ACC not investing enough in football...

This is PATHETIC.  ACC is a dying conference....just another example of how this conference doesn't 'get it.'

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

"The full list of ACC head coach salaries, including outside pay but excluding potential bonuses, can be seen below. Syracuse, Wake Forest and Boston College have undisclosed salaries.

ACC Coaching Salaries (national rank in parentheses)
1 (14): Jimbo Fisher, Florida State - $3,591,667
2 (21): Dabo Swinney, Clemson - $3,175,100
3 (26): Bobby Petrino, Louisville - $3,000,000
4 (35): Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech - $2,660,913
5 (37): Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech - $2,590,500
6 (40): Mike London, Virginia - $2,303,599
7 (42): Al Golden, Miami - $2,250,943
8 (53): David Cutcliffe, Duke - $1,840,341
9 (54): Larry Fedora, North Carolina - $1,830,000
10 (57): Dave Doeren, N.C. State - $1,800,000
11 (59): Paul Chryst, Pittsburgh - $1,578,757
N/A: Scott Shafer, Syracuse
N/A: Steve Addazio, Boston College
N/A: Dave Clawson, Wake Forest "

Re: Explain the economics of UF's Athletic Budget??

Re: Explain the economics of UF's Athletic Budget??

Ben Jones

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Looking at UF's numbers here and a copy of FSU's financial statement that I have, it looks like the most significant difference for 2013 was booster contributions and conference payout.

UF lists booster contributions at $34 million, which is actually down a little bit from some previous years but is still far ahead of FSU.

UF also got about $21 million from the SEC for bowl game and television payouts. FSU got $19 million, which is a a pretty substantial increase from previous years (two years ago it was $12 million). That gap could be wider in coming years if the SEC Network explodes in popularity.

Disclaimer: I'm a writer, not a financial analyst. Sometimes I misread these things.

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"UF's budget has been $15-20 million more per year (combined with Boosters) than Florida State (combined with Boosters).

The press is inconsistent in how they report those numbers but the accounting is not inconsistent.

A good bit of the budget differential is attributable to season ticket sales demand. The Gators are generally sold out of football tickets so their requirement to buy tickets is much higher than at Florida State where demand for season tickets has always been softer.

The demand is very correlated to population. You have 10 million Floridians within 150 miles of Gainesville -- which is a comfortable distance for people to drive in and drive home the same day -- versus only about 1 million within 150 miles of Tallahassee. The demographics within that 150 mile radiuses are much higher around Gainesville then Tallahassee (household incomes higher in Orlando, Jax, Tampa than the Panhandle which has 7 of the poorest counties in Florida).

The Gators require a person to give $1500 or more to buy two seats in the stadium, some years as much as $3500, where we've had seats available with no donation requirement. The demand for season tickets has been such that FSU has asked only $300 for two seats along the sideline while Florida has been able to command $3500 or more.

That's a huge difference (typically $8-10 million annual revenue) in athletic revenue especially when you combine it with 10k or more season tickets sold ($3-5 million additional).

We lost so many season ticket holders in the late 2000s that we were unable to increase contribution requirements. Now that the economy has turned around and we've sold out we'll look to increase ticket priority requirements for the 2016 season in order to be able to provide our 20 teams with more annual operating budgets. I am just completing a study of what our published rates are compared to other SEC and ACC teams and we are way below the average. The good news is our actual contribution by section is much higher than what we require but still less than what other schools publish as their minimum requirement.

There's no doubt that distance, and hotel prices, hinder demand for season tickets and therefore ticket revenue and what we can raise for the athletics department in ticket priority requirements.

The recent success in our program has driven Booster membership significantly and our average donation has grown as well. We are now over 18,000 members and $18 milllion where last year we were $15 million (a record) and the year before we were somewhere in the $13 million range (also a record). Many of the SEC schools, and a few ACC schools, are in the $20 million range from 10k to 15k members. Our average donation is about $1000 per member where the ACC and SEC is around $2,000 per member.

I've shared time with my counterparts and know what they are able to do and not do. We collaborate. One area we are stronger is in number of donors who are NOT season ticket holders. Most all of their donors do it to get season tickets. They admire our ability to raise money from people who are not ticket holders. Some 30 percent of Seminole Boosters are giving philantrhopically and not tied to ticket buys where very few do at UF and other schools.

Same thing with club seats and skyboxes; supply and demand allows them to charge more. Proximity to population increases demand and therefore price and funding.

Yes, the SEC television contract is currenly providing more revenue per year than the ACC but that hasn't always been the case. It is a part of it however.

Someone on here posted that we get more bang for our buck than anyone and that is absolutely true. Look at our team's collective results in our 20 men's and women's teams and compare them to everyone else. The bang for the buck at Florida State is very high.

