Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Schools with the most players selected over the past 5 NBA Drafts

 

 

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Most Valuable Programs

 


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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

FSU vs Louisville TV ratings

 










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Unusual FSU Factoid

 

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Marvin Jones display at College Football Hall of Fame

 




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2 FSU profs selected to Academy of Science

 


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Monday, September 12, 2022

Academic excellence fuels FSU’s recognition as Top 20 public university

 

Academic excellence fuels FSU’s recognition as Top 20 public university

Fueled by a steadfast commitment to student success and academic excellence, Florida State University continued its reign as a Top 20 national public university, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2022-2023” guidebook released Monday.

Florida State reaffirmed its No. 19 spot in the rankings, appearing in the Top 20 for the fourth consecutive year. The university also held steady at No. 55 among all national universities, both public and private, and ranked as the No. 8 Best Value College among public institutions.

“These rankings reflect total excellence across the university,” said President Richard McCullough. “We’re competing at the highest levels with the best universities in the world, and our goal is to continue to rise to the Top 15 and beyond.”

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Clark credited the perseverance and resilience of the campus community for continuing to strive for excellence despite the challenges of the past few years.

“Florida State University’s recognition as a Top 20 public university is a result of the unwavering commitment by our faculty, staff and students who have worked tirelessly to firmly establish us as one of the nation’s top institutions,” Clark said. “There are hundreds of people on our campus who work every day on particular types of issues and challenges in order to reach this kind of achievement.”

Florida State’s stellar graduation and freshman retention rates continue to power the university’s standing among the nation’s best. FSU placed No. 18 among publics in the metric, rising six spots from a year ago.

“These rankings reflect total excellence across the university. We’re competing at the highest levels with the best universities in the world, and our goal is to continue to rise to the Top 15 and beyond.”

— Richard McCullough, FSU President

The university also maintained its Top 20 ranking in graduation rate performance at No. 19 among public universities. This measure compares actual graduation rate and predicted rate, which U.S. News calculates based on the university’s resources and student profile.

“We’ve done a lot of great things when it comes to student success, and we’re continuing to invest a lot of resources in these areas,” McCullough said. “Our faculty and staff are dedicated to making sure every student who comes to Florida State has a chance to graduate, regardless of their background, and we’re very proud of that.”

FSU posted its highest-ever score in the peer assessment metric, which carries a weight of 20% in the U.S. News scoring methodology — evidence that the needle is moving in terms of the university’s national reputation.


 

“Our peers are realizing Florida State University is a place seriously on the move — wanting to move toward AAU membership, wanting to double our research expenditures — and striving for excellence and high levels of achievement,” Clark said. “As our national reputation increases in this positive way, prospective faculty take notice, students from around the country see this, and high school counselors put us on their list of great universities students should consider. All of this lends itself to allowing the world to see Florida State University for the amazing place it is.”

Florida State continued to shine in several key metrics considered in the publication’s methodology, including faculty resources, student selectivity and alumni giving. FSU climbed two spots to No. 4 among public universities in the faculty resources metric, which considers the percentage of full-time faculty, percentage of faculty with a terminal degree, class size, faculty salary and student-faculty ratio.

Notably, Florida State improved to No. 23 among publics in U.S. News’ graduate indebtedness ranking, which measures the average federal loan debt of graduates and the percentage of graduates who took out federal loans. The two-year average for graduate debt decreased $912 from the previous period, while the percentage of graduates who took out federal loans declined from 43% to 38%.

“Florida State University’s recognition as a Top 20 public university is a result of the unwavering commitment by our faculty, staff and students who have worked tirelessly to firmly establish us as one of the nation’s top institutions.”

— Jim Clark, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

U.S. News also recognized the university for providing a top-quality education at an affordable price, ranking FSU the No. 8 Best Value College in the nation among public universities and the highest among the state universities in Florida.

“People talk about affordability and access in higher education all the time, but we actually deliver,” McCullough said. “Our tuition is among the lowest in the nation, and we work really hard at the individual student level to provide scholarships rather than have students take loans.”

FSU is tied with the University of Maryland-College Park, the University of Washington and Rutgers University-New Brunswick on the list of top public institutions. In the rankings of all national universities, which includes private institutions, FSU shares the No. 55 spot with Pepperdine University, Santa Clara University and the University of Miami.

