During the course of the conversation, an interesting question was posed to Meyer. He was asked to rank the top-5 jobs in college football based on the school, tradition, and prestige. Meyer was quick to interject, stating that he puts 'talent' in front of the other aspects mentioned.
It seemed like a simple answer for Meyer as he quickly rattled off:
Georgia Ohio State Florida State Florida LSU USC
He went on to mention Alabama and LSU as well, straying over the five schools mark, but we'll let it slide this time. Meyer clarified that he has the Seminoles and Gators tied in his rankings.
"I would say the Florida Gators/Florida State because I think they're really similar jobs cause of the talent level," Meyer stated.
While FSU would be getting an $88.5 million in specific funding this year under DeSantis’s “Framework for Freedom” proposal for the 2023-2024 fiscal year,
When all is said and done, the schools could wind up with significantly more funding as priorities and projects of the college and universities get added to the budget wish list. In DeSantis's 2022-2023 proposal, his suggestion was for FSU to get a budget of $71.3 million
But FSU ended up receiving nearly $280 million out of last year's state budget, and a big chunk of the money went toward the FSU Health Tallahassee Center that will be built on Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s campus after the university secured a $125 million check from the Florida Legislature.
Florida State University
Remodeling FSU’s Dittmer Building is included in the governor's proposed budget for the university, where $26.5 million in nonrecurring funds would be issued for the project.
The building, which was built in 1967, houses the university’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
In addition, $1.5 million would go toward the FSU College of Medicine’s Autism Center while $1.45 million would be used for the university’s Multidisciplinary Evaluation and Consulting Center through the College of Social Work — a fund that similar consulting centers at the University of Florida, University of Miami and University of South Florida would also receive.
Aside from the proposed budget, FSU’s legislative budget request for this fiscal year included the need for recurring investment of $25 million to continue the university’s entrepreneurial efforts, which would “help it move into the Top 10 public universities in the nation."
FSU is currently ranked as the no. 19 best public university in the country by U.S. News and World Report — tied with the University of Maryland, the University of Washington and Rutgers.
Another request from FSU is $35 million for operational support to prepare the research infrastructure for FSU Health. Plans are in the works for the university and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to make the state’s capital a leading medical research and health care center.
The requested operations funding would “bolster FSU’s plan to advance Florida’s economy and workforce,” according to the budget request.
The money would also go toward the university’s efforts of being included in the Association of American Universities, a group of prestigious research schools known for scholarship and innovation.
Disney reported earnings today and released some interesting facts about ESPN. Most notably, SEC network subscribers are 55 million and ACCN 42 million.
Should the Big Ten expand with ACC schools or Pac-12 schools? The answer is clear - the ACC schools. In this tweet, I have provided the data and arguments for why the Big Ten should only focus on adding ACC schools.
— Big Ten information. College football fan (@Genetics56) May 28, 2023
Florida State’s average of 3.09 million viewers for regular season televised football games from 2014-2021 leads all ACC schools.#OneTribepic.twitter.com/NEwnWwYBO8
Because, brother, when FSU is good, this program is maybe not a cash cow for the ACC (because this league doesn’t have those types of cows), but it is an absolute ratings monster that would be coveted, and I do mean coveted, in the open market.
So much so that Florida State definitely should be appreciated by its own conference — and almost catered to — considering the revenue and ratings it brings to the ACC, when the schedule is created.
Against LSU, the ‘Noles had the third-most watched opening week Sunday game in college football history. Against Louisville, the Seminoles had the second-most watched Friday night game in the last five years.
Against Florida, they had the most watched Friday night game on ABC since 2005. And against Oklahoma, on a Thursday night when an NFL game was also on, the Seminoles had the most watched bowl game of December (not counting playoff games, obviously).
People’s viewing habits are changing. Dramatically. And with streaming services perhaps being the future of sports-watching in this country (the NFL Sunday Ticket is moving to YouTube), I thought it was telling just what kind of viewership FSU is getting on this platform.
