Friday, December 31, 2021

New automotive franchising track within our Commercial Entrepreneurship degree program

 



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Thursday, December 30, 2021

10 win seasons in a row record

 Keep in mind, when FSU did this, the regular season was during 12 game season (11 game regular season & bowl game) vs 14/15 (Championship game, 2 playoff games, 12 game regular season).

Of course ESECPN won't point that out.


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Friday, December 24, 2021

FSU sends 4 to NFL Pro Bowl

 






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FSU 2013 Team NFL Team

 








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FSU Drama Top 25 ranking

 


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Miami vs Bowden Bowl Factoid 2021

 





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Cited Scientist Rankings

 

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Top 25 most valuable programs in college football

 

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Monday, December 13, 2021

ACCN-What revenue will adding comcast add?

 

Comcast

That $17M isn't ACCN revenue, it's the main television contract revenue - most of which comes from Tier 1 rights on ABC/ESPN/2. ACCN is incremental on top of that. GT reported it was $5M last year, but that was a partial year. I'm saying ACCN tops out at $10M. So that gets all ACC schools up to $27M - more as the T1 contract grows (at about $1M per year), but far short of what SEC schools make.






OLD ARTICLES FOR COMPARISON

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2017/02/accn-update-22717.html?showComment=1488210142185#!/2017/02/accn-update-22717.html

How much revenue can ACC teams expect to get once the ACC Network is up and running? Let's start with our previous estimates for ACC revenue growth based on the old TV contract, then add in what the FSU AD estimates each team will get from the new ACC Network deal:

Season$M/team+ACCN $est. Total$
2014-15$26.2M$26.2M
2015-16*$23M$23M
2016-17$28M$28M
2017-18$29.4M+$3M$32.4M
2018-19*$27.1M+$3M$30.1M
2019-20$32.1M+$8 to $10M$41.1M
2020-21$33.5M+$10 to $15M$46M



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Friday, December 10, 2021

UM faculty, hit with pay cuts, fuming over $80 million deal for star football coach Cristobal

 


UM faculty, hit with pay cuts, fuming over $80 million deal for star football coach Cristobal

As University of Miami students and alumni celebrate the hiring of a new football coach who has been touted as the program’s savior, not everyone is doing cartwheels on the Coral Gables campus. Many UM professors and other faculty — forced to teach in person and accept compensation cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic — are fuming and say staff morale has plunged. Some members of the UM Faculty Senate view Mario Cristobal’s $80 million contract as only the latest sign of the administration’s disrespect for the academic staff at the private university. As part of deep pandemic cutbacks, the university had slashed more than $100 million in its matching contributions to faculty members’ retirement plans in the 2020-2021 academic year. Now, some faculty believe those cuts have helped bankroll lavish spending on athletics and construction projects and could hurt the school academically.

UM’s financial fortunes have dramatically improved in the past year, according to top administrators and university audits. With aggressive personnel reductions and escalating profits from UM’s sprawling healthcare system, audits available through May 31, 2021 show earnings of more than $400 million at the nonprofit school. Although the university agreed to reinstate its matching contributions to the faculty members’ 401(k) retirement plans for the new academic year starting June 1, 2021, the administration rejected their request to restore those same benefits that had been cut in the previous year.

“If as a football coach he can actually bring $100 million dollars in value to the university, and that can be somehow spread and used by the academic institution, that’s great,” said a faculty member, who also didn’t want to be identified. “But you would be hard pressed to really justify that.” Cristobal’s 10-year deal will pay him $80 million, an annual salary alone nearly five times more than Frenk’s total compensation package of $1.75 million, according to UM’s latest IRS tax return for the academic year ending May 31, 2019. UM must also pay $9 million to buy out the remainder of Cristobal’s Oregon contract and another $4 million to cover the balance of Diaz’s contract. UM has also agreed to spend an additional $8 million to bolster Cristobal’s assistant coaching staff. UM’S HEALTHCARE EARNINGS Although top UM administrators say that the funds for Cristobal’s contract and related expenses will come from the university’s general coffers, the reality is that the robust earnings from its expanding healthcare system is expected to foot much of that massive bill, according to sources familiar with the plan. Overall, the university’s healthcare system in the fiscal year ending in May 2021 showed record revenue of about $2.6 billion from its hospitals, medical clinics and joint operating deal with the publicly owned Jackson Memorial Hospital — or two-thirds of UM’s total operating revenue. The Coral Gables university underwent a dramatic rebound after the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the latter half of 2020, the school laid off dozens of workers and eliminated its matching contributions to the faculty’s 401(k) retirement plans. The frozen 401(k) contributions alone resulted in excess of $100 million in savings for the university in 2020, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article256465056.html#storylink=cpy
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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

2021 TV Ratings CCG Weekend and attendance #s

 ACC FCG TV Viewers 2012-21

Here are the viewership numbers for the last 10 ACC Championship Games:

