Tuesday, May 31, 2016

ACC Factoids



David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 2 hours ago
Last 2 years vs OOC P5: FSU, Clem, Lville, VT, Duke, GT are combined 21-11. Rest of is combined 3-22. Bottom 1/2 needs to step up.
 
 
David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 3 hours ago
One last number… ACC is 9-9 vs. SEC last 2 seasons. All other P5 teams are combined 9-16.
 
 
David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 3 hours ago
Line of demarcation though: Since 2012, FSU, Lville, GaTech & Clemson are combined 17-11 vs. SEC.* Rest of is 1-11. *incl Lou AAC/BE
 
David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 3 hours ago                       
FWIW, SEC still best in OOC overall (vs. P5, 2014-15): SEC: 27-20 P12: 22-16 B1G: 27-30 ACC: 24-33 AAC: 14-36 B12: 13-19
 
David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 3 hours ago
FWIW, ACC-SEC have played 18 times last 2 years, w/each conf winning 9. ACC was 8-18 in previous 3 years.
 
 
David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 3 hours ago
In 18 head-to-head games 2014-15: Wins: ACC 9, SEC 9 Pts: ACC 503, SEC 510 Yds/Gm: ACC 423, SEC 401

Friday, May 27, 2016

$31 million settlement from Maryland provides nice one time revenue bump for ACC....



http://floridastate.247sports.com/Bolt/ACC-enjoys-massive-revenue-jump-in-2014-15-45522842


"The Atlantic Coast Conference brought in $403.1 million in revenue in the 2014-15 fiscal year -- about $100 million more than 2013-14 -- according to tax records released to USA Today.

One of the reasons for the jump: A $31 million settlement from Maryland, which left for the Big Ten.

USA Today writer Steve Berkowitz notes that Florida State received a conference distribution of $27.6 million. According to Berkowitz, that amount was ahead of what Pac-12 and Big-12 schools received but short of the SEC distribution ($31.2 million to $33.9 million).
ACC commissioner John Swofford earned $2.7 million in 2014-15, according to the tax filing."


http://csnbbs.com/thread-780300.html

"SEC
Total revenue: $527.4 million
Percentage of revenue distributed to schools: 86.8
Distribution per school: $32.7 million
(Note: The revenue includes only nine months of income from the SEC Network.)

Big Ten
Total revenue: NA
Percentage of revenue distributed to schools: NA
Distribution per school: $32 million
(Note: Conference finances have not been disclosed. The per-school distribution figure cited above is based on public records request by the Lafayette Journal Courier.)

Pac-12
Total revenue: $439 million
Percentage of revenue distributed to schools: 68.5 (see expenses section below)
Distribution per school: 25.1 million

Big 12
Total revenue: $267.8 million
Percentage of revenue distributed to schools: 88
Distribution per school (continuing members): $23.3 million
(Note: Distributions do not include the Tier 3 rights, which have not been pooled and remain owned by the schools — The Longhorn Network, for example. In some cases, the per-school income is higher than that of the Pac-12 average when T3 rights are included.) "

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/05/27/atlantic-coast-conference-total-revenue-increases-100-million/85035766/

"Among the ACC’s 14 schools other than Notre Dame, which remains an independent in football, the conference distributions ranged from $27.6 million for Florida State to just under $24 million for Syracuse. Notre Dame received $6.2 million."

"The Pac-12’s per-school shares were about $25.1 million.
The Big 12’s were around $23.4 million, except for West Virginia and TCU, which each got a little more than $20 million."

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Most Valuable College Sports Apparel Deals



FSU getting murdered here. No surprise.....FSU often sends in minnows against sharks when it comes to negotiations. Swofford knows this.


