Derwin James SI #1 player in College Football 2017

Time ranks FSU

http://time.com/money/best-colleges/rankings/best-colleges-in-the-south/

These colleges notched the best combination of educational quality, affordability, and high-earning alumni in the South.

http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/#!/2017/07/best-southern-schools.html

Nat'l Rank	college	location	Median SAT/ACT score	Est. price 2017-18 without aid	Est. price 2017-18 with avg. grant	% who get need-based grants	% who get merit grants	Early career earnings
11	U. Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	1360/31	$31,221	$15,702	27%	2%	$58,000
12	Rice	Houston, TX	1470/33	$62,697	$24,259	37%	1%	$63,100
15	Vanderbilt	Nashville, TN	1510/33	$67,074	$24,772	45%	20%	$57,900
16	Ga Tech	Atlanta, GA	1400/32	$30,660	$13,755	38%	25%	$65,600
18	U. Florida	Gainesville, FL	1270/29	$21,813	$15,779	33%	39%	$49,800
23	Va Tech	Blacksburg, VA	1220/NA	$26,241	$19,870	31%	15%	$57,400
31	U. Texas	Austin, TX	1290/29	$27,789	$18,755	33%	12%	$53,900
34	Texas A & M	College Station, TX	1200/27	$26,153	$14,821	39%	3%	$55,000
50	NC State	Raleigh, NC	1250/28	$23,647	$14,661	44%	6%	$52,500
60	UNC	Chapel Hill, NC	1320/30	$25,706	$11,648	41%	2%	$46,800
61	Clemson	Clemson, SC	1250/29	$29,371	$17,952	37%	23%	$54,100
62	U. Georgia	Athens, GA	1240/28	$26,535	$14,342	40%	7%	$47,800
64	Duke	Durham, NC	1460/33	$70,898	$22,999	40%	4%	$62,000
118	Wake Forest	Winston Salem, NC	NA/NA	$69,245	$26,923	31%	18%	$51,400
162	Arizona St	Tempe, AZ	1150/25	$27,137	$13,924	52%	5%	$49,900
180	Oklahoma	Norman, OK	1200/26	$26,563	$18,262	27%	25%	$50,000
194	UTEP	El Paso, TX	940/20	$22,911	$5,868	67%	13%	$42,200
195	U. Houston	Houston, TX	1150/25	$26,124	$15,184	51%	3%	$52,400
246	LSU	Baton Rouge, LA	1120/26	$27,186	$14,636	38%	1%	$48,200
251	Florida St	Tallahassee, FL	1210/28	$23,301	$18,045	48%	34%	$44,100
255	Oklahoma St	Stillwater, OK	1110/25	$23,552	$15,360	40%	3%	$47,000
261	Texas Tech	Lubbock, TX	1100/25	$23,835	$16,205	42%	16%	$51,700
261	Louisiana Tech	Ruston, LA	1070/24	$20,480	$9,617	51%	12%	$48,300
277	U. Miami	Coral Gables, FL	1320/30	$65,804	$38,280	13%	18%	$51,300
325	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	1320/31	$70,063	$34,641	35%	9%	$46,200
325	U. Arizona	Tucson, AZ	NA/NA	$27,178	$16,838	48%	4%	$50,800
333	Southern Methodist	Dallas, TX	1310/30	$71,733	$39,530	24%	21%	$51,900
344	Mississippi St	Mississippi State, MS	1130/25	$24,202	$16,660	54%	5%	$47,000

Time's Sources: U.S. Department of Education, Peterson's, PayScale.com, MONEY/College Measures calculations.