Also included in the U.S. News Best Colleges guidebook were undergraduate business and nursing program rankings, which were based solely on peer assessments.

The College of Business’ Dr. William T. Hold/The National Alliance Program in Risk Management and Insurance ranked No. 3 among all schools, and the real estate program maintained its No. 5 ranking among public schools. The college also earned a No. 20 ranking among public schools in marketing, while accounting moved up three spots to No. 21.

“We continue to place well in extremely competitive fields,” said Michael Hartline, dean of the College of Business. “We expect even greater achievements ahead and look forward to the heightened visibility our new showcase facility will provide.”

Next month, the College of Business breaks ground on Legacy Hall, its new $120 million home, which will be FSU’s largest academic space to date and part of the university’s developing southeast gateway to campus.

Florida State’s nursing undergraduate program soared 29 spots to No. 67 overall and 23 places to No. 48 among public universities, which may be attributed to the university’s investments in the program. The College of Nursing recently expanded its undergraduate enrollment to help meet the demand for highly trained nurses in Florida.














U.S. News & World Report ranks Florida State University in Top 20 for 4th consecutive year


With inclusion in the prestigious Association of American Universities as a goal, Florida State University continues a steady and dramatic march to be counted among the nation’s elite universities and colleges with a Top 20 ranking in U.S. News & World Reports “Best Colleges 2022 –2023" guidebook for public universities.

FSU remains locked in a tie at 19 with three other schools, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, and Rutgers; all AAU members, a collection of 63 research schools known for scholarship and innovation.

But FSU appears to be making moves to break the logjam.

In the latest rankings released Monday, the Seminoles showed significant improvement in scores for faculty resources, graduation and freshmen retention rates, over-all value, and peer recognition.

FSU is rated fourth in the nation for faculty, which includes pay, class size, and student to faculty ratio, up two spots from a year ago.

The Seminoles posted the nation’s 18th best freshmen retention rates, compared to last year’s ranking of 24.

And FSU is rated as the 8th Best Value College in the nation, the highest rank among the 10 state universities.


“We’re competing at the highest levels with the best universities in the world and our goal is to continue to rise to the Top 15 and beyond,” McCullough said in a statement.

U.S. News said it bases the rankings on factors that indicate academic quality. The annual survey is considered a leading benchmark of academic standing by colleges and universities.

FSU has made a steady and dramatic rise since a ranking of 43 in the 2016 guidebook – moving to 26 in 2018 and cracking the Top 20 in 2019.

The Preemince Program funnels an additional $62 million a year to FSU with some of the money diverted to improve graduation and retention rates.

A peer assessment survey seems to be the only subjective measure in the rankings. This year FSU posted its highest score ever, 3.3, on a scale of 1 to 5 (marginal to distinguished).

“Our peers are realizing Florida State University is a place seriously on the move, wanting to move toward AAU membership (membership is by invitation only), wanting to double our research expenditures, and striving for excellence and high levels of achievement,” said Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Clark in a prepared statement.

This year’s rankings also recognized FSU as the Number 8 Best Value College in America among public universities and the highest ranked among Florida’s 10 schools.




Among the nation’s public universities, U.S. News ranked FSU at No.23 for graduate debt, a measurement of the percentage of students who took out federal loans and the amount owed.

The two-year average at FSU dropped $912 and the percentage of graduates with debt fell from 43% to 38%.

“People talk about affordability and access in higher education all the time, but we actually deliver,” said McCullough. “Our tuition is among the lowest in the nation, and we work really hard at the individual student level to provide scholarships rather than have students take loans.”

Florida State University System and U.S. News & World Report 2022 –2023 Best Colleges rankings 

5. University of Florida
19. Florida State University
42. University of South Florida
64. University of Central Florida
72. Florida International University
103. Florida A&M University
132, Florida Atlantic University
132 University of North Florida
169 -227 Florida Gulf Coast University
NR Florida Polytechnical University






ACC:

Duke (10)
Notre Dame (18)
Virginia (25/3)
North Carolina (29/5)
Wake Forest (29)
Boston College (36)
Georgia Tech (44/15)
Florida State (55/19)
Miami (55)
Syracuse (62)
Pittsburgh (62/23)
Virginia Tech (62/23)
NC State (72/29)
Clemson (77/31)
Louisville (182/91)

