Sunday, November 30, 2014

ACC 4 SEC 0

Great job ACC.

No remember next time TV negotiations are happening, the network you signed with, ESPN, hardly mentioned the ACC's record against the SEC and when they did, did all they could to trivialize it (ACC vs SEC EAST).

Great weekend, ACC, but unless onfield performance is matched with business savy, you will continue to be rip in the public arena. In this case, your own network won't give you credit.

FSU-UF draws in the viewers

FSU-UF draws in the viewers

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Florida-FSU posted a 4.1 overnight rating, ESPN’s 2nd highest regular-season game in the mid-afternoon window (since USC-Ga in 2013).

Saturday, November 29, 2014

EmbraceTheHate

Friday, November 28, 2014

Florida State, Alabama record monster TV ratings: Two combine for 6 most-watched games this season

Someday these facts will equal FSU having a say in the ACC......OK, it won't, but just shows where FSU should stand in this conference.

Florida State, Alabama record monster TV ratings: Two combine for 6 most-watched games this season

"The duo is at the top of the college football world.
Alabama is currently ranked No. 1 in the College Football Playoff committee's rankings, while Florida State is the lone unbeaten in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The pair - which has combined to win four of the last five national championships - can draw a television audience, too.
Through the first 13 weeks of the college football season, the six highest-rated games feature either Florida State or Alabama, based on ratings from Sports Media Watch.
The Seminoles' 31-27 win over Notre Dame is the highest-rated game of the 2014 season. The then-top-5 matchup drew 13.2 millions viewers and a 7.9 rating.
The game's 8.5 overnight rating of major markets is the fourth-highest in ABC's Saturday-night package, which is in its ninth year, according to Sports Media Watch.
Alabama's 25-20 victory over Mississippi State, which was a top-3 showdown, is the second-highest rated game of the season. The interdivisional matchup had an audience of 10.27 million, and a 6.4 rating.
The Alabama-LSU (5.3 rating, 9.11 million viewers), Florida State-Miami (5.3 rating, 8.74 million viewers), Alabama-Florida (5.1 rating, 7.95 million viewers) and Florida State-Clemson (4.5 rating, 7.34 million viewers) games round out the six highest-rated games of the 2014 season.
With the start of the inaugural College Football Playoffs, CBSsports.com reports that regular-season TV ratings have not been impacted by the new post-season format.
In all, Jimbo Fisher's team has played in six games that are among the 25 most-watched this season, while Nick Saban's team has been a part of five.
With ESPN's College GameDay in Tuscaloosa for Saturday's Iron Bowl, the Crimson Tide and Seminoles have each had the popular pre-game show travel to three of their games this season, which leads the nation.
Below, you can see a full list of the top 25 highest-rated games so far this year.

TOP 25 HIGHEST-RATED GAMES DURING 2014 SEASON

Game	Rating	Viewers	Network
Florida State-Notre Dame	7.9	13.2M	ABC
Alabama-Mississippi State	6.4	10.27M	CBS
Alabama-LSU	5.3	9.11M	CBS
Florida State-Miami	5.3	8.74M	ABC
Alabama-Florida	5.1	7.95M	CBS
Florida State-Clemson	4.5	7.34M	ABC
Auburn-Texas A&M	4.4	7.21M	CBS
Georgia-South Carolina	4.1	6.77M	CBS
USC-Stanford	4.1	6.54M	ABC
Alabama-West Virginia	4.0	6.40M	ABC
Ohio State-Michigan State	3.9	6.83M	ABC
Florida State-Oklahoma State	3.8	6.03M	ABC
Mississippi State-Auburn	3.8	6.00M	CBS
Ohio State-Minnesota	3.7	5.73M	ABC
Georgia-Florida	3.7	5.71M	CBS
Alabama-Ole Miss	3.7	5.92M	CBS
Florida State-N.C. State	3.5	5.49M	ABC
Oregon-Michigan State	3.5	5.98M	FOX
Auburn-Ole Miss	3.4	5.80M	ESPN
Florida State-Louisville	3.1	4.97M	ESPN
Mississippi State-Kentucky	3.1	5.00M	CBS
Georgia-Tennessee	3.1	4.72M	ESPN
Arizona State-Notre Dame	3.0	4.67M	ABC
Ole Miss-LSU	3.0	4.95M	ESPN
Ohio State-Penn State	2.9	4.67M	ABC

UVA 2012: How we stack up

Great info.

