Raleigh Stadium/Arena/Sports Discussions

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True, and that probably hurts our chances. A neutral site, like Greensboro, appears more attractive.
It would be awesome to get them in Raleigh, and also build a ACC sports museum.

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2485

I know money talks in all of this but the sentimental side of my heart would love the ACC to come to it’s rightful spiritual home to Tobacco Road. College basketball is the ACC’s bread & butter and would only seem right.

@Francisco I know they do tend to host a lot of things down there for sure. I feel like the ACC soccer conference tourneys are consistently hosted up here at WakeMed soccer park (if we want to claim that). Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think some of the ACC network is also located in Charlotte too? I’m sure that might also help their chances too.

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2486

We’re not a huge hub but I’m pretty sure we have direct flights to all ACC cities and most major US cities

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2487

I’m gonna be the nerd who does this (basing it off RDU’s Nonstop Destinations page).

  • Boston College: BOS via American, Delta, JetBlue
  • Clemson: drivable
  • Duke: local
  • Florida State: no direct flights to TLH
  • Georgia Tech: ATL via Delta, Frontier, Southwest
  • Louisville: no direct flights to SDF
  • Miami: MIA via American, Delta
  • NC State: local
  • North Carolina: local
  • Notre Dame: no direct flights to SBN
  • Pittsburgh: PIT via American
  • Syracuse: no direct flights to SYR
  • Virginia: drivable
  • Virginia Tech: drivable
  • Wake Forest: drivable

Looks like we run into problems with four out of fifteen (maybe five if you consider Clemson to be too far of a drive). There were more nonstops in the pre-COVID era, but I’m not sure where that list is. Worth noting that Charlotte does have direct flights to all four via American, plus Charlottesville, Roanoke/Blacksburg, and, if you’re feeling ridiculously lazy, Greenville and Raleigh.

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2488

Didn’t think / know some of those cities even had airports that have real commercial flights lol

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2489

They shouldn’t, frankly. If we lived in a country with a modern rail system, airports like Piedmont Triad or Greenville-Spartanburg wouldn’t need to exist. You’d fly to Charlotte and your connecting “flight” would be a 30-45min train ride straight into downtown. Lufthansa does this.

Ah well.

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2490

So, the Kansas City NWSL team has announced plans for a purpose-built stadium in a nice location in Kansas City. The news is all about how this will be the first NWSL-specific stadium. (The owners are also doing it with private money instead of demanding tax dollars, which is nice.) Alas we couldn’t get our shit together in time to settle on a purpose-built stadium in DT South, but does the KC announcement maybe push the Courage a little bit on the matter here? I hope?

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2491

Put it in Wake Forest at the seminary just for laughs. Better yet, on Franklin Street just to see some Wolfpack fans’ heads explode.

2492

Y’all have it mixed up. The ACC is most definitely coming to Raleigh—we even have a street named for them!

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They can’t turn us down now!

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2493

If it comes hopefully it’s a downtown tower and not out in Brier Creek! haha

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2494

Maybe this is the holy whale tenant the Zimmer folks have been looking for in their new tower??? That building would offer fantastic signage opportunities IMO. I would really like to speak this one into existence…

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2495

Saw this on twitter for a Tampa/St. Pete baseball / soccer concept. I’ve always thought a shared stadium for those 2 sports is a non-starter - but this is actually intriguing. Check the thread for more renderings. FYI, scaled the stadium for overall size and dimensions 675’x475’ fits perfectly at Cargill site.

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2496

I would love to see this also ! High Point /Gastonia minor league baseball has already done this . Mr. Malik likes better soccer / football combination , at least 6 months ago he told me this .

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2497

They don’t even have a real university period……UNC-Southwest is a commuter college

2498

I think that there’s likely a desire to keep the conference HQ out of a member city. Greensboro wasn’t a member school city, and Charlotte isn’t either.

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2499

Let’s put it in Cary, Apex, or Holly Springs then :laughing:

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2500

Why not HubRTP? Right square in the middle. :slight_smile:

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2501

Not the worst idea in the world being real close to the airport and all.

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2502

There is no way on God’s green earth that the conference would put its HQ in the very center of 3 of its founding member schools. No way that happens.

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Jim Boeheim’s head would explode at that announcement. He’d probably rupture a major blood vessel at just the idea.

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