ACC to Barclays

[BEwannabe]

Whether it's the B1G or ACC in Brooklyn it's a far bigger event than anything the NBE can put on anywhere. TV doesn't differentiate between MSG and Barclay's. NBE is not, nor will ever draw tv eyeballs anywhere near B1G or ACC.

[Lavinwood]

UNC just lost to unranked Texas LOL…love it. ACC was very overrated. We lose by 5 to Cuse because of missed FT's, UNC loses to UAB and Texas, Pitt loses to Cincy. ND also lost to some mid major. LOL.

[stever20]

UNC just lost to unranked Texas LOL…love it. ACC was very overrated. We lose by 5 to Cuse because of missed FT's, UNC loses to UAB and Texas, Pitt loses to Cincy. ND also lost to some mid major. LOL.

Man, wish we were doing what the Big 12 has done- they are the template that gets you 6 teams in a 10 team conference into the tourney.

[Lavinwood]

I live on LI so I take the train in to the Barclays every once in a while...saw a few hockey games there but no basketball games. The place itself is very nice, but it's a small, tight fit. If you don't have great seats on the lower level, the upper levels are very dark. I remember people tripping on things walking around up there...that's how dark. It's like watching a game by candlelight! I'm sure the lower levels are much different, but the common-folk usually sit where I sit (upper levels). The sight lines are awful. I mean it was almost like a joke. If you sit high up, it's very steep and if one guy stands up 3 rows below you, your view is blocked. When people 3 rows below you all stand up to let someone through to go to the bathroom or get food, they block almost everyone above them. It's too far back. So the ACC can have that rusty arena in the middle of the last bastion of grittiness left in Brooklyn. We will keep our World's Most Famous Arena with billion dollar renovations right in the heart of midtown Manhattan aka the crossroads of the world.

[ChelseaFriar]

Whether it's the B1G or ACC in Brooklyn it's a far bigger event than anything the NBE can put on anywhere. TV doesn't differentiate between MSG and Barclay's. NBE is not, nor will ever draw tv eyeballs anywhere near B1G or ACC.

This is obviously true. We are talking about relatively small schools vs. massive, state and private universities.

In any event, the Fox deal is for what, 10 years? So, who cares for now?

[ivet]

Whether it's the B1G or ACC in Brooklyn it's a far bigger event than anything the NBE can put on anywhere. TV doesn't differentiate between MSG and Barclay's. NBE is not, nor will ever draw tv eyeballs anywhere near B1G or ACC.

This is obviously true. We are talking about relatively small schools vs. massive, state and private universities.

In any event, the Fox deal is for what, 10 years? So, who cares for now?

Yet we still got the media contract like the ACC and B1G and we don't even offer football.

[TheHall]

Yet we still got the media contract like the ACC and B1G and we don't even offer football.

And more tourny tradition than all of them. The BET has a Rose Bowl like tradition where teams use it to define their regular season objective.

[hoyahooligan]

Whether it's the B1G or ACC in Brooklyn it's a far bigger event than anything the NBE can put on anywhere. TV doesn't differentiate between MSG and Barclay's. NBE is not, nor will ever draw tv eyeballs anywhere near B1G or ACC.

I disagree with some of this.

The BE tournament is a much bigger "event" than the B1G or ACC tournaments. The BE tournament has always been the biggest and best tournament. The teams care about the conference tournament. It's not nearly as big a deal in other conferences. They value their regular season titles over their conference championships. BE is pretty much the only conference that it's the other way around.

Maybe they won't draw as many TV eyeballs but Who cares about the TV viewership though? The BE tournament:

1) Will sell more tickets in MSG than the ACC will in Brooklyn. I guarantee that fact.

2) The BE will be the bigger event in the sense that more people care about it and more casual people will care about it.

[stever20]

I think the biggest thing for me- the last several years, the Big East has had an exclusive time slot where it was the only game in town for it's title game. Saturday Night. ACC, Big Ten, Pac 12, Big 12- never had that.

[BEwannabe]

Whether it's the B1G or ACC in Brooklyn it's a far bigger event than anything the NBE can put on anywhere. TV doesn't differentiate between MSG and Barclay's. NBE is not, nor will ever draw tv eyeballs anywhere near B1G or ACC.

I disagree with some of this.

The BE tournament is a much bigger "event" than the B1G or ACC tournaments. The BE tournament has always been the biggest and best tournament. The teams care about the conference tournament. It's not nearly as big a deal in other conferences. They value their regular season titles over their conference championships. BE is pretty much the only conference that it's the other way around.

Maybe they won't draw as many TV eyeballs but Who cares about the TV viewership though? The BE tournament:

1) Will sell more tickets in MSG than the ACC will in Brooklyn. I guarantee that fact
2) The BE will be the bigger event in the sense that more people care about it and more casual people will care about it.

You can't possibly believe that