UVA 2012: How we stack up

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

ACC School Revenues

ACC School Revenues

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx
"Here are the figures for all the Acc full members:
Louisville's figures are pretty good considering they are missing at least 10 million from not being in the Acc in 2013:

FSU $104,420,339

Louisville $89,428,348

Syracuse $87,647,822

Virginia $80,983,121

UNC $79,845,782

Duke $79,499,503

Clemson $73,791,753

VT $73,015,503

Miami $71,785,978

NC State $70,500,811

Pitt $66,089,664

BC $65,229,918

Wake $56,247,495

GT $55,526,101"

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"What doesn't always show on that site is the amount of money the University transfers into their athletic program for annual expenditures. What's reported on that site is almost always a gross revenue total that has entered the athletic department, it looks like "revenue" but revenue transferred in from the university's general fund is not real revenue.

To give an example http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/s.../finances/

USA today attempted to show that for most schools back in 2012. Back then their numbers detailed internal transfers from the University into athletics of:

MD $15 million
UVa $13 million
Louis $11 million
UNC $ 9 million
VT $ 8 million
FSU $7.5 million
GT $ 7 million
NCSU $6 million
Clemson $ 3.5 million

They omitted numbers for Duke, Wake, Miami, etc.

To get a real "net" revenue number, you have to back out discretionary internal university donations. Then the game becomes how it's shown from an accounting standpoint.

Sometimes that money is a student fee, sometimes it's a student charge for tickets, sometimes it's just a donation

If you look at the US Department of Ed site under the "Not Allocated" revenue line, you will find some of that internal transfer, but not necessarily all - it depends on the schools internal accounting practices.

To give an example in NC:

WF's Not Allocated line is $16 million
Duke's NA line is $3 million
State's NA line is $9 million
UNC's NA line is $15 million

You really do need an audit to determine how much real money is made versus how much loss is paper over and how much revenue is hidden elsewhere.

Historically NC State as a university, has not directly supported it's athletics, for many years the University "donation" to sports has been in the $2 million range. Carolina has always provided much more support to it's programs, and Duke has bled off revenues from basketball into a direct contribution what is the defacto Duke general fund. UVa pumps a lot of money into it's programs, but UVa can afford to do that with a $4 billion endowment. You can see why MD was going broke with the huge internal transfer, but MD needed cut sports and raise more money from the time Len Bias died and Lefty was fired, 25 years ago but they didn't do anything for decades and for years they were bailed out by the MD transfer support.

I may be totally wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that Louisville showed all revenue coming through the YUM center as a revenue for the sports program, which is different from being a tenant in an arena or having a smaller venue that has less revenue and less operating costs. "

The Ultimate ESPN "We swear we don't have any bias against FSU" Starter Pack

LuvDemNoles ‏@LuvDemNoles22

The Ultimate ESPN "We swear we don't have any bias against FSU" Starter Pack pic.twitter.com/kzTJa2Lml3

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Florida State earns rare ratings win for ABC

"ABC's regional coverage of Florida State-Boston College and Iowa-Wisconsin earned the network a rare win in last week's college football ratings race.
The network's 3:30 p.m. Eastern slot earned a 3.6 overnight share, and ABC also finished second with its broadcast of UCLA-USC later Saturday night. The Bruins and Trojans drew a 3.3 rating, and NBC came in third with the Notre Dame-Louisville matchup drawing a 2.2 rating.
ESPN finished fourth on the week with is noon broadcast of Minnesota-Nebraska (2.0), and the SEC on CBS - which had won eight of 10 weeks prior to last weekend - finished fifth (1.9) with its broadcast of Arkansas and Ole Miss. It marks the first time Notre Dame on NBC defeated the SEC on CBS in the ratings since September 2013 according to SportsMediaWatch.com.
FOX once again lagged behind the other networks, finishing seventh with a 1.4 rating for the Oklahoma State-Baylor matchup.
Top-rated college football games from Week 13
1. Regional coverage (FSU-BC & Wis.-Iowa), ABC, 3.6 rating
2. UCLA-USC, ABC, 3.3
3. Louisville-Notre Dame, NBC, 2.2
4. Minnesota-Nebraska, ESPN, 2.0
5. Arkansas-Ole Miss, CBS, 1.9
6. Missouri-Tennessee, ESPN, 1.8
7. Baylor-Oklahoma State, FOX, 1.4
8. Utah-Arizona, ESPN, 0.87
9. Illinois-Penn State, ESPN2, 0.71
10t. Oklahoma-Kansas, Fox Sports 1, 0.53
10t. Stanford-California, Fox Sports 1, 0.53
12. Harvard-Yale, NBC Sports Network, 0.29
(Overnight ratings from showbuzzdaily.com)

