ACC Exploring Move From Greensboro

Techbert said:
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.
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Disagree.
 
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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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Travel is not an issue....Greensboro or Raleigh are easy flights. Charlotte has been bucking for this for 30 years. Charlotte built a 20k seat arena to steal the ACC tourney and the headquarters from Greensboro in the 80's. So Greensboro expanded theirs to 23k to keep the ACC. Greensboro made a point of showing section diagrams of how their larger arena renovation would easily fit inside Charlotte's venue= better fan environment.
Charlotte later dumped that arena and built the new one for the Hornets.
NC is geographically in the middle for our conference-so its cool. IMO just keep moving the tourneys around.
 
My vote is for DC. It's a good center of gravity for the ACC as an east-coast conference; I know the stock of the northern ACC schools is low right now, but the ACC's image is much better as the conference of prestigious east-coast urban schools than trying to ape the SEC's vibe by focusing on the deep south.

Atlanta would be a disaster, being dwarfed by the SEC would be embarrassing. But my God, they need to get out of North Carolina. I grew up in a Big Ten family and the ACC's fetish for the state of North Carolina is unfathomably small-time. Putting the ACC tournament in Greensboro is literally laughable and makes the whole conference come off as a bush league backwater.
 
After thinking about it I hope they do decide on Atlanta. Not really concerned with any of the yankee schools staying or going but it would hopefully help to keep Clemson and FSU happy. If they ever left the conference would be a snoozefest. Go head to head with the SEC.
 
wishbone said:
Travel is not an issue....Greensboro or Raleigh are easy flights. Charlotte has been bucking for this for 30 years. Charlotte built a 20k seat arena to steal the ACC tourney and the headquarters from Greensboro in the 80's. So Greensboro expanded theirs to 23k to keep the ACC. Greensboro made a point of showing section diagrams of how their larger arena renovation would easily fit inside Charlotte's venue= better fan environment.
Charlotte later dumped that arena and built the new one for the Hornets.
NC is geographically in the middle for our conference-so its cool. IMO just keep moving the tourneys around.
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Greensboro is not an easy flight. You can get to Atlanta and DC direct from almost anywhere.
 
Why would any ACC school outside of North Carolina want the headquarters to be in North Carolina given the bias shown toward the NC schools?
 
Charlotte. It's the center of the conference.

Atlanta would be a disaster. It would only magnify the difference between support for the ACC vs SEC here. Charlotte, we own. Own it.
 
The new ACC commish - isn't he from Northwestern or some other Big 10 school?

The NC centricity of the ACC is going to end soon. I have to think the new commish has to have some kind of inside track to getting ND off the fence and a full member.

I don't see how ND can survive the coming split of college football into 2 divisions.
 
00Burdell said:
The new ACC commish - isn't he from Northwestern or some other Big 10 school?

The NC centricity of the ACC is going to end soon. I have to think the new commish has to have some kind of inside track to getting ND off the fence and a full member.

I don't see how ND can survive the coming split of college football into 2 divisions.
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Screw ND.
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wishbone said:
Screw ND.
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If the coming war with the SEC comes to pass, we need ND.

This is one of the differences between the ACC and the SEC. The SEC doesn't say "screw Texas and their dumb network" or "screw Oklahoma and their dumb wagon." The SEC assimilates two top-ten teams right under everybody's nose.

And what does the ACC say? "Screw ND"
 
00Burdell said:
If the coming war with the SEC comes to pass, we need ND.

This is one of the differences between the ACC and the SEC. The SEC doesn't say "screw Texas and their dumb network" or "screw Oklahoma and their dumb wagon." The SEC assimilates two top-ten teams right under everybody's nose.

And what does the ACC say? "Screw ND"
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Screw ND
ND needs to nut up and join the ACC. I am all for that. Screw ND
" Georgia Tech running back Tashard Choice pounded the Irish for 196 yards on 26 carries."
 
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00Burdell said:
If the coming war with the SEC comes to pass, we need ND.

This is one of the differences between the ACC and the SEC. The SEC doesn't say "screw Texas and their dumb network" or "screw Oklahoma and their dumb wagon." The SEC assimilates two top-ten teams right under everybody's nose.

And what does the ACC say? "Screw ND"
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For real. If you don't want ND, GTFO. Notre Dame is an insanely good team to have on your schedule; I grew up as a Michigan State fan back when we had an annual game with ND and those games were always way more hype than a normal game, for better or worse, it's like playing the Yankees. And they're not an obnoxious southern state school war machine, so the games are actually winnable.

And these crusty boomers want to exclude them- why? So we can have less TV money and get an extra game in against some low-energy North Carolina school? And ND is a better cultural fit than anyone else we might add or some of our other recent additions (looking at you, Louisville).
 
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