FSU reconsidering asian massage parlor ads....

https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/fsu-considering-modifications-to-controversial-doak-campbell-billboards

Through a university spokesman, FSU Athletics Director Stan Wilcox confirmed to Warchant on Thursday that the Seminoles are reconsidering the look of advertisements on the back of the stadium's new south end zone scoreboard.
"We are in the process of evaluating modifications that might be made to the recent graphics," Wilcox said.


https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/has-fsu-gone-too-far-commercializing-doak-campbell-stadium-

. The recent gaudy ads unveiled on the back of south end zone scoreboard, which are clearly visible behind the Unconquered Statue, have altered this feeling. There’s little doubt now that FSU has stepped over the precipice and is quickly falling down a slippery slope. Unlike the north end zone scoreboard, or the various ads around Doak Campbell or the Tucker Center, this is the first time that an advertisement is clearly more prominent compared to accompanying Florida State logos or photos.

Florida State’s administration has a responsibility to keep IMG in check and balance the need for advertising against college tradition and pageantry. That clearly wasn’t done with the most recent additions to the south end zone scoreboard. But as Ira Schoffel first reported in Thursday’s story, FSU is reevaluating these ads and will hopefully come up with a less obtrusive alternative such as the one suggested by a poster on the Tribal Council.

Hopefully, FSU will take a step back from this advertising tipping point and will leave it to somebody else to become the leader in the commercialization of college sports.

FSU finishes 13 in Directors Cup

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/D1final2017.pdf


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-state-seminoles/chopping-block/



http://floridastate.247sports.com/Bolt/FSU-finishes-in-top-15-of-Directors-Cup-53377367


http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2017/06/29/florida-state-finishes-13-th-directors-cup/439346001/

They charged to the front after an excellent spring where eight of the nine teams competing finished in the Top-20 including three Top-10 finishes by beach volleyball (4), baseball (5), and softball (9).

The Seminoles were the second highest rated team in the ACC behind No. 5 North Carolina. Notre Dame, which is in the ACC for every sport besides football, was the only other ACC team in the Top-25 at No. 23.
FSU finished second in the state of Florida as well. UF led the state at No. 3. Miami (56), South Florida (90), Central Florida (97), and Florida Gulf Coast (100) were the other programs from the state to finish in the Top-100.

Revenue Gap article

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/

Another day, another national championship for the Florida Gators.
Yawn.

This time, it was the baseball team. A couple of weeks ago, it was the dynastic track-and-field team. A couple of weeks before that, it was the women’s tennis team. Since 2010, the Gators have won 17 national championships in a multitude of sports.
Beware, Florida State. It’s only a matter of time before UF’s football team is paying, er, playing for national championships, too. Ditto, the basketball team.
You see, nobody in this part of the country buys, er, wins national championships like UF does.
This column is not meant so much to prop up the Gators for being an all-sports giant, although they certainly are. After coach Kevin O’Sullivan’s baseball team beat LSU 6-1 to win UF’s first College World Series championship Tuesday night, UF became the only program since integration that has baseball, football and basketball national championships in its trophy case.
This column is meant more as a warning for Florida State and its fellow ACC members. Beware of the Gators and their filthy rich Southeastern Conference brethren, who — with all of their SEC Network money — could be on the verge of spending you into irrelevance.
Granted, at this point in time, the ACC has never looked better with national championships in both football (Clemson beat SEC goliath Alabama) and basketball (North Carolina beat Gonzaga), but don’t kid yourself: The SEC is earning money and spending it at an alarming rate.

 