SEC:
Vanderbilt (13)
Florida (29/5)
Texas (38/10)
Georgia (49/16)
Texas A&M (67/26)
Auburn (97/26)
South Carolina (115/53)
Tennessee (115/53)
Missouri (121/56)
Oklahoma (127/61)
Alabama (137/64)
Kentucky (137/64)
Mississippi (151/72)
LSU (176/87)
Arkansas (176/87)
Mississippi State (194/100)

Pac "10"
Stanford (3)
California Berkeley (20/1)
Washington (55/19)
Colorado (97/26)
Arizona (105/48)
Oregon (105/48)
Utah (105/48)
Arizona State (121/56)
Oregon State (151/72)
Washington State (212/107)

Big 12:
Baylor (77)
Brigham Young (89)
Texas Christian (89)
Kansas (121/56)
Iowa State (127/61)
Central Florida (137/64)
Cincinnati (151/72)
Kansas State (166/83)
Oklahoma State (182/91)
Houston (182/91)
Texas Tech (219/112)
West Virginia (234/118)

Big East:
Georgetown (22)
Villanova (51)
Connecticut (67/26)
Marquette (83)
Creighton (115)
DePaul (137)
Seton Hall (137)
St. John's (166)
Xavier (166)
Butler (Midwest #1)
Providence (North #1)


https://csnbbs.com/thread-955119-page-5.html

I was curious to see if USNWR rankings change much over time…so I compared 2010 versus current rankings.

Schools with the largest gains in rankings…
Florida State - 102 (2010) to 55 (now)
Florida - 47 to 29
Texas - 47 to 38
Other P5 schools with >10% improvement in rankings: Stanford, Vanderbilt, TCU, NC State, UCLA, Northwestern, Rutgers, Purdue, Georgia and Virginia Tech

Schools that are similarly ranked over time…
Duke - 10 to 10
Arizona State - 121 to 121
Other schools within 10% of their 2010 ranking: Notre Dame, Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan, Cal, USC, Baylor, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Arizona, UNC, Wake, Maryland, UVa, SCar, Illinois, BC, Syracuse, UK, Michigan State, Tennessee, TAMU, Miami and Auburn

Schools with the largest loss in rankings…
Washington State - 106 (2010) to 212 (now)
Penn State - 47 to 77
Nebraska - 96 to 151
Other schools with large losses in rankings: Iowa State, Alabama, Arkansas, Washington, Clemson, Kansas, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, BYU, Louisville and Pitt

USNWR is ranking more schools as “national universities” each year. Even with all the increased competition, most of the P5 schools are at least maintaining their rankings.




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National MagLab magnet recognized with R&D 100 award

 

National MagLab magnet recognized with R&D 100 award

Engineers and technicians from the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory were recognized with a 2022 R&D 100 Award for the design and construction of the 32 tesla (T) Superconducting Magnet. The R&D 100 recognizes revolutionary ideas in science and technology, and the 32T magnet is the world’s most powerful all-superconducting magnet.

“This award is a major accomplishment and positions this innovation in magnet technology at the highest echelon of achievement,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “We are incredibly proud of the scientists and engineers at the MagLab for their hard work and ingenuity in designing and building this extraordinary piece of technology that will really move us forward in our understanding of complex materials and quantum science.”

Often referred to as “The Oscars of Innovation,” the R&D 100 Awards is the only science and technology awards competition that recognizes new commercial products, technologies and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license. Presented by R&D World magazine, the R&D 100 Awards program identifies and celebrates the top 100 revolutionary technologies of the past year.

The 32T all-superconducting magnet is the first of its kind and was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research and the State of Florida. The magnet is composed of an outer set of traditional commercial low-temperature superconducting coils and a novel set of inner coils made from a high-temperature superconductor consisting of a combination of yttrium, barium, copper and oxygen. MagLab scientists, engineers, technicians and other staff worked to develop entirely new techniques for insulating, reinforcing and de-energizing the novel inner coils. These techniques were essential because of the unique and complex electromagnetic and mechanical aspects of this new material.

“The 32T superconducting magnet was built after many years of materials development, and NSF is proud to see the fruits of one its high-risk high-reward investments in research infrastructure being recognized as one the major R&D projects in the country,” said Sean Jones, who leads the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, which funds and oversees the MagLab. “The achievement shows U.S. leadership in high-field magnet science and technology and represents a major milestone for democratizing access to high-magnetic fields essential for U.S. advances in quantum information science and engineering, the environment, and health research.”