Negative ESPN articles attaching Winston's photo to the story, even when he isn't involved.

DevinFSU ‏@DevinFSU

This is like the 4th time. No accident RT @bryanDeeds: Not even trying to hide it anymore pic.twitter.com/JsKpY9PpMX

Monday, November 24, 2014

BOG study: $1 billion for separate engineering schools at FSU, FAMU

BOG study: $1 billion for separate engineering schools at FSU, FAMU

"A new study performed for the State University System’s Board of Governors estimates that the price tag could be as high as $1 billion for uncoupling the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and creating separate, top-notch programs at each university.
BOG is expected to consider the report’s findings at its January meeting, and the 17-member, governor-appointed board is scheduled to provide a recommendation to the Legislature by March.
There are no inexpensive options. The report notes that the joint college, created by lawmakers in 1982, is not functioning well and will require major investments if BOG wants to maintain the partnership between one of the state’s two preeminent universities and the only public historically black college in Florida.
BOG and the Legislature will also have to contend with federal legislation that could be a factor as they contemplate separating the college. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, along with the Fordyce decision in the Supreme Court, appear to dictate that an uncoupling would be a direct violation of separate-but-equal education systems.
The draft report, submitted last week by California-based Braintrust Consulting, has been delivered to BOG and both universities for their review and feedback. A final report is due Dec. 10.
Braintrust Consulting does not offer recommendations regarding the joint college, which the Legislature considered splitting earlier this year before it opted to provide BOG with $500,000 to have the college’s operations thoroughly vetted.
FSU administrators welcomed the proposal in April by Sen. John Thrasher — now FSU’s president — to divide the joint college into two separate engineering programs. FAMU, on the other hand, is adamantly opposed to a split. FAMU President Elmira Mangum said in April that FAMU on its own is unable to sustain an engineering program “financially or academically.”
While the Legislature prepared in April to debate the merits of splitting the college, FAMU administrators provided an estimate that they would need $100 million to construct an engineering building on the FAMU campus, with $15 million annually required to cover salaries and other operating costs.
The consulting firm’s report echoes an analysis by the Tallahassee Democrat that appeared in the April 22 edition of the newspaper. The two universities have distinctly different missions. FSU, with more resources, has been more committed to building the faculty at the college; almost one-third of the college’s faculty are on a separate FSU budget line and not the joint college’s budget. In 2013, based on BOG data, FSU awarded 267 degrees to students in the college while only 34 FAMU students earned degrees.
FSU administrators have said that in order to advance into the elite rankings of public universities, it is imperative FSU have a separate engineering program."

List of college football teams by weekly appearances atop AP Poll

Miami hasn't been No. 1 in 12 years.

It's been 33 years since Clemson was ranked No. 1.

Auburn has been ranked No. 1 for only 9 weeks...ever.

FSU just passed Bama

FSU has spent more time at #1 then the 12 other SEC schools combined (other than Alabama and UF).

FSU's first #1 rank came in 1988....compare that to other first appearances.

List of college football teams by weekly appearances atop AP Poll

This is a list of college football teams by the number of weeks they have been ranked number one in the AP Poll since its inception in 1936 through the latest poll.^[1]

Rank	Team	Weeks	First Appearance	Most Recent Appearance
1	Oklahoma	101	1950	2011
2	Notre Dame	98	1938	2012
3	Ohio State	94	1942	2010
4	USC	91	1939	2012
5	Florida State	72	1988	2014
6	Alabama	71	1961	2013
7	Nebraska	70	1965	2000
8	Miami	68	1983	2002
9	Texas	45	1941	2008
10	Florida	41	1985	2009

Sunday, November 23, 2014

ESPN College Football Metrics

Shooting victim news and donation link to help him.

