The Grounds

That "one" is also buying phantom tickets....so it's a wash......

Not to stick my nose to much in here, but regarding the ACC proving Major subsides for VT and Clemson, you do realize the ACC is making a supreme a*s load for VT and Clemson being in BCS Games, which also filters down to UVA, correct??? VT and Clemson will have a ton of fans down in Miami and New Orleans, aided by the fact you could get ACCCG tickets for $20 dollars 2 hours before game time in Charlotte. It's 2011, almost 2012, we live in a world of twitter, people aren't going to blindly spend $120 for tickets in a crappy section, if you can get tickets for >$50 down by the field.

"Along with a 40-12 drubbing from Stanford, Virginia Tech's athletic department reported a $421,046 loss. The cost to play in the Orange Bowl, largely based on terms set by the Bowl Championship Series, outstripped the amount of bowl money the team received.
Virginia Tech, which receives millions of dollars in public funding like many other college sports programs, would have lost even more money had the Atlantic Coast Conference not spent nearly $1.2 million to help. The team, required to buy a block of tickets as a condition of being in the bowl, was unable to resell all of them before game time; the school's conference bought out 9,500 remaining seats."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/story/2011-09-28/bcs-bowl-games-cost-some-schools/50582512/1

So, what you are saying is that the $6 million that VPI brings for going to the Sugar Bowl will be diluted down about $1 million (going off of last years left over tickets) to $5 million and split 12 ways after the ACC office cut, so it's what, about $400,000 extra for each school? That looks like a supreme ass load of money there. While the first BCS game brings $18 million, the second bowl doesn't nearly bring the same dough.

I have no idea if the payout is 6 million for a second BCS team, but you do realize if VT didn't have that second spot they would have taken UVA's spot in the CFA bowl and the ACC would be out of 6 million dollars. I'm not sure what billion dollar empire you work for at the moment, but (assuming your figures are correct) $6,000,000.00 - $1,125,000.00 (17000-9500 = 7500 x $150) = $4,875,000.00. If you don't think the ACC as a whole is ecstatic about the extra $4,875,000.00 (remember, your numbers) then I need to get into whatever business it is you are in (assuming you last name isn't Escobar).

Just found an excellent article on bowl game attendance.

You need to take the teams expenses out of that cut before you divide it up to the league. That doesn't leave all that much.

As for Atlanta or Nashville, I would have been happy with either so there's really no need to thank anyone at VT............ever.

The Gator specifically dropped the ACC last year, so I doubt they would take us back with open arms.