So, I focused on the ACC Digital Network’s condensed games.
These videos really are a wonderful way to go back and watch your favorite team in action. It’s not every play of the entire game, but it’s close, and it cuts out all the dead time from an actual broadcast. Most run in the neighborhood of 20 to 25 minutes.
I know I have given the ACC Network a lot of grief in recent years — haven’t we all? — but these condensed games are great, and not every conference does them. So, good work, Greensboro! Or Charlotte! Or wherever the headquarters are these days.
Anyway, back to the point.
In December, a few days before the Florida State bowl game against Oklahoma, I went back and counted the viewership of every single ACC condensed football game of 2022. Every. Single. One.
Here were the results:
Florida State tallied 1.661 million views.
The next closest? Clemson. At 987,000.
Third was Miami at 874,000. And North Carolina was fourth, right at 500,000.
The rest of the numbers broke down like this: Louisville (490K), Syracuse (459K), Georgia Tech (444K), Pitt (404K), N.C. State (369K), Wake Forest (288K), Virginia Tech (240K), Duke (240K), Boston College (223K) and Virginia (185K).
Now, to be fair, not every one of these teams had a condensed game every week, so if you want go just by average viewership for their condensed games, I did that, too.
Florida State averaged 138,417 views per condensed game. Clemson was second at 89,727. Duke was last at 24,000. Everyone else was in the middle, with none of them close to FSU.
According to an article posted on medium.com, these are "the average number of viewers per week" for 2022 regular season (but with zeroes for non-rated games, which really brings down the average!).
Taken primarily from "Orange Bowl Numbers Game" posted on SportsMediaWatch, but supplemented with additional data, here are the Orange Bowl tv ratings dating back to 1986 (with viewership numbers since 2001), with a header between each change of television network partners:
SEASON
DATE
GAME
NET
Rating
Viewers (M)
1985-86
Wed., 1/1/86
Oklahoma 25, Penn St 10*
NBC
21.3
n/a
1986-87
Thu., 1/1/87
Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8
NBC
16.0
n/a
1987-88
Fri., 1/1/88
Miami 20, Oklahoma 14*
NBC
20.8
n/a
1988-89
Mon., 1/2/89
Miami 23, Nebraska 3
NBC
12.9
n/a
1989-90
Mon., 1/1/90
Notre Dame 21, Colorado 6
NBC
18.5
n/a
1990-91
Tue., 1/1/91
Colorado 10, Notre Dame 9*
NBC
18.3
n/a
1991-92
Wed., 1/1/92
Miami 22, Nebraska 0*
NBC
11.0
n/a
1992-93
Fri., 1/1/93
FSU 27, Nebraska 14
NBC
4.0
n/a
1993-94
Sat., 1/1/94
FSU 18, Nebraska 16*
NBC
17.8
n/a
1994-95
Sun., 1/1/95
Nebraska 24, Miami 17*
NBC
11.4
n/a
SEASON
DATE
GAME
NET
Rating
Viewers (M)
1995-96
Mon., 1/1/96
FSU 31, Notre Dame 26
CBS
12.5
n/a
1996-97
Tue., 12/31/96
Nebraska 41, Va Tech 21
CBS
7.8
n/a
1997-98
Fri., 1/2/98
Nebraska 42, Tennessee 17*
CBS
13.3
n/a
SEASON
DATE
GAME
NET
Rating
Viewers (M)
1998-99
Sat., 1/2/99
Florida 31, Syracuse 10
ABC
8.4
n/a
1999-00
Sat., 1/1/00
Michigan 35, Alabama 34
ABC
11.4
n/a
2000-01
Wed., 1/3/01
Oklahoma 13, FSU 2*
ABC
17.8
27.240
2001-02
Wed., 1/2/02
Florida 56, Maryland 23
ABC
9.5
14.027
2002-03
Thu., 1/2/03
USC 38, Iowa 17
ABC
9.7
15.235
2003-04
Thu., 1/1/04
Miami 16, FSU 14
ABC
9.1
14.183
2004-05
Tue., 1/4/05
USC 55, Oklahoma 19*
ABC
13.7
21.419
