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ACC Games in Europe?

deacondamo said:
We would definitely be top of the list to "host" a home game in London against ND or something though.
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I know that's how it works in the NFL but that brand can sell itself a lot easier than the ACC. You'd probably need a fairly marquee matchup ... or something like BC-Notre Dame in Dublin ... to get people interested
 
Help me understand the upside to this, from Wake's perspective.
 
VaDeac said:
Help me understand the upside to this, from Wake's perspective.
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With Wake's horrible decline in attendance, fewer fans will be disappointed losing a home game.

There is a chance that [Redacted] loses his passport and is stuck in England.

A higher chance that DV7 is able to incite a massive riot to fulfill his "winter is coming" prophecy from last season.

Wake gets to experience what MD teams will feel like playing in the Big Ten.

Grobe and Lobo already practice a strict rule of kicking or punting whenever possible so the team could attract a lot of fans in the football-driven European continent.

Hopefully basketball games are played at prime time in Europe to avoid accidentally ruining your evening by stumbling upon [Redacted]'s wonderful coaching on television.
 
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IslandDeac said:
With Wake's horrible decline in attendance, fewer fans will be disappointed losing a home game.

There is a chance that [Redacted] loses his passport and is stuck in England.

A higher chance that DV7 is able to incite a massive riot to fulfill his "winter is coming" prophecy from last season.

Wake gets to experience what MD teams will feel like playing in the Big Ten.

Grobe and Lobo already practice a strict rule of kicking or punting whenever possible so the team could attract a lot of fans in the football-driven European continent.

Hopefully basketball games are played at prime time in Europe to avoid accidentally ruining your evening by stumbling upon [Redacted]'s wonderful coaching on television.
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Round up the hooligans, DV7.

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You're allowed an extra game if you play in Europe so we wouldn't be losing a home game. So we would play 13 football games those years. In other words, we might get to play UNC in London in a year we otherwise wouldn't be playing them at all.

Couldn't hurt our basketball program to play a few games in Lithuania against an alumni team with Darius and Vytas or Spain against Peral and Videretta.
 
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Here is the relevant rule:

17.9.5.2 -Annual Exemptions. [FBS/FCS]
The maximum number of football contests shall exclude the following:

(j) Foreign Tour. [FBS/FCS]
The football games played on a foreign tour, provided the tour occurs only once in a four-year period and is conducted by the member institution in accordance with the procedures set forth in Bylaw 30.7 (see Bylaw 17.29);

Here is the by-law:
17.29 FOREIGN TOURS
17.29.1 Institutionally Certified Tours. A member institution may participate in competition in any sport on foreign tours certified by the institution in accordance with procedures set forth under Bylaw 30.7. (Revised: 1/11/89, 1/14/97 effective 8/1/97)

17.29.1.1 Contest Exclusions. Any contest or date of competition played on a certified foreign tour shall be excluded from the limitations set forth in this bylaw.

17.29.1.2 Timing of Tour. A foreign tour taken during the summer vacation period shall be considered to have occurred during the academic year after the summer for purposes of Bylaws 17 and 30.7. (Adopted: 1/9/96 effective
8/1/96)

17.29.1.3 Tour to U.S. Territory or Commonwealth. A tour to a U.S. commonwealth (e.g., Puerto Rico) or a U.S. territory (e.g., Virgin Islands) is not considered a foreign tour.

17.29.2 Outside-Team Tours. An outside team that includes student-athletes from more than one member institution may participate in international competition in any sport on a foreign tour. However, any such outside team that includes more than the following number of student-
athletes from the same member institution must be certified by the institution in accordance with procedures set forth in Bylaw 30.7. (Revised: 1/14/97 effective 8/1/97, 10/31/02)

Baseball - 4
Basketball - 2
Football - 5
Lacrosse - 5
 
One of the benefits would be the money ESPN would pay to televise these events. If ESPN isn't interested then they would provide a bit of extra content for the coming ACC network.

Swofford is hoping in an ideal scenario to build a European Audience for the ACC Digital network.
 
I'm not sure hope is strong enough of a word.
 
LOL at the "bz to kazakhstan" tag. Other than Notre Dame in Dublin, are there any schools that would generate widespread interest? ACC teams don't have any kind of tv presence over there do they?
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
LOL at the "bz to kazakhstan" tag. Other than Notre Dame in Dublin, are there any schools that would generate widespread interest? ACC teams don't have any kind of tv presence over there do they?
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You might get Cambridge kids to confuse UNC for their team.
 
By February, we might draw more people in Andorra than at the Joel.
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
LOL at the "bz to kazakhstan" tag. Other than Notre Dame in Dublin, are there any schools that would generate widespread interest? ACC teams don't have any kind of tv presence over there do they?
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No to "widespread interest" part
 
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