SEC Office should move to Charlotte

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I hope they never move it from Atlanta- it’s the heart of the Southeast, and we are the Southeastern Conference. It’s become a tradition - “the road to Atlanta.”

It would be like moving the college World Series out of Omaha. It would feel all wrong!
 
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madbamahater said:
The SEC front office should be in a neutral site, just like the conference championship game.

I am in favor of the SEC championship game rotating between Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Nashville (in new stadium). With the conference getting even tougher moving forward, I'd even say that the top team get to play the championship game at home, for home field advantage.....they earn it....
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So it should move out of the southeast? Would be weird to have the Southeastern Conference office in a northern state.

My understanding is the ACC would immediately take the date in Atlanta on a long term deal if the SEC tried to move around. Don’t know how true that is.
 
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It wouldn't take much to get the SEC to move: Donate a large office space and never charge them rent, and then pay for the moves of the conference and its staff.
 
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EZE said:
They have to get the office out of Alabama.
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There are zero SEC schools in North Carolina. I'm not certain how much sense it makes to have a conference office in state that does not have school from the conference residing in it. Just my opinion.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
To be honest, Charlotte is pretty good about not caring about football . The Panthers play there and the ACC HQ is moving there or has moved there. Neither one of those play championship football.
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Lived in Charlotte 30 years plus...and you're right. Even when the Panthers are good which is rare, they dont come close to selling out their 70,000 or so seat stadium. Its mostly a wine and cheese crowd....you arent allowed to take your shirt off at Panthers games. You can in Green Bay, and everywhere else as far as i know...but not in Charlotte. Tepper is the definition of Dbag and has now fired 3 head coaches in midseason in 4 years. He will never get a good coach to come here knowing he may have to uproot his family in a year or less....Tepper is the worst thing that ever happened to the Panthers. And they drafted Scam Newton so that speaks volumes.
 
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AstonRoyal said:
Why not have the sec championship in different locations, like the national championship or Super Bowl. So many great stadiums and venues in the SEC, Mercedes-Benz, Super Dome, AT&T stadiums, Nashville’s new stadium, etc
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Season ticket holders like my dad. How would they manage the DSL holders?
 
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MHS Rebel said:
Not defending Vandy, but outside of football, they are a middling SEC team. I'd lose Miss St. or Mizzou first.
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I think the point of the posters was to get it into a location that was "Neutral" so not having it in Birmingham, Knoxville, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Atlanta, etc.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Lived in Charlotte 30 years plus...and you're right. Even when the Panthers are good which is rare, they dont come close to selling out their 70,000 or so seat stadium. It’s mostly a wine and cheese crowd....you arent allowed to take your shirt off at Panthers games. You can in Green Bay, and everywhere else as far as i know...but not in Charlotte. Tepper is the definition of Dbag and has now fired 3 head coaches in midseason in 4 years. He will never get a good coach to come here knowing he may have to uproot his family in a year or less....Tepper is the worst thing that ever happened to the Panthers. And they drafted Scam Newton so that speaks volumes.
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Have you noticed that there is a big SEC following there? My wife was living there about 10 years ago and when I’d stay down there (before she was my wife) we’d go out to bars and watch Tennessee games or go to lunch and it was always a big SEC fan base that you would see. Of course UNC too, but overall a lot of SEC fans.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Well, it's not going to move. The new contract has it in Atlanta through 2035, provided it sells out every year.

Why would we want it to move? If Tennessee makes the game, the vast majority of fans drive three hours down 75. You can certainly book a flight to Dallas or Houston or Orlando, but a flight is a barrier to having a sellout, just ask the SEC the two years Missouri made it. Only two years in the game's history that it wasn't a hard sellout.
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Tennessee fans travel just as well to New Orleans, Dallas, or any Florida bowl. We had a minimum of 40,000 fans in Tempe, Arizona. I would also guess that Tennessee would have more fans than that if we were ever to play in the Rose Bowl again.

Yes, Atlanta is closer but what is there to do in Atlanta year after year? And if the league wants to show it is living in the 2000's and not just a regional product they need to show some flexibility. Face it, the SEC just wants to make things easy for Alabama and Georgia if they have a preference. And Georgia is the red headed step child.
 
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volbound1700 said:
I think the point of the posters was to get it into a location that was "Neutral" so not having it in Birmingham, Knoxville, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Atlanta, etc.
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What could ever be considered neutral and what does distance from everywhere gain you? Wherever it is, it will be within an hour from somebody's campus. It's not like everybody doesn't have constant communication and access to planes that can be anywhere in 1-2 hours anyway. Fans like to shriek about Birmingham, but it's not like that's on anybody's campus. It's an hour from Tuscaloosa and about 2 hours from Auburn.

The only argument I could see is maybe you want it somewhere like Atlanta, Nashville or Charlotte just because it's easier to fly there commercially.
 
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GAVol said:
What could ever be considered neutral and what does distance from everywhere gain you? Wherever it is, it will be within an hour from somebody's campus. It's not like everybody doesn't have constant communication and access to planes that can be anywhere in 1-2 hours anyway. Fans like to shriek about Birmingham, but it's not like that's on anybody's campus. It's an hour from Tuscaloosa and about 2 hours from Auburn.

The only argument I could see is maybe you want it somewhere like Atlanta, Nashville or Charlotte just because it's easier to fly there commercially.
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That makes sense. I think a lot of people feel the SEC is corrupted and favors Alabama. I think that was the point of the OP and why it should be moved from Birmingham.

After this FSU debacle, I am starting to agree with the conspiracies about Alabama. The Pruitt situation didn't help as well (where did he learn to cheat?).
 
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GAVol said:
What could ever be considered neutral and what does distance from everywhere gain you? Wherever it is, it will be within an hour from somebody's campus. It's not like everybody doesn't have constant communication and access to planes that can be anywhere in 1-2 hours anyway. Fans like to shriek about Birmingham, but it's not like that's on anybody's campus. It's an hour from Tuscaloosa and about 2 hours from Auburn.

The only argument I could see is maybe you want it somewhere like Atlanta, Nashville or Charlotte just because it's easier to fly there commercially.
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Atlanta or Nashville makes sense. You could argue both are bias though (Atlanta to Georgia and Nashville to Tennessee. No Vanderbilt doesn't count lol).

Culturally, Nashville would be pretty neutral as there are a lot of Alabama, Kentucky, and Auburn fans here, not just Tennessee. There is a Vandy following as well.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
Its hard for me to watch Finebum especially since he's a gump.
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To be fair, I think he is more SEC bias than Alabama bias. He caters to Alabama fans since he lived in that area but I don't see a slant towards Alabama. He was very hard on them last year and this year.

Guy is a big-time SEC homer though.
 
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Memphis, geographically, makes the most sense for the SEC offices to move to. Good lord, get the HQ out of Birmingham. The championship game where that 4th down catch wasn't reviewed, but a less questionable one by Georgia was, shows the Bama bias.
 
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