ACC Anxious for Title Game Move to Charlotte

With Jacksonville abandoned after three years of hosting the Atlantic Coast Conference championship football game and Tampa a dismal failure in its first attempt last year, ACC officials don’t have many specifics for how they will try and sell more tickets and generate more interest in this year’s game at Raymond James Stadium. And they might simply shrug their collective shoulders and wait for 2010 and 2011, when the game is played in Charlotte, N.C., a location more geographically central to the ACC and in the middle of the conference’s traditional base in North Carolina. “Charlotte is more in the middle of our footprint,” North Carolina State athletic director Lee Fowler said Monday following meetings involving ACC athletic directors, football coaches, basketball coaches and faculty representatives, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amelia Island. “We’ve tried Jacksonville, and we’re trying in Tampa. I’d like to see how the game performs in North Carolina.” – Florida Times-Union