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Whoa, horse! There are no schools in the ACC with 100,000 or even 90,000 seat stadiums! The range is from 31,500 (Wake Forest) to 82,300 (FSU) but FSU will lose about 2,000 of those seats and fall behind Clemson as they are putting in club seating. Then Clemson with 81,500 will have the largest ACC stadium. Duke is expanding their stadium from 33,941 to just south of 40,000. BC with 44,500 is the third smallest. SU is fourth. When FSU joined in 1990 (football in 92), ticket revenue was a more significant factor and there was some talk in Tallahassee about offering Wake more money to play their home game against FSU in Tally town but that never happened. The visiting team gets a portion of ticket sales. I understand the home field advantage in football is worth about 3 points on the scoreboard so teams want to keep that. I think Wake will eventually follow Duke's lead and expand their small stadium. The CPA's among you (or anyone who can read a balance sheet) will have to opine but I always understood that ticket sales and donations were a bigger part of the athletic budget at most schools than TV money. Tally ho!
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