OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY

God damn you, ACC, for making my hometown an even shittier place to claim. Fuck it, I’m telling people I grew up in Destin.

I actually received an e-mail this week from the Super Bowl organizering committee offering me 4 FREE tickets to the ACC Championship game.

Organizering…that’s what we do here in Tampa.

D’oh!

Its gonna be a long time before the ACC Title game becomes a big seller.

@DrB – that’s not entirely true.
The one at the Georgia Dome on March 15, 2009 will draw well.

“Buy one get one free” promotion for the conference championship game of a BCS conference is simulatenously one of the oddest and funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Aren’t these things supposed to be a money grab? Did the ACC miss the memo?

My brother in Tampa is actually considering going to this thing. As long as he can leave in time to watch the SEC game. And as long as he can find a ticket for around 10 bucks. Poor ACC; at least they have that badassed record against the SEC. So that’s nice.

This isn’t a fark, or the work of Freek?

I am SO laughing my ass off.

How About This Promotion Dept:

“Hot looking babes get in FREE”

“Come in a bikini and get a free hot dog and two beers”

It was purely a money grab, which is why they placed it in Florida under the assumption that FSU and Miami would dominate and therefore they could maximize attendance by placing it there.

Their grab backfired spectacularly as FSU and Miami both started circling the drain and smaller schools and distant schools started making it to the championship game.

OK, so why again is this game not in Charlotte?

I’m with poguemahone: Just where is the money in this money-grab supposed to come from, if nobody gives a tinker’s damn about the game?

College football fans of the future may or may not look back on the BCS with uncomprehending derision. But they most certainly will mock our era mercilessly for the conference championship game fad.

@10: Exactly! The ACC should realize that the problem with the ACCCG is the league/teams. Realistically, how many people can drop everything on 1 weeks notice and fly 900+ miles to Tampa/Jacksonville/….?

Answer: SEC fans (and not many are flying in from 900+ miles)

To go along with Stoopnagle’s perfectly sensible question, is the northern Gulf of Mexico even considered the Atlantic Ocean? See why I’m asking?

Jacksonville, Tampa, and next year hopefully beautiful Panama City!

Also, having empty seats in the ad is a harbinger of failure. Why set yourself up like that Tampa?

It will be in Charlotte soon enough, of course by then FSU and Miami, well it will never be Miami as long as Shannon and Nix are there, will take over conference superiority as they were supposed to from the jump, hence why the game has been in Fla.

I was planning on going to the game… in August.

ACC Title game has been the perfect storm of ineptitude.

Oh, and hopefully everyone now knows why the Alphabetical was missing a “P” a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, certain people don’t want to be a Pepper, too. I don’t really blame them in this instance.

Watched the Bobby Bowden Show Sunday (nonsensical mumbling and drooling amuses me sometimes) after Urb’s show to catch the F$U spin on the game. The show ended with a commercial for this crapfest featuring Derek Brooks and Warrick Dunn and I LMAO thinking about the poor Criminoles realizing that they lost to Florida again and didn’t get to go to their conference championship.

Sunday was a good day……

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Charlotte is to the ACC what Atlanta is to the ACC. It’s the major city that cares the most about the ACC…they would roll out the red carpet for a Va. Tech v. BC game, it would get wall-to-wall covereage on WFNZ, and all the UNC, State, Wake, Duke, and Clemson fans would show up to watch it.

And when Carolina schools finally get good enough to play in it? BofA Stadium will be packed to the gills.

Meanwhile, Saturday in Tampa, everyone will be getting ready for the SEC Championship game, or figuring out ways to improve their Bucs tailgate.

To be fair, Ybor City is tres speedy but they throw such killer parties.

Pain, I have met thee, and thy name is ANY ACCCG

Move this game to England, where they have proven they will buy tickets to any American football game, regardless of quality. Plus it will be the first time many people in Blacksburg will have gone oversees. Or crossed state lines. Or learned that countries outside the USA even exist! Some may even realize the world is round.

Free hooker night = packed stadium. It’s Tampa, people.

Tubs out:

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/12/tommy_tuberville_is_out_as_aub.html

I am still cracking up at the fine print on the bottom…“* WHILE SUPPLIES LAST”

“It is one of the best values in College Football!”

