3 Cities Vie for ACC Championship Game

Fanblogs posted an entry about the competition for the ACC Football Championship game.

We’ll give you a little prediction and you can come back and judge us on it later – Tampa will get the 2008 game and Charlotte will get the 2009 and 2010 game

But, before the next few years, the teams competing for the title have to get through the next couple of weeks of the “ACC Semi-Finals”. The conference couldn’t have planned the scheduling much better than the way that everything has developed this year.

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13 Responses to 3 Cities Vie for ACC Championship Game

  1. TampaPack 11/15/2007 at 10:35 AM #

    I understand the push to the south in hopes of better weather. I live in Tampa, and while I would love to host the Wolfpack here in my new home city, Tampa is south (and pretty far south) from all the ACC schools but one. The thing I liked about the traditional basketball tournament was that it was as central as possible to the entire ACC being in Charlotte or G’boro.

  2. branjawn 11/15/2007 at 10:36 AM #

    It won’t be north of Greensboro, that’s for sure. Gary Williams can suck it.

  3. DireWolfNY 11/15/2007 at 10:48 AM #

    It doesn’t matter where they play it. You think more than maybe 5,000 more fans would have showed up last year if Wake and GT would have played in Charlotte? The fact is that only a handful of ACC teams travel well enough to fill up a 73,000 seat stadium. And unless two of those teams meet in the championship game, regardless of where it’s played, there will be empty seats. Miami couldn’t even sell out the Orange Bowl for its final game there.

  4. Mr O 11/15/2007 at 11:31 AM #

    Tons of fans would have gone to Clt last year. Clt is 3.5 hours from Atlanta and about 1 hour from WS.

    Charlotte makes the trip driveable for everyone but BC and Miami.

  5. LRM 11/15/2007 at 11:39 AM #

    As far as weather, Jacksonville in December isn’t much different than Charlotte in December, so that was always a weak argument.

    Somewhere along the line no one had the foresight or intuition to anticipate the loser of the championship game returning a few weeks later for the Gator Bowl.

    Jacksonville makes sense for the Cocktail Party, but the ACC has learned what the NFL learned the hard way a few years ago: Jacksonville is an undesirable location to host a big event.

  6. RickJ 11/15/2007 at 12:00 PM #

    I have a hunch Charlotte would really support this game and sell a ton of tickets before anyone knew who was playing in the game. The ACC means more to the people of North Carolina than anywhere else. If this happened, the league would be in a conundrum with the basketball tournament already being played in NC most years. One big difference is that it is highly unlikely the NC schools will dominate the football championship the way they have done in basketball.

  7. statered 11/15/2007 at 12:24 PM #

    I don’t know why weather is such a big concern. The Big 12 seems to do OK out in Kansas City in the cold. Its football for crying out loud. Hell I would rather go to DC and watch the game with all the other things to do there (like dodging bullets) than go to Jacksonville just for warm weather.

  8. Clarksa 11/15/2007 at 12:47 PM #

    It seems like the ACC is willing to try anything but Charlotte first because they know once it gets to Charlotte, it will be hard to get it out of there.

  9. RAWFS 11/15/2007 at 12:47 PM #

    For the vast majority of fans, it really doesn’t matter where it is because they watch it on TV.

    Speaking of TV, you could almost see the ACC putting it up in DC or even Boston so UMD and BC would be happy. They are two large markets and at least in Boston, the ACC would probably like to kick-start interest in the conference that BC is now a member of.

  10. PacknSack 11/15/2007 at 12:56 PM #

    Gratuitous pot shot alert: If it were up to Jed, they’d just play the game in Greenville every year.

  11. packbackr04 11/15/2007 at 1:25 PM #

    BA ZING! ^

  12. choppack1 11/16/2007 at 6:35 PM #

    I think DC would be a good spot every once and a while – it’s fairly easy for most fans to get to. But from a practicality standpoint – you can’t be Charlotte.

  13. john of sparta 11/16/2007 at 7:25 PM #

    it’s not the weather…..
    it’s a “destination location”.
    in other words….would you go there ANYWAY
    even if there was no football game?
    Orlando (DisneyWorld) for example.
    that way, the city gets folks who come in
    early and stay late and BUY the whole time.
    given that this is ACC FOOTball: Charlotte wins.
    “little” Atlanta or whatever…..it’s ripe for the taking.

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