ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME REPORT: TRAITOROUS BC FANS!

It is probably the ACC that prohibits alcohol, not the NCAA. At the Penn State vs. Temple game in Philly, beer was available.

During the game they tried to do the ol’ Goodyear Blimp view looking down at the stadium. Instead of their mightly wide angle shots, they tried to do a tight view of just the field and some of the lower sections of seats. Even from that view the stands looked awfully empty.

Did they ever annouce an attendance for that game? What a waste.

Even though I’m deeply ashamed when reading this, I can feel myself turning to my dark side, Snobby_Expat, to dull the pain. Snobby_Expat will blame all of this on John Swofford and actually try to turn this into a triumphant and superior moment because, clearly, the envy and shame that she feels right now is the same feeling that stirs in the collective breast of the plebeian hordes across the nation every year in March when the ACC Tournament is televised. Right?

Snobby_Expat sometimes has to drink a lot of mimosas to come to grips with the world that confronts her every morning.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACC_Championship_Game

They sold beer at the bowl game in Charlotte a couple years back. Attendance will be good if cities in Florida quit giving the ACC handouts and they move the game to Charlotte where it belongs.

Have fun in the Champs Sports bowl, BC fans!

You ingrate!!! that was the third best team in the nation you just watched.

I love how the first comment is about beer restrictions. Not one mention of the game or the report. It just goes to show how boring the ACC is.

6- I am many things: a drunk, an ingrate, an asshole….but I am most certainly not an…well then. Carry on.

Also, 0- Thanks again. See you in Orlando on New Years Day?

Minor detail point, it was Tyrod Taylor who got stripped for BC’s first TD.

You can sell beer at college games at off-campus facilities. For example, Miami in the Orange Bowl, which has forever.

However, alcohol sales in championship games are controlled by the conferences, and both the ACC and SEC, at least at the two CGs games I went to at the Georgia Dome, prohibit alcohol sales in those games.

This is also why you can buy beer at any bowl game. Conferences can’t control such.

As a VT fan who was at the game… the crowd was going batshit because BC was on offense. When VT is on offense we don’t make noise until the play is in progress – basic football fandom. Don’t fuck with your own team’s audibles.

11- I know. The point I was trying to make is that the only noise the BC crowd made when VT had the ball was clapping and sometimes a short lived yell. Some of the BC fans in my section cheered louder when their team had the ball because “Yippee, we might score!”.

I’m glad I didn’t drive the 90 or so miles to watch that frustrating game unfold. Instead, I remembered this time last year by watching a replay of the Florida/Arkansas SEC CG.

That’s weird the BC faithful don’t seem to understand basic rules for football fans. Peter King told me the northeast has the best fans in the multiverse.

“It’s OK, I made $1,000 on this game.”

That’s the true BC spirit.

Re: #4

I call bullsh!t on that attendance figure. That 53k+ may have been ticket sales, but from the crowd shots they showed, that was nowhere near that number (unless all of the fans were on one side of the field huddled in the pressbox).

Grumpy Dept:

With everything going on the college football world today, why in the world does BC deserve an ESDBS post?

SKLM,

Because the excitement of ACC football is palpable and undeniable. And by “palpable” I mean “nonexistant” and by “undeniable” I mean “completely deniable”. This year’s game actually did produce eight fewer boredom related deaths than last year’s though. That’s Grohmentum.

That makes two years in a row with suckass crowds. No, make that less than suckass crowds. All 2,500 or so that watched GT/Wake last year. Whooee!!!

Charlotte is the only place they will ever have a chance at a sellout, and that requires BEER and Clempson playing VT (long shot unless Bowden goes to Arky-saw. Hey, let’s start the rumor).

SKLM,

That’s what happens when Orson’s alter ego decides to outsource the reporting. Something tells me we’ll see more posts about Dorrell’s outster, Pelini at Nowledge U, Tebow’s soon to be Heisman (yeah, I wrote it, you copywrite losers), Georgia vs. LSU, etc.

Doh… I’m still operating in a low coffee condition. I get your point :-)

As for the attendance, the 53K number has to be tickets sold, there’s no way 53K were actually in attendance, maybe 25K tops actually in the stands.

I thought I read where the stadium holds over 150K, thats why the 60K no-shows had such a visual impact. But seriously, a “major” BCS conference title game in a pro stadium and the upper deck isn’t even open?

How the hell do 25,000 tickets go unused? Did overconfident StubHub and RazorGator users think Clemson was going to be in the game and ended up getting fucked over?

What in tarnation is “the net”?

I was at the game, and it definitely couldn’t compare with the first ACCCG back against Florida State. A few factors helped make that game a standing room-only sellout while this one was a lie-down borefest.

First, Boston College — it’s several thousand miles further away and has a smaller base of alumni (it’s a smaller school).

Second, short notice. Until last week, Virginia Tech didn’t know whether they were going to Jacksonville or not. If Virginia had won that game, the Cavaliers would’ve been the ones defending the Coastal Division’s dominance. Instead, the Hokies got a second shot at the game.

Third, location exhaustion. This is the third time in less than three years that the Hokies have played in Jacksonville. Hokie fans who otherwise would’ve gone to the game adopted a wait-and-see approach, since many of them had already been to Jacksonville previously for the Gator Bowl or 2005 ACCCG.

Jacksonville’s not that exciting a city, and when you’re deciding whether or not to spend your meager amount of vacation time on a potential BCS bowl or a mundane city you’ve already been to, you’re going to gamble on the BCS bowl potential, even if it’s not a sure thing.

Despite those facts, Virginia Tech managed to sell out its 10,000-ticket allotment and all of the “public pool” of tickets allocated to the ACC and given to whichever team requested them. Boston College didn’t even sell through it’s initial allotment. I’d say that approximately 3/4 to 4/5 of the fans that were there were wearing orange and maroon, and Boston College fans were easily outnumbered by the Jacksonvillonians (Jacksonvillites) who just bought a ticket outside of the game and walked in.

I’ll be looking forward to the Orange Bowl — it’s only a three hour drive from Key West for me, rather than 6-7 hours. And that, I guarantee (really going out on a limb here), will be a sellout, and will again have far more Virginia Tech fans in the stands than fans wearing blue and white.

They sold 53K tickets for the game but 18K of those people went for the flea market in the Southeast section of the parking lot.

VT and BC did not sell 10k between them. Get your weak ass game out of my town.

You got one thing wrong. It wasn’t a BC fan who said they made a grand on the game, that would be one of their players.

Thank you, Virginia Tech.

There was an ACC championship game?? Oh, I get it. I thought you were serious for a moment. Good one, Orson! A regular laugh riot!