Jerry Kutz is Senior Vice President of Seminole Boosters and was the co-founder and columnist of the Osceola."

ACC country has failed

With friends like these......

Wayne McGahee III‏@WayneMcGaheeIII 13h13 hours ago

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ESPN Forgot That Florida State Plays In A ‘Power 5′ Conference

ESPN Forgot That Florida State Plays In A ‘Power 5′ Conference



"All year long, Florida State fans have felt that they’ve been getting a raw deal
from ESPN – for what they perceive to be SEC bias and anti-Seminoles coverage. Saturday’s tweet from @ESPNU is going to give them a little bit more ammo.
After Mississippi State lost to Alabama, whoever runs the account got a little ahead of themselves, claiming that there are now zero undefeated teams in “Power Five” conferences. Florida State, of course, plays in the ACC – which last time we checked, is one of them. They soon deleted the tweet and posted a “whoops” message in response."




Look out, #FSUTwitter has been on a roll lately.

FSU Miami TV ratings

ESPN PR ‏@ESPNPR 21m21 minutes ago

#FSU: 2 highest overnights for reg-ssn game on ESPN net since Nov. '12: Miami (6.1 rating) & ND (8.5 rating) pic.twitter.com/Zj7HR6hS93

             سكوت retweeted

Madison Behrens ‏@MadisonBehrens 13m13 minutes ago

#FSU averages 6.2 million views per game. That is unreal, the average NFL game pulls in roughly 3.1 if that helps you understand.

tvbythenumbers: Miami vs. Florida State Scores Big Win

"tvbythenumbers: Miami vs. Florida State Scores Big Win

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11...up/328192/

Total Viewers (million) 7.550

Heading into Saturday, only six other games this season had at least 6.2 million watching, and half of those games involved Alabama."

 

 

"FSU @ Miami peaked at 8.5 million viewers, while Texas @ OSU peaked at 2.2 million. Presented graphically, it looks even worse:

FSU @ UM 8.5 M
UT @ OSU 2.2 M

NOTE: Last week Alabama @ LSU had 9 M viewers, so this is about equal. Neither game touches the 13 M for Notre Dame @ FSU, though.

Still waiting for ESPN numbers for this weekend. "


TV Ratings Saturday: Florida State vs. Miami Scores Big Win, '48 Hours' Up

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Scoreboard	ABC	CBS	NBC	FOX
Adults 18-49: Rating/Share	2.5/9	0.7/2	0.7/2	0.6/2
Total Viewers (million)	7.550	4.289	3.908	2.044

ABC was number one with adults 18-49 and with total viewers.
Note: Due to the nature of live sports coverage, ratings for ABC & FOX  (College Football ) are preliminary and likely to change in the final ratings.
On ABC, College Football (Miami/Florida State) earned a preliminary 2.5, up 25 percent from last week's preliminary 2.0 adults 18-49 rating. 
On CBS, at 8PM  48 Hours scored a preliminary 0.7, up 17 percent from a 0.6 for its most recent 9PM telecast. A second episode of 48 Hours at 10PM notched a preliminary 0.9, up 29 percent from a 0.7 for its most recent 10pM episode.
On NBC, Dateline Saturday Night Mystery garnered a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating.
On FOX, College Football (Texas/Oklahoma State) garnered a preliminary 0.6 adults 18-49 rating, even with last week.
Broadcast primetime ratings for November 16, 2014 (All Live + Same Day Ratings):

Time	Net	Show	18-49 Rating/Sh	Total Viewers (millions)
8:00	ABC	College Football - Miami/ Florida State (8-11PM) - Live	2.5/9	7.55
	NBC	Dateline Saturday Mystery (8-10PM)	0.7/2	4.35
	CBS	48 Hours	0.7/3	3.80
	FOX	College Football - Texas/Oklahoma State (8-11PM) - Live	0.6/2	2.04
9:00	CBS	Criminal Minds - R	0.6/2	3.48
10:00	CBS	48 Hours	0.9/3	5.59
	NBC	Saturday Night Live - R	0.8/3	3.03

Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2014 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.--
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast."

