ACC Gaining Momentum with MSG

[NJRedman]

I would be terribly disappointed if the Big East ever lost their premier time at MSG. Fans of all Big East teams really need to make an effort to get here.

There will be more tickets available to sell because there are fewer Big East schools than there used to be and a couple of major buyers of tickets - Syracuse, UConn- aren't in the league any more. There will be a dropoff but let's hope we have a plan to minimize how significant it will be.

Also a lot less games and a more condensed tournament. Even the first round is just two games in one night. You sell tix for the session so each of the bottom teams only need to fill a quarter of the arena. The fact that it will be so wide open at least this year should entice even more fans to make the trip in hopes of seeing their school win it all.

[NJRedman]

Lets just put this nonsense to rest already.

"Reports that the Garden can get out of its deal with the Big East are somewhat misleading. Only if the new Big East loses enough key members to make the league no longer is viable can the Garden terminate the contract."

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/college/ ... MeuSlgBwnI

[admin]

Thanks for sharing that article. Certainly makes a Big East fan feel better about our long term relationship with MSG.

[redmen9194]

That same Post article states that the option for the ACC is to move its tourney to the week before the big east. No way they do that.

[NJRedman]

That same Post article states that the option for the ACC is to move its tourney to the week before the big east. No way they do that.

Oh yeah, no way.

[redmen9194]

The only people talking ACC to the Garden is the ACC and ESPN, which is essentially the same thing. The New York City media never indicated interest by the Garden for the ACC. Remember, for years everyone was saying the hoops only schools could never split because they would get no tv contract worth anything, would lose the garden to the ACC, and could not make any money. Today, we have a ten team conference that will be anywhere from the third to fifth best conference next season. We will likely have half our membership in the NCAA tourney. We have a TV deal that pays more than if the Big East stayed together with cuse and Pitt. And we have a deal with MSG for 14 years. We are in very, very good shape. And we are in control of our own destiny. We started our own league - we did not join someone else's. in this whole realignment mess, we made out better than just about everyone.

[Jet915]

The only people talking ACC to the Garden is the ACC and ESPN, which is essentially the same thing. The New York City media never indicated interest by the Garden for the ACC. Remember, for years everyone was saying the hoops only schools could never split because they would get no tv contract worth anything, would lose the garden to the ACC, and could not make any money. Today, we have a ten team conference that will be anywhere from the third to fifth best conference next season. We will likely have half our membership in the NCAA tourney. We have a TV deal that pays more than if the Big East stayed together with cuse and Pitt. And we have a deal with MSG for 14 years. We are in very, very good shape. And we are in control of our own destiny. We started our own league - we did not join someone else's. in this whole realignment mess, we made out better than just about everyone.

+1 and we pretty much have our own conference network from November to March (Fox Sports 1) that will be showing over 100 of our games in 90 million homes!

[QueRico]

While I liked a lot of what I read, Lenn Robbins isn't known for being spot on w/ his info. Then again, who has been through all this?
"Coaches, commissioners and TV execs know where the recruits, money and exposure is." As does anyone reading this, not exactly groundbreaking insight.
Even Nascar has their marketing office in Manhattan, for Pete's sake!

I can't imagine the ACC moving their conference tournament up to test the waters. That's not what a top tier conference does.
It's a different thing to host in-season games @ MSG or in BK. Duke & UNC have been playing games in NY & NJ forever.
As a recruiting tool it's worked out very well over the years.

[admin]

Resurrecting an old thread here, but I'm surprised I missed this last week. ACC certainly wants to be "in" NYC.

After Commissioner John Swofford welcomed Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame to the ACC at a news conference at the NASDAQ stock exchange in Manhattan, he said that further expansion isn't on the agenda.

"It's not a topic of conversation for us right now," he said. "I would not anticipate it being in the future, but we'll see. I don't predict the future much anymore, I've learned better. But it's not something that's on the table for discussion in our league right now."

The ACC even brought the mascots to Times Square for an event it dubbed @ACCtakeNYC on Twitter. The fuzzy crew of costumed characters was bouncing around Manhattan on Sunday, posting pictures on Twitter from various tourist attractions.

[redmen9194]

They looked like fish out of water. It was barely covered in the NY media, if at all in some cases, and if anything they looked like second fiddle. The NASDAQ bell? If you're not ringing the NYSE bell why bother. Not concerned about the ACC in NY at all.