After eight years of hard work, the 32T magnet reached full field in 2017, yielding a 36% increase in a single year and overtaking a record field that held for 50 years. The magnet was moved, modified, tested and commissioned before being opened in 2021, allowing researchers from around the world to conduct experiments to understand the physics of complex quantum materials.

“This magnet represents the hard work of many people at the lab and is a major accomplishment in magnet technology that provided a huge leap forward in the superconducting magnetic field available to researchers,” said MagLab Director Greg Boebinger. “Its performance marks the launch of a revolution in superconducting research magnets for high-field, low-temperature physics and chemistry and is an indicator of still higher fields to come with continued improvements in high-temperature superconducting materials and magnet technologies.”

Building off the lab’s demonstrated success of the 32T magnet, the NSF in October 2021 announced a new $15.8 million grant for a detailed design of a 40T all-superconducting magnet. Dozens of researchers within the lab’s Magnet Science and Technology department and Applied Superconductivity Center are now bringing their unique expertise in materials research, magnet design and technology development to this new project.

The 2022 R&D award winners were selected by 50 industry professionals from across the world; winners will be honored in November at a black-tie gala in San Diego.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

FSU/LSU Draws 7.6 Million viewers

 








http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/2022/09/sunday-tv-ratings-9422-big-brother.html


Time

Show

18-49 Rating/Share

Viewers (mil)

Network

7 PMThe Conners (R)
0.52.60ABC

60 Minutes (R)0.34.84CBS

Password (R)0.21.81NBC

MLS Soccer0.10.34Fox
7:30 PMCollege Football: FL St v. LSU1.66.34ABC
8 PMBig Brother0.53.13CBS

Password (R)0.22.10NBC

World's Funniest Animals (R)0.10.56The CW

PBC Boxing0.10.37Fox
8:30 PMWorld's Funniest Animals (R)0.10.61The CW
9 PMThe Equalizer (R)0.22.03CBS

America's Got Talent (R)0.21.59NBC

Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)0.10.45The CW

Bob's Burgers (R)0.10.44Fox
9:30 PMFamily Guy (R)0.20.54Fox
10 PMNCIS: Los Angeles (R)0.21.79CBS


Florida State College Football Victory Over LSU Ignites ABC Read more:

Sunday, September 4, 2022 Total Viewers:  ABC: 5.87 million, CBS: 2.95, NBC: 1.77, CW: 526,000 Fox: 398,000 Adults 18-49: ABC: 1.4 rating/15 share, CBS: 0.3/ 2, NBC: 0.2/ 2, Fox and CW: 0.1/ 1 each ABC: College Football (Ohio State Buckeyes 21, Fighting Irish 10) Fox: Baseball Night in America  Original Programming   ABC 7:00 p.m. NCAA College Basketball (Florida State 24, LSU 23) Viewers: 1.06 million (#3); Adults 18-49: 0.1 rating/1 share (#3) CBS 8:00 p.m. “Big Brother” Viewers: 3.13 million (#2); Adults 18-49: 0.5/ 5 (#2) Fox 7:00 p.m. Soccer Viewers: 336,000 (#4); Adults 18-49: 0.1/ 1 (#4) 8:00 p.m. Boxing Viewers: 584,000 (#4); Adults 18-49: 0.1/ 1 (#4t)


Read more: https://programminginsider.com/sunday-ratings-florida-state-college-football-victory-over-lsu-ignites-abc/






https://tvline.com/2022/09/05/tv-ratings-big-brother-24-vs-college-football/

In the latest TV ratings, ABC’s Labor Day Eve broadcast of the Florida State-LSU collegiate football match averaged 5.9 million total viewers and a 1.5 demo rating, dominating Sunday night in both measures.
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Children’s Miracle Network presented a check for more than $700,000 to the FSU College of Medicine

 


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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

The ACC is making more money than ever. So why is the league's future so uncertain?

 

The ACC is making more money than ever. So why is the league's future so uncertain?


The Atlantic Coast Conference set records in 2020 in revenue generation and distribution to its member institutions, indicators that are nearly as important as wins and losses in college athletics these days.

