Rotating between Charlotte and Greensboro. Heck, why not throw Raleigh in there too? ACC Basketball has a lot of problems and the location of its tournament isnt the biggest issue but I'm not sure that going back to being too NC centric is a good thing.
Next 5 ACC Tournaments in North Carolina?
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DC is a good location and easily accessible for most teams. It should be there more often.
It's a great thing. It's a great central location for ACC teams that are actually located on the Atlantic coast
What are the problems with ACC Basketball?
The schools that really want to be good at basketball are still very good.
Just because many ACC schools don't want to go all in on the current lunacy doesn't mean there's a problem with the ACC.
I think Charlotte is a great spot and should be the home of almost every single ACC championship event.
Yea, let’s reenforce the current national view of the acc…….a parochial, Carolina centric conference of backwoods rubes and some yankee misfits who caravan annually to Charlotte to pay homage to NC and Duke and to dine at Popeyes. That will do wonders for the conference when it comes to the polls, tournament and bowl selections and playoff rankings.
Well, the fact that very few ACC schools are taking basketball seriously is a pretty big problem.
Its the Cumberland Valley High School of ACC geographical centrality....
I’d like to see DC in the rotation and Greensboro fade out. My preference would be Charlotte and DC only, with more being in Charlotte than DC. Stop pretending you’re something that you’re not by playing in Brooklyn - the ACC tournament will not be the Big East at MSG, and we shouldn’t try to replicate it.
The ACC needs to embrace its roots and the magic, not run away from it. Having like 6-8 schools within a 3 hour drive from Charlotte helps that. Charlotte’s easy to get to from the more far flung corners of the conference. It’s where the conference is headquartered. It’s where the ACC Network is headquartered. It just makes sense.
I'd keep Brooklyn and rotate it every year. Greensboro has got to go though.
Brooklyn
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Atlanta
Your thinking is exactly one of the reasons why the ACc is a distant third to the 2 super conferences. The old magic says FB is largely irrelevant and in hoops, only Duke and UNC count.
I’d favor rotating the hoops tournie location among major metropolitan areas in the AcC footprint. I don’t like playing a disproportionate number of games at a location that makes it ultra convenient for the fans of the old guard ACC schools to attend giving those schools a home court advantage and creating the perception that the conference caters to those schools…which it does.
It’s one thing for the conference to embrace it’s roots and another to act as if the composition of the conference hasn’t changed…it’s way past the time to create a new magic…the old magic is passe and further disadvantages the conference in this conference in fighting and in negotiating media deals. The “ old magic” has done nothing but put the conference on life support.
I know, right. We have Popeyes right here in da burg.
Cool. The ACC isn’t passing the Big Ten or the SEC in perception no matter where they play the conference tournament. Playing in Brooklyn or doubling up with the SEC in Atlanta isn’t going to do that. Building a culture and a tradition in one spot, or two spots, will. And especially in Charlotte considering that Charlotte is (like it or not) the home base for the conference.
College sports are throwing every element of tradition in the dumpster. There is an untapped market for a conference that actually embraces its history and its heritage, and the ACC is the best positioned to be that conference.
Here, don’t include the rest of us with people like you that choose to dine at Popeyes.
I don't think there's any SEC competition in Atlanta. I think the SEC is set up long term in Nashville. (through 2035)
People hate on Greensboro, but for the ACC it’s the best location from a revenue standpoint. Greensboro Coliseum is the largest traditional hockey/basketball arena in the United States with over 23,000 seats, and the fact that it’s located in the heart of ACC territory means that the seats will mostly all be filled.
They could have a 50,000 seat arena that gets packed for every session. That doesn't change the fact that Greensboro screams small time, from the top of the conference's lungs.
If you are going to have the tournament in North Carolina, and for the record there is no reason why you shouldn't, then it simply must be in Charlotte. Unless you want everyone to think that you are small time.
The SEC has not held their basketball tournament in Atlanta since 2014. Since then they have been in Nashville every year with two exceptions, one in Tampa and one in St. Louis.
There is nothing wrong with Greensboro. The ACC has largely been viewed as college basketball's top conference for the past 50 years, and it's been intertwined with Greensboro that entire time.
The place is a morgue unless Duke, UNC, or NC St is playing even if that means all the tickets are sold. Nobody goes.
That's the way it is for almost every conference tournament, regardless of location.
DC last year had really good crowds and is a far better location than f’in Greensboro.
#1 - DC
#2 - Charlotte
Yea. Brooklyn too. Greensboro hates basketball. They only show up for the 3 teams and certainly not Wake.
The Notre Dame vs Georgia Tech game looked very dead in DC last year. Just saying.
It’s unbelievable the amount of top events Charlotte brings in. Their stadium is always being used for big college football games and very high level club and international soccer events like the Club World Cup and the FIFA World Cup. It’s a great spot for sports fans.
I’m actually surprised they haven’t been awarded a Super Bowl. Don’t know if Tepper and the city ever tried. Maybe Feb climate is the holdback, as it gets cold there in the winter.
That's because it was those Tuesday afternoon 1st Round games. Those games arent part of the ACC ticket package and are offered as a stand-alone general admission ticket. Those games are going to be lowly attended everywhere.
If it was still 1984 instead of 2024 that would be a really good point. In 2024 Greensboro screams small time.
If you want to be a slave to ancient history, move it back to Raleigh. Play it at the Carolina Hurricane's arena. Not ideal, but certainly a lot better.
I don't think anything about a location screams small time. Quality of the conference determines that. It definitely screams small time event this year.
Sure, I mean when people are talking about great places to play a conference basketball tournament isn't everyone pretty much in agreement that there's no difference between the Greensboro Coliseum and Madison Square Garden?
Manhattan is probably a better place to tour a museum than Cooperstown too. So what?
If your whole point is "so what" then what are you even commenting for?
Greensboro is a remnant of the old, parochial ACC. It was perfectly fine in 1984. It's nothing more than a backwater hick town in 2024. There are probably a dozen better places to put the tournament today, a couple of which happen to be obviously better choices in North Carolina.
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