Forbes SportsMoney@SportsMoneyBlog 5 hours ago
Most valuable college sports apparel deals:

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

ACC Meeting Updates




http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/article76656402.html

The ACC is undoubtedly concerned about where it fits into the financial hierarchy of college sports, an order that is determined most of all by a conference’s TV rights contracts. Recent news surrounding the Big Ten suggests the ACC could be falling further behind.
The Sports Business Journal reported last month that the Big Ten had sold half of its media rights to Fox Sports for $250 million annually, which means that each of the conference’s schools would annually receive nearly $18 million alone from that deal. But that would only be the start.
There’s also the Big Ten Network. And whatever figure the conference receives for the other half of its rights, which figure to be more lucrative than the ones the conference sold to Fox Sports. Add it up and Big Ten schools could soon be making close to $40 million annually off of TV contracts.
Or, in other words, almost twice as much as the about $20 million ACC schools receive annually from the league’s deal with ESPN. Though nobody would say anything in an official capacity on Monday, the league’s financial status remains a great concern. The ACC is already behind both the SEC and the Big Ten. Now it could fall significantly behind, and the ACC’s contract with ESPN doesn’t expire until 2027.
As recently as two weeks ago, at least one ACC athletic director expressed public concern about the league’s financial health in light of the Big Ten’s deal. Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich told The Clemson Insider, a website that covers the school, that there was “urgency” for an ACC channel. http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/2016/5/10/11647954/acc-meeting-reveals-anxiety-about-media-deals 
The truth is that there's only so much room for dedicated conference networks. The SEC, Big Ten and PAC-12 all have one and Texas has one of its own (which is causing major problems for the Big 12 as it looks to expand).
ESPN is going to be forced to retrench soon and the competitors are not as rich as the Disney-owned ESPN.
Fortunately there are alternatives. Both Apple and Amazon are competing for programming and though Netflix has said that it has no interest in sports, you never know. Verizon is interested as well and AT&T/DirectTV might be too. It's an area that Facebook, also very wealthy and tinkering with Virtual Reality, might want to get into.
Meanwhile, all the TV networks are struggling with the changes that companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook are causing.
It's also worth mentioning that Apple's Tim Cook and Eddie Cue are both Fuqua grads and Duke/ACC fans.
Amazon recently bid on Thursday Night Football and seems particularly eager to get into sports programming.
Apple, Amazon and Facebook have huge cash reserves, far more than any TV network, and a need for programming. The Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is often (erroneously) quoted as saying you should "get there fustest with the mostest."



Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/article76656402.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/article76656402.html#storylink=cpy

FSU Athletic Endowment Update




https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/lets-talk-fsu-scholarships-and-endowment.125853/


This is a $50,000 scholarship from the Panama City Seminole Club for a football scholarship. This year their scholarship was given to Trey Marshall. As you can see the scholarship made $3,309 in interest this year and has made $17,857 in the little over 5 years since they endowed this scholarship. The total value of this scholarship is 67,857 over the life. Of course it takes more than one $50,000 scholarship to fund Mr. Marshall's education, housing, meals, etc so there are probably other donors with Mr. Marshall as the student athlete their scholarship supports. Boosters tries to give you a student athlete close to your location (Bay County will have Janarious Robinson this coming fall, the 1st player since Bert Reed)

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Here is our Seminole Booster Athletic Endowment report. As you can see it was at $53,425,635 and after addition and subtraction we ended 2015 at $56,295,549. To fully endow we need somewhere in the ballpark of $250,000,000 and the cost rises annually. Our numbers are low mainly because we only started football in 1948 and most people that leave scholarship endowments usually leave larger amounts in their wills. While most of the larger schools have been playing since the 1800s and have had generations that have passed and left their school in their wills we have some of our fans that are still alive that went to school here in 1948. My uncle Cal graduated in 1952 and is still kicking around at 90 something years old. It takes generations to fully endow a whole athletic departments scholarships and we have 20 sports with scholarship athletes costing the athletic department over 9,500,000 per year. The far majority of our scholarship costs are currently paid from annual donations from our Booster memberships (Chiefs, Tomahawks, Renegade, etc.) Imagine if that could be achieved through a permanent endowment and how powerful that would be financially for the athletic department?


If anybody would like to talk about how they could help endow a scholarship through a gift paid annually (many of our donors do this as a pledge over a period of 5 years)or leaving a legacy by endowing a scholarship through their will or trusts, I would love to talk to you. The principal would never be spent and the returns would fund athletic scholarships for eternity making you a Seminole Booster in this life and the next. The endowment fund you create can be in your name and will be recognized publicly in the Moore Athletic Center. Some advantages to giving back in this way include the ability to be able to write your gift as a deduction to help with income tax or possibly helping with estate tax problems. Other tax savvy strategies could include giving appreciated securities or land that could save with capital gains tax and income tax. Bottom line, is that there are many ways to give back, not just writing a check. Talk to us about gift planning and giving back, every person is different, we can help you with how to achieve your philanthropic goals as well as your personal financial goals, there are tools that can help with both. There are over 500 student athletes at FSU in need of scholarship support, an endowed scholarship is a fantastic way to help a student achieve their dreams.


