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Message: [QUOTE="LETTERL, post: 4875555, member: 4687"] When the ACC was formed in 1953, Greensboro was selected as the headquarters because it was almost in the geographic center of the relatively-intimate conference footprint; the range of states was South Carolina to Maryland. Greensboro is not the most beautiful of cities but is a decent-sized city...and was proud to host the headquarters of the conference, a distinction it would hold until last year. TPTB thought a move south to the bustling Charlotte area would afford the conference many amenities that Greensboro could not provide and that would require travel to Charlotte, anyway. Moving the headquarters to a major city like Charlotte would also signal the conference as modern and booming (even as fortunes on the men's side of the basketball ledger wane big time). Now, the ACC WCBB championship, which Greensboro has hosted, and the city has embraced for, is it 20 years?, is now going south to Charlotte, with everything else. I don't know how I feel about that. On one hand, with so many new teams, rotating the host cities would allow all fan bases to have a tournament closer to their geographic region to ease travel every few years and create a fairer playing field. On the other hand, Greensboro is a neutral site, and has done a wonderful job with the tournament...a high bar that other cities could only hope to meet going forward. [/QUOTE]