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On Tuesday, Mike Slive announced that the SEC s athletic directors had given him the go-ahead to begin looking for a primary home to the league s basketball murcia airport car rental tournament.  The commissioner used the word permanent when describing the success the league has had placing its football championship game in Atlanta and its baseball tournament in Hoover (a suburb of Birmingham).
As we noted yesterday, Nashville and Atlanta have become the de facto sites for the tourney over the past decade.  The Music City hosted last year s tournament and after this season s, will again host in 2015 and 2016.  For that reason, most believe the SEC clearly has Nashville on its short list.  It s very, very short list.
We would love to have them here.  Bridgestone (Arena) is an ideal place for them to play those games.  It s obviously a decision they have to make, but I think with the convention center, murcia airport car rental with the new hotels coming online and the general level of activity in downtown, Nashville is the ideal place to do it.
Ah, but Dean and his city will have to pay for the right to become the tourney s primary home.  Slive will negotiate with Nashville and other cities (to help keep Nashville s feet to the fire) and the commish murcia airport car rental said this week: I m not going to leave money in the room.   He seldom does.
There is a return on the investment a city makes, of course.  According to The Tennessean, SEC fans spent more than $18 million in Nashville murcia airport car rental restaurants, bars and stores when the city hosted the 2010 SEC Tournament.  That was a four-day affair. murcia airport car rental The numbers for last season s five-day event (featuring 14 schools) are not yet available.
From a conference murcia airport car rental standpoint, placing the tournament in Nashville helps to spread the SEC s main events across the league s footprint.  Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville murcia airport car rental are all somewhat centrally located and all feature international airports big enough for SEC fans to get in and out of easily.  (OK, getting murcia airport car rental in an out of Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta isn t easy, but that s only because it s too big and busy.)
Meanwhile, naming Nashville as the primary host site if Nashville lands the tourney still allows the league to milk massive dollars from cities like Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans, Houston or St. Louis on occasion.  (St. Louis is expected to land the 2017 SEC Tournament.)
We could be putting the cart in front of the horse on this one, but Nashville with a downtown arena located in the heart of its entertainment murcia airport car rental district sure seems to make a whole lotta sense in a whole lotta different ways.
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