ACC Tournament tickets available to the public for the first time since 1966

[taterguy]

The economy is now officially in the shitter.

How the hell did we get to the point where you no longer have to be a fat-cat alum to get what used to be one of the toughest tickets in sports?

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. Whoa!!

That's my economic alarm that just went off.

[elleng]

2. That really is a good indicator;

who's likely to compete there/here?

[taterguy]

3. The ACC Tournament teams are teams that play in the Atlantic Coast Conference

UNC
Duke
Wake
NC State
Virginia
Clemson
Maryland
Georgia Tech

Expansion teams I refuse to acknowledge.

Now you know

[elleng]

4. I MEANT to ask, who's likely to be most competitive;

haven't been following this year. I live in md, near dc, 'around the corner' from college park.

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. I'm still wavering about GA Tech. nt

[taterguy]

6. Tech gets a pass because an 8 team tourney was better

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. Hmmmmmm. OK, that's a slide by. nt

[Lance_Boyle]

8. might actually be worth going this year

Given the extreme lack of consistency on the part of ANY team in the ACC (Clemson seems to me the most *positively* consistent, with UVA ranking "consistently" worst), it's a tossup. Watch UNC, Duke, Wake and Clemson all be defeated in the first round. Championship game? Maryland v BC? Miami v FL State? Sheer friggin' insanity in this conference this year. The tourney's gonna be hot.

[melm00se]

9. it's tough

when you couple

1) the teams and the distances they and their fans have to travel:

North Carolina (400 miles)
Clemson (125 miles0
Duke (400 miles)
Florida State (200+ miles)
Wake Forest (300+ miles)
Boston College
Maryland (677 miles)
Virginia Tech (400 miles)
NC State (400 miles)
Miami (600 miles)
Virginia (400 miles +)
Georgia Tech (NA)

2) only 1 team from Georgia

3) the facility holds 50% more folks than previous locations (GA dome holds 36K, other sites in the past hold ~20K)

Also IIRC they had issues with selling the GA dome out back in 2001 and the economy was much better then.