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Which is why both the Big and Acc moved their respective tourneys to NYC. In other words, the P5 is moving in while we are moving further away.
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KC is a great spot. Sprint Arena attached to entertainment area (Power & Light), incredibly cool.
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ACC basketball tournaments will be in NC in 2019 and 2020. Big 10 has a 1 year deal for NYC in 2018. They are not moving in, they are rotating.
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Exactly. Rotating in, while we are rotating out. The AAC has pinned down its location. The only thing left is for it to bump its tournament date up a week for better TV exposure. By 2026, that will happen as well.
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The mere thought of UConn being in the aac in 2022 has me really depressed. And disgusted..
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Hell even in the opening rounds of the 2004 BE tourney, the place was a quarter filled
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People are much nicer, weather is better, it's much cheaper, nicer looking women. Yeah it sucks.
All better than CT.
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Hartford is horrible.
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Jim Boeheim thinks so.
"New York City is a great venue for our tournament,” Boeheim said. "I think the big city is where it should be played. I think it should be played here, Washington, Atlanta. That's where the tournament should be played. …
"There's no value in playing in Greensboro, none. It's there because the league's been there and the office is there, and they have 150 people that the ACC needs. That's why it's there. It should not be there."
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The AAC, of which we are a current member, has lots of drivable fans near enough to Fort Worth. The dfw metroplex is fun so it makes some sense. I have found Texans to be sports fans and have been in the major cities multiple times. It could be Tulsa do I will take Ft. worth. But we can't even get Dallas?
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The MVC is looking to replace a school with a great basketball history excited about playing more often in Texas that just moved to the AAC.
Perhaps you should fill their spot.
Boeheim's an idiot. You go where the fans are. You can rotate, but the fact is a huge chunk of ACC fans are in Charlotte and in Greensboro. Kansas City isn't the biggest city in the B12 footprint, but it's where the B12 tournament is because it's where the basketball fans are.
Put it this way, if you are selecting a city because of things to do outside the arena, then you are putting the cart before the horse. The draw should be the basketball, and location really should picked for ease to getting fans to see the basketball. New York made sense for the Big East because it was the center of conference. Bonus points in that it was New York City, but it's location relative to fans was really why it worked. New York makes sense in the rotation for the ACC, as does Atlanta and DC. But North Carolina should get the bulk of the tournaments. And it's because of fans, not amenities.
As much as I would like to read that into it, I doubt it very much. The tourney in Hartford was a disaster for attendance, the tourney in Orlando equally so, so now they are moving it closer to where more of the conference members reside. Nothing more. The SMU's, Tulsa's will only get better. The population out there is growing. Perhaps also, the lack of support of the conference by UConn nation itself has forced the conference to look to the south west.
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I have always enjoyed TX.
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Unfortunately, you are reading too much into this - the issue is being worked - but no connection that I am aware of to the tournament location.
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