ACC 'seriously investigating' playing tournament at MSG

[CL82]

MSG wants someone who will sell all available tickets. They will get that with the ACC, very easily. Re-sale is not a concern.

It will be when your company is broadcasting games in half empty arena.

 

[Fishy]

The biggest problem the ACC will have is that MSG doesn't need them.

The new Big East will sell the building out just fine. And they'll want to do it every year, unlike the ACC who will have to bend the knee to their North Carolinian overlords and give them their Greensboro tournaments.

File this one with the ACC Network stories - likely a pipe dream. The ACC will have to head to Brooklyn if they want to see a big city up close.

 

[zls44]

It will be when your company is broadcasting games in half empty arena.

If people aren't at the arena, they might be watching the game on TV. Fine with me.

 

[zls44]

The ACC will have to head to Brooklyn if they want to see a big city up close.

Or buy tickets to the SEC FB title game.

 

[Carl Spackler]

The biggest problem the ACC will have is that MSG doesn't need them.

The new Big East will sell the building out just fine. And they'll want to do it every year, unlike the ACC who will have to bend the knee to their North Carolinian overlords and give them their Greensboro tournaments.

File this one with the ACC Network stories - likely a pipe dream. The ACC will have to head to Brooklyn if they want to see a big city up close.

The ACC already got sent back to North Carolina with their tail between their legs once by both MSG and Barclays management. I'm looking forward to it happening again.

Becuase the espn guy is right, the only thing that matters to the MSG/Barcalys people is that every single tournament game is a paid sellout. PAID sellout, adn they already got that.

The rest of this, from me, was just bitching, becuase it pisses me off that we aren't playing March basketball in Madison Square Garden anytime scheduled in the near future. I'm so glad I saw the guys cut down the nets in person in 2011. Little did I know at the time, how special that would turn out to be.

 

[J187Money]

I found this online Jmoney, by accident, just doing a simple google search with keywords "uconn aau" .

THis is the kind of thing, that I hope is being shown to Big 10 type folks, and to me, is actually the very first thing I've seen that pretty much makes clear in what direction we are heading as a university with our academics, and research, and educational values. Sooner or later, athletics will follow. I can only hope.

http://provost.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012-November-7-Department-Head-Presentation.pdf

Everyone who thinks the administration isn't trying needs to look at that...

 

[SectionKK]

The biggest problem the ACC will have is that MSG doesn't need them.

The new Big East will sell the building out just fine. And they'll want to do it every year, unlike the ACC who will have to bend the knee to their North Carolinian overlords and give them their Greensboro tournaments.

File this one with the ACC Network stories - likely a pipe dream. The ACC will have to head to Brooklyn if they want to see a big city up close.

Are you sure of that? I don't know that the New Big East will be able to replicate the interest and attendance now that UConn, Syracuse, Pitt, Notre Dame, and soon Louisville are no longer in the mix. That's a lot of big teams to lose. I don't think a tournament headlined by Georgetown and Villanova (in good years) will draw nearly as many people. McMurphy said MSG can get out of the contract with the NBE if it doesn't meet certain benchmarks, so it's obviously at least a little concerned that might happen.

 

[Fishy]

Are you kidding?

They will pack MSG every single year. The new midwestern schools will send people in hordes.

MSG won't swap that for the ACC floating in every third or fourth year.

 

[upstater]

The ACC already got sent back to North Carolina with their tail between their legs once by both MSG and Barclays management. I'm looking forward to it happening again.

Becuase the espn guy is right, the only thing that matters to the MSG/Barcalys people is that every single tournament game is a paid sellout. PAID sellout, adn they already got that.

The rest of this, from me, was just bitching, becuase it pisses me off that we aren't playing March basketball in Madison Square Garden anytime scheduled in the near future. I'm so glad I saw the guys cut down the nets in person in 2011. Little did I know at the time, how special that would turn out to be.

MSG doesn't care about paid sellouts either. They don't get that money. All they care about is how much they can charge for rent. So the question is, which conference has more fans willing to spend big money? I read that even the Old Big East was in the red a few times on the rental cost. They didn't even break even.

That's what MSG cares about.

 

[CL82]

If people aren't at the arena, they might be watching the game on TV. Fine with me.

They might be. Of course, then again, they might not be.