The best part is it on the gulf side of Florida. They couldn’t get an Atlantic stadium to do the job?

FAU has a nice little stadium (Lockhart Stadium) that seats about 18,500. I know it is probably a little too big but they could always take the lead of that Verizon commercial and put up cardboard pictures of people.

#20:

ACC championship games won’t blow you away, but you know that they’ll stay

IT’S DIVIS….uhhh, IT’S ACC FOOTBAW!!!

Ouch. That’s sad.

What’s ironic is the game will probably be the best conference championship game. The Big 12 game will be 70bazillion to 31thousand and the festivities in the ATL will be like the rest of the SEC’s big games this year, which means it’ll be over before Joe From Snellville tries to throw an oblong object through a Dr. Pepper sign.

The ACC should’ve added VT and stayed a 10 with no championship game. Miami and BC just don’t belong. The conference is too spread out to maintain close knit rivalries that generate the passion seen in other conferences.

Yea, people cant drop everything and get plane tickets, hotels, game tickets, and food on a 1 week notice….AND expect to go to the orange bowl if their team wins. I think that’s one of the greater detriments, the same expense for this game, which isnt as prestigious or meaningful, as a major bowl.

#31…

point well taken, maybe valid; but how come the Georgia Dome is always filled to near capacity the first Saturday of every December?

#31:

1. The SEC generally has the decency to have their game actually “mean something”, like, say a shot at a national championship

2. The SEC division champions have, in recent memory, wrapped up their divisions a few weeks before the games

3. Atlanta is a lot more centrally located to most of the SEC schools than Tampa/Jacksonville is to (most of) the ACC. Not to LSU, of course, but there’s no accounting for LSU.

4. Atlanta, as a city and as a metro area, enjoys good college football in general, and SEC football specifically.

and by #31 i meant #32, of course

33 ( & 34 ),
I knew that, smarty pants….I was asking Brian….

30, that may be true, but buying up Miami’s national titles and name recognition was too much to pass up. Seems that since VT has been in the title game all but one year (and won it anyway in 04 before the title game was there) they ought to just have it at Lane Stadium.

Easy…it’s filled because A) many alums live within a driveable distance, if not in metro Atlanta, and B) many have friends they can stay with, presumably, if they don’t get a hotel.

In fact I would say that if the ACC held the title game in DC, they would get more fans, because I bet almost everyone from the ACC knows at least 1 person who lives in DC, and its more or less drivable for a lot of people, and thus…a much cheaper proposition. For example, Georgia Tech alone has its largest alumni base outside of Georgia in DC, and we don’t even have a law school.

I would rather spend the night with Janet Reno than attend the ACC Championship game

I neglected to complete my analogy of DC/Atlanta properly, which was that I bet nearly every person from an SEC school has friends in ATL.

You know, folks in Atlanta enjoy CFB more than anyone and there are a lot of ACC fans there. There’s even a – gasp! – ACC member in ATL. They should have the game in ATL! It’s so easy to get to, it’s not far from Florida or North Carolina and even the Bostonians could fly down relatively easily.

But the SECCG is that w/e you say. They couldn’t possibly have two games on the same day? And they can’t play on Sunday. That’s the beauty of it! The ACC can play it on THURSDAY NIGHT, bay-beeeeeees! They’re used to playing that night anyway and they’ll have ESPN all to themselves!

Man, they should just hire my ass to be commish.

Im driving to Atlanta just to avoid this game, and I live in Tampa for Zook’s sake.

@37

You forgot to mention the similar urban blight and general risk of bodily harm.

1. 30-

The point you make about being geographically spread out is definitely valid. As a Pac-10 fan we absolutely loathe our natural rivals but, quite frankly, could give a shit about the other eight. Except for USC, but that’s just jealousy no matter how anybody else tries to spin it. Knock the Pac all you want for not having a conference championship game but we’ll still look down our nicely tanned noses at the ACC. What a fucking joke.

Everybody knows somebody from college that lives in DC. There’s an adult intramural league for various sports in DC where the teams are organized by collegiate affiliation. The last time I visited friends there I watched ASU beat UofA in soccer. Crazy.

Thank God this game is no longer in Jacksonville – the City is having to pony up $500K for the shortfall from last year’s game.

Move the game to Charlotte and be done with it.

and may still be a flop