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Message: [QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4737439, member: 6535"] My thinking is that during Thanksgiving break, winter break, spring break, etc, the ACC should hold neutral site meets and schedule multiple non-revenue sport games over one "event." This could actually be really effective for the conference in a few ways: 1. Penetration into major markets where the ACC doesn't have schools, but has alums and/or where alums wish to travel. New Orleans, anyone? Houston? Los Angeles? San Diego? Vegas? 2. It may make the TV inventory for the non-revenue sports more valuable if it's clustered around holidays when the networks are looking for extra programming. 3. They can probably boost attendance for all of the non-revenue sports by clustering events and putting them around holidays when family/friends are more able to travel. Let's say you're going to see a daughter/son/niece/nephew/cousin/friend play in a non-revenue sport a couple times over a weekend, maybe they play womens soccer on Thurs/Sat and the mens team plays doubleheaders with them, and the womens basketball team plays Fri/Sun. Maybe you go to one or two of the other games. Maybe the schools hold events for everyone traveling. Now that I think about it, this could even be effective for networking between schools too for alums and upperclassmen. I think the end result could be close enough to that to make people happy, if we get a bit lucky. What's the difference between being in a regional Eastern seaboard conference versus being in a regional Eastern seaboard *division* within a national conference? Obviously there are a few, but schedule wise year-to-year, it may be pretty similar. Washington has to play almost all of its road games an increased distance away, Syracuse would have to play one or two per year per sport. [/QUOTE]

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