YearAtlanticCoastalViewers(M)
2012#13 Florida StGa Tech*1.97====
2013#1 Florida St#20 Duke5.7============
2014#2 Florida St#12 Ga Tech10.1====================
2015#1 Clemson#8 N Carolina7.9================
2016#3 Clemson#19 Va Tech5.34==========
2017#1 Clemson#7 Miami5.43===========
2018#2 ClemsonPitt4.24========
2019#3 Clemson#22 Virginia3.97========
2020#3 Clemson#2 Notre Dame10.18====================
2021#15 Pitt#16 Wake Forest2.66=====


TV Ratings CCG Weekend

TV Ratings CCG Weekend

1. Alabama-George 15.27M
2. Michigan-Iowa 11.65M
3. Baylor-Ok State 8.03M
4. Oregon- Utah 4.24M
5. Cincinnati-Houston 3.4M
6. Pittsburgh-Wake Forest 2.66M
7. Kent State-NIU 867,000
8. Utah State-San Diego State 816,000
9. Appy State-Louisiana 440,000

https://t.co/UBnFKE7O1b

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2021/12/2021-ccg-tv-ratings.html

A Cincinnati Bearcats fan on CSNBBS who goes by "CliftonAve" put together a list of TV viewership numbers for all of the FBS conference championships (except C-USA, because their number wasn't reported). I added the bar graph...

TV Ratings CCG Weekend
1.SEC: Alabama-Georgia15.27M===============
2.B1G: Michigan-Iowa11.65M============
3.XII: Baylor-Oklahoma St8.03M========
4.Pac: Oregon-Utah4.24M====
5.AAC: Cincinnati-Houston3.4M===
6.ACC: Pitt-Wake Forest2.66M===
7.MAC: Kent St-NIU0.867M=
8.MWC: Utah St-San Diego St0.816M=
9.SBC: App.State-Louisiana0.440M|

No data available for C-USA (on CBSSN)


Great info from https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/

As I have always stated, the ACC misses the boat consistently that FSU is THE TV ratings draw for the ACC.

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/12/acc-cg-tv-viewership-2012-19.html

Here are the TV ratings for this year's FBS conference championship games:

SEC- 13.7- Million 12/7, 4 pm CBS
B1G- 13.55 Million 12/7, 8 pm FOX
XII- 8.7 Million 12/7, Noon ABC
Pac- 5.86 Million 12/6, 8 pm ABC
ACC- 3.97 Million 12/7, 7:30 pm ABC
AAC- 2.88 Million 12/7, 3:30 pm ABC
SBC- 726K 12/7, Noon ESPN
MWC- 550K 12/7, 4 pm ESPN
MAC- 358K 12/7, Noon ESPN2


The ACC CG fell all the way to 5th, nearly 2 million viewers below the Pac-12. Totally unacceptable! What gives, ACC? Well, this is the culmination of a downward trend which began in 2015 (perhaps not coincidentally when Clemson took over the Atlantic division from Florida State?)

Here are the viewership numbers for the last 8 ACC Championship Games:

YearAtlanticCoastalViewers(M)
2012#13 Florida StGa Tech*1.97====
2013#1 Florida St#20 Duke5.7============
2014#2 Florida St#12 Ga Tech10.1====================
2015#1 Clemson#8 N Carolina7.9================
2016#3 Clemson#19 Va Tech5.34==========
2017#1 Clemson#7 Miami5.43===========
2018#2 ClemsonPitt4.24========
2019#3 Clemson#22 Virginia3.97========



2020 ACC Championship Game Tops Record Books as Most-Viewed ACC Championship of All Time, Averaging 10,180,000 Viewers

The 2020 ACC Championship Game between then-No. 2 Notre Dame and then-No. 3 Clemson was one for the record books, as the rematch between the Fighting Irish and Tigers registered 10,180,000 viewers across all TV and streaming platforms to rank as the most-viewed conference championship game this weekend and the most-viewed ACC Championship of all time.

Excluding additional streaming on the ESPN App, the ACC Championship Game averaged 9,919,000 viewers on ABC, up 149 percent year-over-year. Saturday’s ACC Championship marks the first time since 2007 that ABC aired the most-viewed conference championship game across all networks.

Saturday’s ACC Championship audience peaked with 11,646,000 viewers from 5:15 – 5:30 p.m. ET, as Clemson scored in the closing seconds of the first half to take a 24-3 lead heading into halftime. Saturday’s conference championship game was nearly flat from the teams’ regular season meeting, a 2OT thriller in November, and ranks as the second-most viewed college football game of the season.


ACC Title Game Attendance

21 - Pitt/WF 58K
19 - CU/UVa 66K
18 - CU/Pitt 67K
17 - CU/Miami 74K
16 - CU/UVa 51K
15 - FSU/GT 65K
14 - FSU/Duke 68K
13 - FSU/GT 65K
13 - VT/CU 74K
12 - VT/FSU 72K

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

FSU wins 2021 Women's Soccer National Title

 




FSU has the most titles in the last 10 years at 3, tied for most College Cup appearances since 2000 with UNC at 12, and played for the 2nd most titles since 2000, UNC 9 to FSU 6

Every FSU player signed since 2000 until the 2021 National Title, that has stayed four years has gone to the College Cup.

