ACCT Back To Tobacco Road...

[CuseitUp]

V center anyone...

 

[HoustonCuse]

Ouch. Let's see how long it takes the Big 10 to pounce and lock up MSG.

 

[gmoney44]

Ouch. Let's see how long it takes the Big 10 to pounce and lock up MSG.

Exactly. The ACC will rue the day they let the Big 10 lock up MSG.

 

[CU44SE]

For a conference to be successful and revolutionary, they need to be progressive and not reactionary. Look at the B1G with the conference network; they were progressive and now every other conference is playing catch up. Look at the Big East, they fell apart and were decimated because they were not proactive. The B1G is currently way ahead of everyone else and this is why I believe that the ACC needs to go all in and get MSG. Be proactive and make this the home of an eastern conferences basketball tournament, its one of the largest media markets in the world. Promote your product, don't let an inferior conference come in and take it from you. Im sorry but the ACC is no longer a North Carolina or southern based conference, it is an Eastern based Conference with schools from NY and Boston all the way down to Florida. It should now be marketed in such a way and what better way to do that then hold your conference tournament in the largest media market in the Eastern United States.

 

[sutomcat]

Exactly. The ACC will rue the day they let the Big 10 lock up MSG.

Yup. Small minded thinking like some of the visitors on this board are expressing is why the ACC was passed by the Big East so quickly and completely. If the ACC wants to be perceived as the clear big dog of college basketball, they need to show it on the court, and they need to have their tournament in Manhattan.

There is a major war going on right now for control of the Northeast college athletics market between the ACC and the B1G. This is about establishing the ACC as THE conference that dominates the East. The ACC should do everything in its power to ensure it gets MSG every year (and consequently that the B1G is shut out of MSG). Doing a rotation invites the B1G to share the market with the ACC. It is a horrible idea.

 

[CU44SE]

Yup. Small minded thinking like some of the visitors on this board are expressing is why the ACC was passed by the Big East so quickly and completely. If the ACC wants to be perceived as the clear big dog of college basketball, they need to show it on the court, and they need to have their tournament in Manhattan.

There is a major war going on right now for control of the Northeast college athletics market between the ACC and the B1G. This is about establishing the ACC as THE conference that dominates the East. The ACC should do everything in its power to ensure it gets MSG every year (and consequently that the B1G is shut out of MSG). Doing a rotation invites the B1G to share the market with the ACC. It is a horrible idea.

Hate to say it, but it reminds me of the Big East. Afraid to make the big move even if it will upset some people.

 

[Chris02M]

no team can lock up msg for the next several years except bigeast.

 

[sutomcat]

no team can lock up msg for the next several years except bigeast.

Just like no conference could lock up the Barclay Center for years...

Contracts that are bad for both parties tend to dissolve over time.

To paraphrase from the car salespeople, MSG is too much arena for the New Big East. No one is going to make money having an event in a half filled MSG.

Anyway, I agree with you that nothing is going to happen now, with the ACC anyway, until at least 2021. We almost need to root for the New Big East to make a go of it and draw good crowds at MSG, so the B1G doesn't move in while the ACC is committed to holding tournaments in Mayberry RFD.

 

[JimBoston]

Honestly, the Big East Tournament (not the current version) was one of the bucket list sporting events. Nothing beat the buzz of the Friday night semis (Saturday night semis in the old days). I still remember the Amtrak Big East Tournament ticket special for the fans as in the early days, every BE school was on a train line. Meeting old friends and making new ones. This is what was lost with conference realignment.

Barclay's Center and a rotational tournament will not be the same as MSG and the BET, but it is a good compromise. Let's face it, Greensboro is centrally located for the schools, has a history with the ACC, and probably makes the most sense to hold it there most often.

I really don't see either the Big 10 or ACC moving their conference tournament to NYC on a permanent basis in the future. After the Big East MSG deal runs out, I can see both the ACC and Big 10 Tournaments rotating through MSG.

 

[CousCuse]

After the Big East tourney at MSG, the ACC tourney will always be an afterthought. The tourney is trying to keep everyone happy. When that happens, no one is particularly happy and there's no tradition. The intimacy that was MSG has been lost forever.

Every thing you write is depressing.

 

[Bayside44]

Every thing you write is depressing.

Good grief. We have hordes of fans in the mid-Atlantic and southeast, both alumni and transplants. Not all our fans work in finance in Manhattan and can cab back home after hanging out in that rat trap Blarney Rock. Greensboro ain't where it's at but these event done right get more people inside our tent.