occasionally hosts the ACC men’s basketball tournament and houses an ESPN studio complex.

Other options could include the largest markets in the ACC footprint: New York, Boston, Washington and Atlanta.”
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It needs to be moved out of North Carolina.
 
I don't see what moving to Charlotte would accomplish. I think it could only be Atlanta or New York. And the optics on New York aren't appealing.
 
txsting said:
I don't see what moving to Charlotte would accomplish. I think it could only be Atlanta or New York. And the optics on New York aren't appealing.
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All Charlotte really adds is better access to flights. It also puts the office closer to the current center of football in the conference.

Coming to Atlanta won’t do much other than let the main office know that the ACC is at best 3rd fiddle in football interest. The ACC would get no love from the Atlanta media.

DC might be interesting. But it certainly isn’t a college football hotbed. Moving to Miami would make more sense.

NYC would be pointless since no one up there cares about college football (and barely college sports).
 
Just about any different location is an upgrade. A move to Atlanta or Charlotte says "we care about football now".
 
WracerX said:
All Charlotte really adds is better access to flights. It also puts the office closer to the current center of football in the conference.

Coming to Atlanta won’t do much other than let the main office know that the ACC is at best 3rd fiddle in football interest. The ACC would get no love from the Atlanta media.

DC might be interesting. But it certainly isn’t a college football hotbed. Moving to Miami would make more sense.

NYC would be pointless since no one up there cares about college football (and barely college sports).
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Can't argue much with the above.

I would say we need to establish a stronger branding strategy than we have had, and locate the HQ to support the brand.

Greensboro is a great location if we want our brand to be a backwater hicksville nepotic plantation of self-interest, which it has successfully been for over half a century.
 
It should be Atlanta, and it's a no-brainer. Not sure what someone mentioned above about NYC's optics, or what that means, but NYC is simply too far geographically north for the conference and a market where college sports simply aren't important enough to be worth the move. DC? Only 3 hours more south, maybe only slightly more of a college sports town.

Let's be honest about the core of the conference and where it's located - 100% of the conference that matters is south of DC.

Lastly, putting the ACC headquarters in NYC or DC would be akin to the Pac 12 putting theirs in San Francisco - pay a ton of rent and overhead and salaries so that you can have meetings in the nicest buildings to impress people. It's pointless.
 
THWUGA said:
It should be Atlanta, and it's a no-brainer. Not sure what someone mentioned above about NYC's optics, or what that means, but NYC is simply too far geographically north for the conference and a market where college sports simply aren't important enough to be worth the move. DC? Only 3 hours more south, maybe only slightly more of a college sports town.

Let's be honest about the core of the conference and where it's located - 100% of the conference that matters is south of DC.

Lastly, putting the ACC headquarters in NYC or DC would be akin to the Pac 12 putting theirs in San Francisco - pay a ton of rent and overhead and salaries so that you can have meetings in the nicest buildings to impress people. It's pointless.
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Sportsylvania VA wouldn’t be so expensive.
 
NYC would be terrible. No one cares about college football up here, and there's a million other things going on here. The ACC would be a minnow in an ocean. Plenty of sports fans in NYC probably can't even tell you what ACC stands for. DC wouldn't be as terrible, but it would still be pretty bad for similar reasons.

Atlanta would be fine. It makes sense geographically, football is a big deal there, and the ACC is well known. But frankly, Atlanta is SEC-central and I'm not sure that's what we want or need.

Charlotte makes the most sense out of those locations. But I don't really see what benefit it brings over Greensboro. This feels like it would be doing something just for the sake of doing something.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
Richmond would make sense geographically and get it out of NC.
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Richmond? Have you been to Richmond? It’s nothing but a Civil War relic if not for the revitalized Warehouse District. It’s trash. Stop, please.
 
Either needs to be somewhere the conference is trying to expand to create a geographic center or Atlanta. Nowhere else is worth it really.
 
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