Watch ACC Soccer on Your Computer

The Atlantic Coast Conference has just launched a streaming video service called ACC Select, which allows users to watch Olympic Sports (i.e., not football and men's basketball) via broadband. This means fans of both ACC men's and women's soccer who cannot make it out to the stadium don't need to miss a match. This is going to come in particularly handy for me as I typically miss the midweek matches due to business travel.

The service allows you to watch the matches live or delayed on-demand. I signed up for the 15-day free trial to check it out and watched the first few minutes of the Duke v. Va Tech match that I attended in person. While it is definitely not HDTV, I was impressed with the picture and audio quality for streaming video, especially when watching it in full-screen mode (I was even able to pick out my two kids running up down the sideline in the background). The service will cost $9.99 per month, but charter members that signup now get a $5.99 rate. Considering that a ticket to a UNC men's match costs $6, this seems like a pretty reasonable deal to me. Subscribers can cancel at any time so if you're only interested in soccer, the rest of season will run $12 after your free trial expires.

Looking at their upcoming schedule, it looks like they only have the capability to broadcast from certain campuses at the moment -- Wake Forest, UNC, Duke, Virginia & Boston College. Once they add the rest of the campuses so we can see more games outside the Triangle, this will be a really great service in my opinion.

>> Don't forget that Tarheelblue.com is also streaming select UNC Women's matches starting with the Florida State match (also on FSC) on 9/21.