Warchant.com ‏@Warchant 47m47 minutes ago

The #FSU-Miami game 6.1 overnight rating on Sat. night. 3rd highest this season (FSU-ND #1). http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2014/11/fsu-miami-tv-ratings-2014-abc-overnights-ohio-state-nebraska-melvin-gordon-college-football/ …

"
Two of the highest profile college football programs in the country lifted ABC to strong numbers on Saturday.
The Florida State/Miami game drew a 6.1 overnight rating on ABC Saturday night, up 74% from Stanford/USC last year (3.5), up 11% from Oregon/Stanford in 2012 (5.5), and the third-highest college football overnight of the season. Only Notre Dame/FSU in October (8.5) and Mississippi State/Alabama earlier in the day (6.6) drew better numbers.
In a year when the SEC has dominated the ratings, the defending champions out of the ACC have been a reliable draw. FSU games have accounted for two of the top three college football overnights this season and three of the top six.
Earlier in the day, the Noon ET Ohio State/Minnesota game drew a surprisingly strong 4.3 overnight. There was no comparable telecast on the network last year. The 4.3 is easily the highest overnight of the season for college football in the Noon window, topping the previous high of 3.1 for Tennessee/Georgia on ESPN in September.
Sandwiched between the marquee games was Nebraska/Wisconsin, which drew a 2.3 overnight — down a tick from last year (2.4) and down 28% from 2012 (3.2). The Badgers’ win, which featured a record performance by RB Melvin Gordon, was nearly tripled by Mississippi State/Alabama head-to-head."
 

ALWAYS trust the media

LostLettermen.com ‏@LostLettermen 2h2 hours ago

SI's OK St. story & NYT's FSU obsession keep raising question: What's a legitimate scandal and what's just muckraking?

Rick J ‏@RickJones64 2h2 hours ago

.@nytimes has written 14K words in A1 stories on #FSU football. NYT months-long Benghazi investigation, where 4 Americans died, was 8K words


Danny Kanell ‏@dannykanell 19h19 hours ago

Congrats @nytimes ... 6 months of digging and you've uncovered such incredibly henous acts such as BB gun fights and fender benders.


President John Trasher Says University is "Disturbed" By Latest "Speculative" New York Times Story

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Florida State President John Trasher issued a response to Friday’s New York Times report on the Tallahassee Police’s handling of an Oct. 5 car accident involving Seminoles defensive backs P. J. Williams and Ronald Darby. And to no one’s surprise, he’s not entirely enamored with the reporting.
In a letter to supporters, Trasher outlines his issues with the piece:
Dear Friends,
The university administration wants to convey to you its profound disappointment in a New York Times article posted Nov. 14 suggesting a cover-up in connection with an Oct. 5 car accident that involved FSU football players.
The evidence simply does not support the implications in the Times article.
The accident was worked by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD). FSU police responded to a routine request from TPD but did not participate in the accident investigation, make any arrests or advise any of the student-athletes involved.
FSU officials worked for several weeks to provide the New York Times reporter with all of the data and information he sought. Facts were gathered and interviews conducted by the university in response to his questions, and information was provided to him in good faith to meet his deadlines. There was no “shifting story” from FSU. When new information came to light, the university promptly clarified the record for the reporter.
We want to assure you that, as FSU Police Chief David Perry made clear to the reporter, the department’s officers acted entirely appropriately and followed department procedures. We are disturbed that a newspaper with a distinguished reputation would print such a speculative story. Four experienced law enforcement officers were on site and none saw any indication of the driver being under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The implication that anyone involved in the accident had anything to do with a burglary is totally unsupported and offensive. Finally, there is no indication of any special treatment of the student-athletes by the officers involved.
We will continue to monitor media coverage of this incident and respond appropriately, but we want you to know the university worked very hard to provide accurate information to the reporter and is disturbed by the result. When read carefully, it is clear the story contains no evidence to support any of the writer’s implications.
Sincerely,
President John Thrasher"
 

Florida cabinet approves land swap to benefit College of Business

Florida cabinet approves land swap to benefit College of Business

"The Florida Cabinet today approved a major land swap that will enable Florida State University to build a new home for its nationally ranked College of Business.
The swap — between the city of Tallahassee’s Community Redevelopment Agency and the state of Florida’s Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund — allows the state to receive a 5.34-acre parcel located on the south side of the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center and bordered by West Madison Street to the north and Gaines Street to the south.
In exchange for this property, the state will give up three nearby parcels totaling 5.74 acres and also pay $960,000 to the CRA. Once under state ownership, the 5.34-acre parcel, known as the “O’Connell property,” will be placed on the university’s master lease and become part of the campus.
“This land swap is an important step in our plans to move the College of Business further toward its goal of preeminence,” said President John Thrasher. “This new building, coupled with the outstanding instruction that our students already receive, will make a tremendous difference in accomplishing that goal. As the college’s reputation continues to grow, business graduates will take advantage of better, higher-paying job opportunities.”
Since acquiring the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center, Florida State has been actively planning the Arena District development, a large-scale, mixed-use development that includes academic, hospitality, athletics, conference and convention, retail and other uses. The addition of the Arena District will be the next major development initiative of the university and will complement the recent emergence of the “Madison Mile” and College Town, a district of shops, restaurants and student housing between the Civic Center and Doak Campbell Stadium. The acquisition of the O’Connell property is the latest piece of this redevelopment puzzle to be put into place.
The College of Business plans to construct a $75-million, 225,000-square-foot building on the site that will house all of its programs, including the Dedman School of Hospitality. The college will raise money for the building over the next two years and expects to break ground in the fall of 2016 and to move into the building in fall 2018.
“This new building is crucial to competing successfully with other top-tier business schools for world-class faculty and the best students,” said Caryn Beck-Dudley, dean of the College of Business. “The new building will give us the ability to greatly expand professional development, collaboration and networking opportunities for students, and better prepare them for the jobs of the future. This building is also our legacy to the next generation of students who expect and deserve a stellar education at Florida State.”
The College of Business enjoys national standing in several rankings.