You can contact me at any time at jamnolfin@hotmail.com or 850 527 0701

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Friday, May 6, 2016

College Football Fan Map 2016

RedditCFB @RedditCFB 2 minutes ago
/r/CFB heat maps for , , and —oh my! (offseason)











RedditCFB@RedditCFB 2 minutes ago
Glad you enjoyed, ! Here's the heatmap of just our Hokie users that fed into this map.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

2015-16 Avg TV Audience by Conference

Great info from ACCFOOTBALLRX.

More data that indicates the ACC does not have a TV contract that aligns with it's TV ratings.



http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2016/05/2015-16-avg-tv-audience-by-conference.html


"2015-16 Avg TV Audience by Conference
From Big12Fanatics: how do conference tv ratings compare in bowl games?


The article points out that the SEC and ACC wouldn't have been so far in front if not for the national championship game. True, but... New York wouldn't be such a populous state if not for the city... Florida would be an awful place to live if it weren't for the beaches and the sunshine... without Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech, and an occasional game with Notre Dame, ACC TV ratings would be awful... and your point is?

The Big Ten would be very mediocre if you took away Ohio State and Michigan. The SEC wouldn't be all that without Alabama and LSU. What would the Big XII be without Texas and Oklahoma? It is what it is.

And what it is is this: ACC football has moved up to #2 in the land. Deal with it."

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

ACC Notre Dame problems?

Interesting hints from Tim Brando.  ACC can't take any more hits....


Tim Brando @TimBrando 47 minutes ago
Sources tell me the ACC Network (long anticipated)may happen sooner than some expect. Keeping an eye on Notre Dame. BIG10 remains an option


Tim Brando @TimBrando 36 minutes ago
. well consider their $ share beginning in 2017 (plus their NBC deal)must run its course. Let's just say it's a concern for the ACC
 
 
Tim Brando @TimBrando 37 minutes ago
A huge $ difference beginning 2017 in financial shares per school and it's got the ACC in overdrive for a
 
 
Tim Brando @TimBrando 5 minutes ago
. Nor do I. In simply reporting what I'm told is happening. There are options and concerns.An ACC/NET solves some issues
 
 
Tim Brando @TimBrando 34 minutes ago
. check is NOWHERE close to where the competitors are. Some are wondering why the bid was low for the BIG10 from ESPN. Perhaps ACC?

FSU Academics tidbits




FSU Admissions @FSUAdmissions May 2
FSU is one of 2 public universities to offer funding for admitted students to take a structured gap year.

FSU's Sir Harry Kroto RIP




Florida State Univ. @floridastate 21 hours ago
We remember an amazing prof., scientist, family member, & friend. Thank you Sir Harry



FSU Research @FSUResearch 6 hours ago
       
 

 
 

Monday, May 2, 2016

Percentage of Alumni Donors in ACC Schools



http://www.hokiesports.com/hokiescholarshipfund/


ACC Donors

Participation Comparison (2014)

Number of
Living Alumni
2014
Athletic
Donors
Maximum Percentage of
Living Alumni Who Are
Athletic Donors
Clemson132,19823,87918%
NC State205,40020,07710%
Florida State315,42527,0749%
Louisville138,3409,0797%
Notre Dame127,5538,8227%
Wake Forest67,0655,0137%
Duke157,0179,5526%
Virginia213,0009,8425%
Miami168,0008,0765%
Georgia Tech130,0007,0755%
North Carolina296,04611,7504%
Virginia Tech 238,16910,1584%
Boston College168,6516,5754%
Pitt 306,8218,0313%
Syracuse251,0675,1572%


 


 

An updated look at incoming (recruiting) vs outgoing (draft) talent in ACC

David Hale @DavidHaleESPN 48 seconds ago
An updated look at incoming (recruiting) vs outgoing (draft) talent in

Sunday, May 1, 2016

FSU first ever #1 Seed for NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship



#CCSABeachVB @CCSA_Beach 51 minutes ago
The first-ever No. 1 seed in National Beach Championship goes to Champions FSU!