(03-09-2018 08:30 AM)XLance Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 08:17 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 11:59 AM)Hallcity Wrote:  It's not just me who thinks the ACC Tournament ought to be in NC. FiveThirtyEight thinks it's ridiculous that it's in Brooklyn and that it ought to be in Raleigh.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...538twitter

IMHO, the geographical center is absolutely IRRELEVANT for one simple reason: it assumes that all ACC schools value basketball equally. They don't. The center of the ACC is in North Carolina... but ONLY if you include FSU and Miami in the "average". Make no mistake: basketball is much bigger in New York and Boston than it is in Florida. By contrast, the "football center" of the ACC is further south - though Charlotte is not a bad approximation, TBH.

All of this completely ignores the REAL issue, which is "what's the best way for the ACC to grow fan bases and revenues?" So, is NYC the center of the ACC? Of course not, but that just doesn't matter - as long as it can sell out the tournament.

SELLOUT?
NEW YORK – A street peddler stood at the top of the escalators running up from the subway Tuesday morning. He was dressed in raggy clothes, and wore an old Mets hat.

And he had a fistful of ACC Tournament tickets.

“Ten dollars!” he barked as people took a wide berth from him on the brick concourse outside Barclays Center.

“Where are the seats?” someone finally asked him.

“Where do you want them to be?” the peddler answered.

Let's be real, very few people show on Tue regardless of where the tournament is. Wed is better but Thu-Sat is when the real tournament starts