All you have to do is look at UF as an example. The Gators likely will announce soon they are getting ready to build a new baseball stadium and a new softball complex. This comes on the heels of totally refurbishing their basketball arena to the tune of $64.5 million and building a new football indoor-practice facility for close to $20 million.
And coming soon: Another $60 million for a stand-alone football Taj Mahal that surely will be filled with smoothie bars, waterfalls, laser-tag studios and all sorts of amenities to entice the recruits who don’t go to Alabama.
“I think the SEC Network and the money and exposure it has provided has been a huge factor,” says UF basketball coach Mike White, who took his team to within one victory of the Final Four in his second season. “The network is providing an incredible amount of money for our institutions to spend on facilities. When you look around the league, there are renovations everywhere.”
According to the most recent numbers, ACC revenues dropped during the 2015-16 fiscal year and the conference offered the lowest annual payout per school ($23.8 million) of any of the Power 5 conferences. Compare that to the SEC’s bowl and TV payout of $40.42 million and then do the math. If this massive discrepancy were to continue over a 10-year period, the Gators would make $160 million more than the Seminoles. That’s a lot of plush facilities to entice wide-eyed recruits.
And we’re just talking about bowl and TV revenue. In total earnings, the SEC averages $30 million per school more than the ACC. You simply cannot continue operating at such a financial deficit and expect to consistently compete.
If you really want to put it in perspective, think about it this way: The discrepancy between the SEC and ACC payouts is almost as large as the discrepancy between the ACC and the American Athletic Conference payouts. In other words, when it comes to financial comparisons, the Gators are to FSU what FSU is to UCF.
The hope, of course, is that when ESPN launches the ACC Network in 2019 that FSU and its league partners can begin to close the gap. But in this era of cord-cutting among viewers and budget-cutting at ESPN, the question is: How profitable will the ACC Network be?
Obviously, it’s not going to be as successful as the SEC Network, which, according to AL.com, has been valued at nearly $5 billion — four times more than even the highly successful Big Ten Network.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like the ACC is hurting for cash; it’s just that the SEC has it to burn.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
In sports as in politics, those contestants and candidates with the most money usually win.

ACC Football RX: ESPN Distribution Contracts, Update 2017-06-29

Great breakdown by ACC Football RX


https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2017/06/espn-distribution-contracts-update-2017.html?showComment=1498678629808#!/2017/06/espn-distribution-contracts-update-2017.html

According to Sports Business Daily...

Between now and the ACC Network’s planned launch in 2019, ESPN also has affiliate deals coming up with Verizon Fios (at the end of 2018), Charter (mid-2019) and AT&T (late 2019)

Add to that some information I was able to Google about current subscribers for Sling, DirectTV Now and Playstation Vue, along with information in my previous post on ACC Network distribution, and we come up with an updated table of ESPN distributors:

ESPN Contract Renewals with TV Distributors

Distributor	Renewal	subscribers*
Comcast	2021	22.4
DirectTV		20.8
Charter	2019	17.3
DISH	2022	13.6
Verizon/FiOS	2019	4.7
ATT Uverse	2019	4.5
Cox	?	4.5
Altice	2017	3.6
Frontier	?	1.3
Sling TV	?	1
Mediacom	?	0.8
DirectTV Now	?	0.4
PS Vue	?	0.4
Windstream	?	0.36
RCN	?	0.33
Cable ONE	?	0.3
Hulu	?	?
YouTube TV	?	?

* in millions

see also: http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2016/07/acc-network-distribution-hurdle.html

BOTTOM LINE: According to the best information I can find, ESPN will be a chance to negotiate carriage of the ACC Network for at least 30.1 million subscribers by 2019, and up to 66.1 million by 2022 at the latest. Keep in mind that there are another 30.2 million subscribers out there with unknown renewal dates for their carriers - some or all of those could be on board by 2019. So to keep it simple, let's say the ACC Network will launch with somewhere between 30 and 96 million subscribers.

Let's further assume an average of around $0.70 each (a little less than the SEC Network). That translates into

Est. 30M to 96M X $0.70/month = $21.0M to $67.2M per month
$21M to $67M per month X 12 months = $252.0M to $806.4M per year
Assume half of that goes to ESPN, leaving $126M to $403.2M
divided 15 ways* comes to $8.4M to $26.9M per team

* if you prefer assigning a share to the conference, divide 16 ways: $7.9M to $25.2M each

Of course, I'm not accounting for the costs of production because I have no idea what those are.

If you think the ACC Network only gets an average of $0.35 per month, just divide those numbers in half -- it's still a lot of money!

NCAA National Championships

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2016-17 D1 NCAA (+ Football) National Championships earned by each school.