VPI has only sold 3,000 tix for ACC Championship

33jacket said:
hold the ACC title in the dome a week after the SEC game or move the ACC schedule up a week and hold it a week before.

Atlanta is the only solution. Charlotte won't be a solution it will be the same problem.

Flights are super cheap into atlanta, and its central enough for everyone to drive to, and its indoors.

Charlotte is cold and/or colder, outdoors, smaller city/airport....but on the positive it has the easy to drive to working for it....
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Totally agree 33.
 
I think they should hold the game at the team with the best record's home field.

That's the way they do the playoffs in DII and NAIA.
 
kirbee said:
I think they should hold the game at the team with the best record's home field.

That's the way they do the playoffs in DII and NAIA.
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B-b-b-but what about all the lost revenue??!?!?!?!;)
 
kirbee said:
I think they should hold the game at the team with the best record's home field.

That's the way they do the playoffs in DII and NAIA.
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They also do the playoffs like that in 1AA until the title game. And in the NFL. But something like that would never work in 1A. They're above doing that.
 
Allen Koholic said:
Not to mention that it means we'll need to move our game with the mutts.
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You may be on to something. Moving up the mutts game to play the ACC CG Thanksgiving weekend means the Dogs lost their extra week to prepare for us. :biggthumpup:
 
kirbee said:
I think they should hold the game at the team with the best record's home field.

That's the way they do the playoffs in DII and NAIA.
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I agree, but prefer letting the Atlantic Champion host one year and the Coastal the next. Let visiting school have 10,000 tickets they can sell up through Wednesday of the championship week.

Charlotte will improve crowds some, especially if Clemson or a North Carolina school plays. Tech and Va Tech would draw fairly well there. But, playing at a school's stadium is reasonable.

The SEC won the lottery with the Georgia Dome. Only three teams win the East - Gators, Vols, and Dawgs - so a team a relatively short drive away is always playing. Arkansas is the longest drive to Atlanta.

The distance from BC to Tampa is akin to asking Florida fans to travel to Maine. The distance from Va Tech to Tampa is similar to asking Bama to travel to Cleveland. Wonder how many Tide and Gator fans would travel that far. Our conference is too far stretched from Boston to Miami for a neutral site to work.
 
Enuratique said:
B-b-b-but what about all the lost revenue??!?!?!?!;)
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You mean all those unsold tickets in Florida? ;)

I like the idea above of rotating the game between divisions each year. That way more is known earlier.

I think the traveling team should be officially alloted the same number of tickets the host team is. If that's 10k, then its 10k.

This game needs to get back to football and away from the event. Back to basics. Hold the game on a campus.
 
Charlotte is the only reasonable answer. There are a lot of ACC fans in the area that would be willing to go to that game no matter who is in it.
Weather will be fine. Rain sucks, but it's been rainy in Jax and could be rainy in Tampa. Cold= Football weather, like its supposed to be. Like someone mentioned, the Big12 is in KC, outside, in December, can't be worse than that in Charlotte. That is our most central location.
Just sucks for BC that they're in the equivalent of Outer Mongolia to the rest of the conference. Maybe they should be banned from the Champ game.
It is one thing to on a week's notice (sometimes you get two, but usually it's one week, unlike a bowl game where you get 4 to 6 weeks to plan) to decide to drive 4 hours or so to go to a game, its another to buy airline tickets (you never get a deal one week in advance), or have to drive 1,349 miles from Boston College to Tampa Bay. Even to Charlotte, BC folks are looking at a drive of 850 miles. That's just not doable for 90% of fans.
 
bellyseries said:
Right, let Stingtalk vote the conference champ.
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Decide like the Big 11 does. Best record, Best HTH record in the event of tie, and if that doesn't work the team that has gone the longest without a conference championship wins it.
 
Not sure we are to the point where we can be critical of others ticket buying habits. Not very becoming.

But the ACCCG should be in ATL or charlotte.
 
I wouldn't say we are being critical, just examining the hard reality that we are too spread out for many of our schools to realistically sell 35k tickets in a week for a championship game.
VT I would expect a little better from, but I can't say that I blame the BC crowd at all. How many U(sic)Ga or UF or Bama fans would be in Boston for a championship game given a week's notice?
 
I vote to kick the three bastard children out of the league and go back to the ol' 9-team, everyone faces each other ACC.
 
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