• U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 edition of “America’s Best Colleges” ranks the college’s undergraduate programs at No. 40 among public universities and No. 62 in the nation among all programs, both public and private. What’s more, the undergraduate program in the Dr. William T. Hold/The National Alliance Program in Risk Management and Insurance ranks No. 5 among public universities and No. 6 among all institutions. The real estate program is ranked No. 9 among public schools and No. 12 among all universities.
• Business Insider ranks the college at No. 18 on a list of the top 25 business schools nationwide with the best value.
• Public Accounting Report’s 33^rd Annual Professors Survey-2014 ranks the college’s accounting program among the top 50 in the nation. The college earned the No. 43 spot in the report’s Top 50 Undergraduate Rankings and the No. 35 spot in its Top 50 Master’s Rankings."

FSU gets major boost in new business school project

"Cabinet approves CRA-FSU Land-swap

The Community Redevelopment Agency can begin entertaining ideas for development on two locations considered prime properties for retail and housing near Cascades Park, and Florida State University now has the leverage to ramp up fundraising efforts for its new College of Business following approval of a land swap Wednesday by the Florida Cabinet.

Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet approved without much discussion an agreement the CRA made in April to accept the Firestone Building and the nearby Bloxham Annex set of buildings on East Gaines Street from FSU in exchange for the city giving FSU a 5.3 acre wooded lot next to the Civic Center, known as the O’Connell site. The Firestone and Bloxham buildings are appraised at $4.85 million, while the vacant lot near the Civic Center is appraised at $5.8 million. FSU agreed to make up the difference with a $960,000 cash payment to the CRA.

The $960,000 payment will go back into the Frenchtown/Southside Community Redevelopment Trust Fund and made available for development improvements in those two districts.

FSU President John Thrasher said building a new College of Business on the property, which also includes the Dedman School of Hospitality, will be a “fantastic project for Florida State University.”

Thrasher, who is a graduate of the College of Business and its law school, noted the business program’s strong track record of placing graduates in jobs shortly after graduation. He said the new facility will bring “world-class entrepreneurial opportunities here in Florida.”

“We think the return on the investment will be very positive for our graduates,” he said.

Thrasher estimated the cost of the new school to be $75 million and said that fundraising is ongoing to secure that money since he hopes that private money will cover a major portion of the costs, with the rest coming from Public Education Capital Outlay, or PECO funds.

“We are anxious to get started on this project,” he said. He told Cabinet members that FSU plans to get the school built without including a major tuition increase.

The swap also is critical to FSU’s plan to redevelop the area around the Civic Center, which it also owns, into an arena district. FSU’s future plans include adding a hotel/convention center and some combination of retail and residential projects. It also would become a key element in the university’s vision to create an FSU-driven development connection between the Civic Center and Doak Campbell Stadium.

Thrasher said the new school construction is an important step in this development. “The first priority is to get the building built and then look at other (development) details,” he said after the Cabinet meeting.

Dennis Bailey, FSU’s senior associate vice president for facilities, said the College of Business would take up about half of the 5.3 acre property. He said the design work could be completed next year. In a separate release, FSU said it expects to break ground in the fall of 2016 and move to the new site in fall 2018.

“Now that we have the land, that makes it easier to request funds,” Bailey said. “I think the Arena District development will spawn off other developments.”

The city has been supportive of the land exchange as it looks to looks to ride the momentum generated by Cascades Park and nearby Gaines Street redevelopments. Interests have already been expressed by developers interested in retail and possible housing projects going in the area.

Mayor-Elect Andrew Gillum, who has been the city’s lead person in negotiations with FSU, said the CRA now will use a 60-day window to examine the possibilities for the Firestone and Bloxham properties and determine the best uses for future development.

Developers and others already have expressed interest in the site.

He said he could envision “some form of mixed-use market-rate housing, not student housing and probably some commercial and the potential for some other public use like a museum,” to be included in the development."