But it wasn’t enough to keep the Greensboro-based league from falling further behind two other major college athletic conferences in those key financial metrics—a revenue gap that is likely to grow significantly in coming years and threaten the future of the ACC, a conference as much a part of the fabric of North Carolina as Cheerwine and pulled pork.

The athletic conferences are nonprofit entities and file tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service that spell out their revenues and expenses, including distributions to member institutions. WRAL News analyzed two decades of tax records filed by the top five NCAA conferences, a period of enormous financial growth, movement of schools and increasing budgets, financed in large part due to skyrocketing television rights fees.

The financial and power chasm between the top two conferences and everyone else poses big questions and foretells big changes for college athletes, fans and academic institutions.

The ACC brought in about $84 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, distributing almost $8 million to each of its then-nine league members. Twenty years later, the league reported making $578.3 million in revenue during the 2020-21 fiscal year and distributed an average of $36.1 million to its 15 members, which included Notre Dame as a full member during the pandemic football season of 2020.

Two of its competitors, however, have grown even quicker.

The Southeastern Conference, with football powerhouses such as Alabama, Georgia and Florida, generated $833.3 million and distributed an average of $54.6 million to its 14 members in the 2020-21 fiscal year, the last year for which financial data is available.

The Big Ten, with football stalwarts Ohio State and Michigan and huge numbers of alumni from large Midwestern state schools, generated $679.8 million and distributed an average of $48.7 million to its 14 members in the 2020-21 fiscal year, even as the conference played an abbreviated football schedule.

The differences in those annual payouts, starting small and growing larger each year, is the revenue gap. About 37% of athletic department revenue across the FBS comes from conference distributions. The ACC is at 36%, but the Big Ten is at 50% and the SEC is at 61%, according to 2021 data from the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Donor contributions make up 28% of ACC athletic department revenue.

The money is seen as critical for long-term financial health of the conferences, a key to stabilizing membership and keeping the most successful schools in the league. As the gap widens, at a minimum, it could mean better facilities, more recruiting muscle and more national exposure for the universities across their athletics programs. At a maximum, it could create a class of schools with huge influence over the future of college athletics.

And the chasm is only going to get bigger due to changes in membership: the SEC is adding powers Oklahoma and Texas from the Big 12 by 2025, and the Big Ten is expanding to California with the additions of USC and UCLA by 2024. Each league will have 16 members and, in the Big Ten’s case, television rights deals that could exceed $1 billion annually.

The moves, particularly the Los Angeles schools’ departure for the Big Ten announced this summer, set off a flurry of speculation about further consolidation involving marquee ACC teams and pushed the league’s revenue gap to the forefront.

“It’s economically impossible to address it,” said Karl Benson, who served as commissioner of the Mid-American, Western Athletic and Sun Belt conferences between 1990 and 2019. “When conferences don’t meet membership expectations, you get movement. What causes USC or UCLA or what causes Texas and Oklahoma to leave? When they recognize it ain’t going to get any better.”

The ACC is locked into its current rights agreement with ESPN until 2036 and, barring an unlikely move from Notre Dame to join the league in football, it lacks a clear addition to significantly alter its position.

It’s left the ACC member schools to ponder: Will it get any better?

“At the end of the day, it comes down to ratings and viewership,” said Tag Garson, senior vice president of properties at Wasserman and former programming director at ABC Sports and ESPN.

But each year moves the ACC closer to the end of its grant of rights agreement and each year may bring a larger revenue gap, changing the calculus for schools.

Several ACC schools could be coveted by the SEC or Big Ten, including Notre Dame, North Carolina, Florida State and Clemson. Other schools may be of interest to one or the other for different reasons. Some schools, perhaps more than half of the league, could end up remaining in a diminished ACC. The schools that help drive the revenue could push for unequal revenue distribution within the league.

The ramifications are not just financial. The ACC’s power could be diminished. The concentration of football powers in two leagues will allow the SEC and Big Ten to set the agenda at the highest level of college athletics at a time of massive disruptions. Everything from the structure of the college football playoff to the number of scholarships, from the shape of the NCAA Tournament to revenue sharing with athletes is on the table, and the Super 2 will be able to shape those discussions.

“We understand where those two leagues are,” Phillips said. “No one is ignoring that. We're all trying to find ways to close that gap.”


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