Schools with National Championships in last 10 years:

3 - FSU
2 - Stanford
1 - Notre Dame
1 - Southern Cal
1 - Penn State
1 - Santa Clara
1 - UCLA
0 - North Carolina

Schools with multiple College Cup appearances in last 10 years:

7 - FSU
5 - North Carolina
5 - Stanford
3 - UCLA
3 - Virginia
2 - Rutgers
2 - Penn State
2 - Santa Clara
2 - Duke
2 - Georgetown

Schools with multiple College Cup appearances in last 20 years:

12 - FSU
10 - North Carolina
10 - UCLA
9 - Stanford
6 - Notre Dame
4 - Penn State
4 - Santa Clara
3 - Virginia
3 - Duke
2 - Rutgers
2 - Southern Cal
2 - Portland
2 - Georgetown
0 - Florida

Not a typo, while we've been to 12 College Cups the last 20 years


Nobody has more NCs, NC game appearances, or College Cup appearances than FSU since 2010!!! Tied with Standford with 3 titles but have them on Cup appearances and title game appearances.


All Time women's Soccer Titles

21 UNC
3 FSU
3 Notre Dame
3 Stanford

FSU Women’s Soccer team has been to 5 National Championship games in the last 8 years. They have won 3 of those Title games.

Since 2000
College Cup Appearances - UNC 12, FSU 12 --- next closest is Stanford with 9
Championship Game Appearances - UNC 9, FSU 6 --- next closest is Stanford with 5
Championships Won - UNC 6, FSU, ND, Stanford 3 --- next closest is Santa Clara, USC, Portland with 2
FSU joins UNC as only the 2nd school to win 3 titles in an 8 year period. Next closest is Stanford with 3 in 9 years.

Year-by-Year National Champions

2021: Florida State 

2020: Santa Clara

2019: Stanford

2018: Florida State

2017: Stanford

2016: Southern California

2015: Penn State

2014: Florida State

2013: UCLA

2012: North Carolina

2011: Stanford

2010: Notre Dame

2009: North Carolina

2008: North Carolina

2007: Southern California

2006: North Carolina

2005: Portland

2004: Notre Dame

2003: North Carolina

2002: Portland

2001: Santa Clara

2000: North Carolina

1999: North Carolina

1998: Florida

1997: North Carolina

1996: North Carolina

1995: Notre Dame

1994: North Carolina

1993: North Carolina

1992: North Carolina

1991: North Carolina

1990: North Carolina

1989: North Carolina

1988: North Carolina

1987: North Carolina

1986: North Carolina

1985: George Mason

1984: North Carolina

1983: North Carolina

1982: North Carolina







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Monday, December 6, 2021

2014-Meet the Big-Money Boosters Behind College Football’s Top 25 Teams

Old Article, but of note 

Meet the Big-Money Boosters Behind College Football’s Top 25 Teams


1. Florida State: Al Dunlap
Known as “Chainsaw Al,” the 77-year-old Dunlap became infamous in the business world as a ruthless corporate downsizer while CEO of companies like Scott Paper. He’s been successfully sued by everyone from the Securities and Exchange Commission to his own shareholders over accounting fraud, and once physically attacked a critic. Dunlap retired in Ocala, Florida, and he and his wife have given $15 million to Seminole athletic facilities. (Dunlap, a West Point grad, never attended FSU.)



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Saturday, December 4, 2021

FSU President goals

 

FSU president points to surge in faculty hiring, moves to double research grants


“One of the reasons that grant money and research money is so important to the community is that these dollars circulate directly into the community if we build a strong research program at Florida State University,” McCullough said. “We will continue to pump money into the region in ways that you may not know about.”

The FSU president started with acknowledging FSU’s rank as one of the Top 20 public research universities in the nation. His goal is for FSU to achieve membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, a group of 66 universities that have advanced research programs. 

McCullough says their research programs, like the High Magnetic Field Laboratory housing the world’s most powerful magnets, has brought a tremendous amount of funding already. Last year, FSU received more than $275 million from federal, state, and other sources.

But, McCullough said that is nowhere near enough.

“We ought to be $500 million, not $275 million,” McCullough told the gathering at the University Center Club at Doak Campbell Stadium. “If you look at Ohio State University, they bring in $684 million in research. The University of Pittsburgh, $850 million in research. So, we ought to be at $500 million.”


A reason for this, he says, is the lack of faculty. The number of students at the university continues to increase, but the amount of faculty lags. McCollough has begun to rectify this issue by authorizing 150 new faculty searches, the “largest number that we've ever had.” He believes this will further help his goal of bringing more research dollars to campus.

Fostering entrepreneurship in students and faculty

His other goal is building on FSU's strong success in promoting entrepreneurship. In 2015, FSU received $100 million from Jan Moran and the Jim Moran Foundation to create the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. Now in its fifth year, it was ranked No. 1 in Florida, and No. 19 in the nation in terms of education and entrepreneurship by the Princeton Review.

He proudly told attendees that FSU won the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities 2021 Degree Completion award a couple of weeks ago. The award is recognized as one of the most prominent student success awards in the country. He also said there has been a 75% increase in applications this year and that the school has no equity gaps.
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