The ACC has done a poor job with letting ESPN brand the Conference. ESPN has turned the league into Carolina, Dook and the ten dwarves.
The decision to add Boston College was turrrrible, and we should contract them in favor of Georgetown. Georgetown is a fine academic school that is also a traditional basketball power and a natural rival for Maryland. We can teach them to play football (it would take about five minutes to get them up to ACC-caliber anyway).
If the ACC refuses to be smart and play a round robin, they should at least bundle its marquee product declare that the week after the Super Bowl (the noncoincidental annual scheduling of the first Dook-UNC game) be re-branded "ACC Hate Week."
ACC Hate Week is as follows:
Monday 7:00 game: Pitt-Syracuse
Tuesday 7:00: Ga Tech-Clemson; 9:00 Miami-Florida State
Wednesday 7:00 Maryland/Georgetown; 9:00 Virginia-Virginia Tech
Thursday 7:00 Wake/State 9:00 UNC/Dook
Repeat same sequence to end the year, adjusting for days of the week.
Obviously a better team in a better league would yield bigger crowds, but does this trend potentially lead to smaller, more intimate venues?
Georgetown would never do home and home with Maryland, and they likely never will as long as a Thompson is coaching. This is pretty well documented. If somehow they did come to the ACC they would probably demand Syracuse. Also, that little detail of no football program is a game changer.
Lol at people not going to games because their smart phone won't get a signal, if that is someones excuse they need to be punched in the face, or just come to the Joel where you won't have to worry about crowds overloading the cell towers.
The ACC has done a poor job with letting ESPN brand the Conference. ESPN has turned the league into Carolina, Dook and the ten dwarves.
The decision to add Boston College was turrrrible, and we should contract them in favor of Georgetown. Georgetown is a fine academic school that is also a traditional basketball power and a natural rival for Maryland. We can teach them to play football (it would take about five minutes to get them up to ACC-caliber anyway).
If the ACC refuses to be smart and play a round robin, they should at least bundle its marquee product declare that the week after the Super Bowl (the noncoincidental annual scheduling of the first Dook-UNC game) be re-branded "ACC Hate Week."
ACC Hate Week is as follows:
Monday 7:00 game: Pitt-Syracuse
Tuesday 7:00: Ga Tech-Clemson; 9:00 Miami-Florida State
Wednesday 7:00 Maryland/Georgetown; 9:00 Virginia-Virginia Tech
Thursday 7:00 Wake/State 9:00 UNC/Dook
Repeat same sequence to end the year, adjusting for days of the week.
ESPN has done an incredibly shitty job with the ACC Sunday Night Hoops package.
I think it clearly does. Cameron Indoor Stadium is about right for a private school college basketball venue (and even there, they've had to sell some of the student seats to fill them up).
The Joel at 14,000 is a dinosaur from a universe long ago and far away. In 1989, cable and satellite were not factors, and the only ACC games on TV were one or two on Saturday afternoon. So live attendance was about the only way to see a lot of games and you were almost always attending a game that was not on TV, so you got something special for your time and money. Not now.
Best thing Wake should do with the Joel purchase is renovate it to make it around 9000 max seating, so it would look a lot better on TV instead of acres of empty seats.
Let's face it: Basketball arenas now are primarily just TV studios.
Perhaps if they sold beer at games, the attendance would be better