Please donate to fellow Nole and shooting victim.

Ariya Massoudi ‏@AriyaMassoudi 8 minutes ago
Tragic news as Farhan Ahmed, one of the victims of the Strozier shooting has been paralyzed from the waist down due to his injuries.

Stat of the day

Chuck Blunt ‏@cblunt58

Most 11+ win seasons all time:

OU 21

Bama 17

Penn St 15

FSU 14

USC 13

OSU 13

Neb 12

Marsh 12

UM 11

BYU 11

Pic of the day

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With friends like these.....

Renegade Osceola ‏@AMFKNole

This is why the ACC can't have nice things. RT @bcinterruption: Good luck and godspeed, @AlligatorArmy

Saturday, November 22, 2014

FSU & the media...

Somebody explain to me why the media has lost their minds when it comes to FSU? It doesn't make sense.

Rick J‏@RickJones64

.@nytimes writer was in Tally to cover Jimbo's coaches show. Now published 4 Tally bylined FSU FB stories, but 0 Tally bylines on shooting

Stat of the Day

Chuck Blunt ‏@cblunt58

kinda fitting, the '14 SRs can set a new FSU record for wins in a career tomorrow. '14 (45-6) is currently tied w/'99 (45-4) & '00 (45-5)

Friday, November 21, 2014

Gathering of Unity for FSU

Pic of the day

Thursday, November 20, 2014

#WeAreFSU

Florida State Univ. ‏@floridastate

#WeAreFSU

Florida State Univ. ‏@floridastate

#WeAreFSU pic.twitter.com/8wENDGk9BT

Media & FSU Shooting

Why has the world gone insane when it comes to FSU? It is like the twilight zone.

ESPN’s Marisa Martin Makes Jameis Winston Joke After Florida State Shooting

ESPN’s Marisa Martin Makes Jameis Winston Joke After Florida State Shooting

By Amber Lee on November 20, 2014 Unfiltered

In the early morning hours of Thursday a tragedy unfolded on the campus of Florida State. At this point much of the picture remains unclear, but what we do know is that at least two people were injured after a gunman opened fire in Tallahassee.

According to various reports, the two wounded were transported to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. That per ABC News, which was one of the first outlets to confirm the events, news of which first trickled out via Twitter.

Images via Instagram

While the full details of the shooting are not yet known, one thing that is known is that one ESPN employee made a very inappropriate joke on Twitter in the immediate aftermath.

Twitter screen capture via @SoftGlas

The person in question is Marisa Martin, who according to her LinkedIn page, is a reporter for ESPNU.

Martin first tweeted that the gunman was “heading for Jameis” [Winston], a reference to FSU’s Heisman winning quarterback Jameis Winston. Something that was done (obviously) in jest, but then defended the right to express her “opinion,” before disappearing from Twitter altogether.

But Martin’s retort about being “entitled to [her]opinions” really elevated the initial comment from joke to…statement of sorts.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Martin’s Alabama connections revealed on her Facebook account aren’t going to do much to dispel the notion that ESPN has an SEC bias.

Image via Facebook

Uh oh.
It feels like this is going to get out of hand…in a hurry.

Ethan Vaughan ‏@93warchant99

This is disgusting @nytimes . People have been shot and your article brings up the football team. pic.twitter.com/n8LJ41RsRW

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‏@John_P_Carvalho

I guess any article that mentions the @nytimes should talk Jayson Blair and clumsy leadership turmoil. pic.twitter.com/nbHOz1G3wc

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

But ESPN doesn't have an agenda against Jameis Winston

Just one more of many of these type examples.

It is nuts......silence from the ACC....no surprise, FSU is not even in a conference, sad joke.

FSU Gameday ‏@FlaStateGameday

But ESPN doesn't have an agenda against Jameis Winston...

FSU Gameday ‏@FlaStateGameday

But ESPN doesn't have an agenda against Jameis Winston... pic.twitter.com/bKgklH50T2