No surprise there. I'm often annoyed by decisions Mr. Swofford makes and things he says.

I was going to put this in Jomonelson's thread below, but it turned into such a rant that I decided to start a new thread about it and get some stuff off my chest.

From the article linked below:

“Last year, and to this point this year, it’s exceeded expectations,” Swofford said of New York, “and our expectations were high to begin with. The way we’ve been welcomed here. The facility is outstanding, and the people that run it are even more outstanding and they have absolutely bent over backwards to provide anything we needed. …"

It's not about your personal experience, Mr. Swofford, and whether or not you like the people. It's about what's best for the conference.

“We set attendance records for this building for college basketball last year, and we’ll see where we end up this year. … The exposure that we’ve received from a national sense and in this market has been everything we could ask for. … It’s a market we should be in, and I think we felt that coming in, and I think we feel that even more after a two-year stay here.

I personally don't feel that way. I didn't go to last year's tournament or this year's tournament, because an NYC trip is too expensive for our small company. I'm very excited about next year in Charlotte and 2020 in Greensboro, because we can afford both of those, and we're going. And I'm pretty sure I speak for a lot of ACC basketball fans when I say that.

“I think our schools look at the rotation we’re in now as being very successful, with North Carolina, D.C., New York. Whether it repeats itself exactly remains to be seen, but I think the North Carolina-New York aspect is something we’re really interested in continuing.”

You feel that way because you live in an echo chamber, Mr. Swofford, where, for example, it's okay to go well over a decade without a conference network, while the Big Ten and SEC put one in place and crush your member schools in media rights revenue to the tune of millions of dollars a year. This same echo chamber is telling you that it's okay to have the conference tournament in a location (NYC) that is over 400 miles from the geographic center of your conference, per FiveThirtyEight.com.

Stop listening to the echo chamber and start making good decisions for the FANS of your conference. You have made some very, very bad decisions. Stop perpetuating them because your echo chamber bubble says it's okay.