2005-06
Tue., 1/3/06
Penn St 26, FSU 23
ABC
12.3
18.557
SEASON
DATE
GAME
NET
Rating
Viewers (M)
2006-07
Tue., 1/2/07
Louisville 24, Wake 13
FOX
7.0
10.660
2007-08
Thu., 1/3/08
Kansas 24, Va Tech 21
FOX
7.4
11.958
2008-09
Thu., 1/1/09
Va Tech 20, Cincinnati 7
FOX
5.4
9.319
2009-10
Tue., 1/5/10
Iowa 24, Ga Tech 14
FOX
6.8
10.879
SEASON
DATE
GAME
NET
Rating
Viewers (M)
2010-11
Mon., 1/3/11
Stanford 40, Va Tech 12
ESPN
6.7
10.682
2011-12
Wed., 1/4/12
WVU 70, Clemson 33
ESPN
4.5
7.174
2012-13
Tue, 1/1/13
FSU 31, NIU 10
ESPN
7.1
10.562
2013-14
Fri, 1/3/14
Clemson 40, Ohio St 35
ESPN
6.7
11.400
2014-15
Wed, 12/31/14
Ga Tech 49, Miss. St 34
ESPN
5.0
8.940
2015-16
Thu, 12/31/15
Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17*
ESPN
9.1
15.730
2016-17
Fri, 12/30/16
FSU 33, Michigan 32
ESPN
6.2
11.461
2017-18
Sat, 12/30/17
Wisconsin 34, Miami 24
ESPN
6.3
11.727
2018-19
Sat, 12/29/18
Alabama 45, Oklahoma 34*
ESPN
9.9
19.389
2019-20
Mon, 12/30/19
Florida 36, Virginia 28
ESPN
3.5
6.070
2020-21
Sat, 1/2/21
Texas AM 41, UNC 27
ESPN
?
7.577
2021-22
Fri, 12/31/21
Georgia 34, Michigan 11*
ESPN
8.1
17.192
2022-23
Fri, 12/30/22
Tennessee 31, Clemson 14
ESPN
4.6
8.590
Asterisk (*) indicates national championship game, or game that involved eventual national champion (and, yes, out of the goodness of my heart I included 1991 Colorado vs. Notre Dame), or the College Football Playoffs semi-final.
Florida State University has been awarded a $72.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to redesign and improve HIV prevention and care interventions in adolescents and young adults in the United States.
Under the grant, which will be dispersed over the course of seven years, FSU will serve as the Scientific Leadership Center (SLC) for the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions.
Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman, distinguished and endowed McKenzie Professor in the FSU College of Nursing and founding director of the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation (IDHI), will co-lead the SLC with Sybil Hosek, associate professor, Cook County Hospital, Department of Psychiatry & RUSH University, Department of Medicine.
“Working collaboratively, our team at IDHI, and expert staff within Sponsored Research Administration and the College of Nursing were able to successfully submit this nearly 3,000-page application to the NIH in the first month of my arrival at FSU,” Hightow-Weidman said. “This is a testament to the excellence of this university, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to be doing this work at FSU.”
The grant is believed to be the largest ever awarded by the NIH to a nursing school in the United States, and it signifies the rapidly growing FSU Health enterprise, which is attracting world-renowned researchers in health-related fields to the university.
“We recognize that optimization of evidence-based and integrated approaches to increase the uptake and use of effective biomedical HIV prevention and treatment products is required to make an impact,” Hosek said. “We must embrace boldness and complexity. We can no longer conduct research that tinkers around the edges if we are to seriously impact the adolescent HIV epidemic.”
This funding is part of an approximate $100 million that Hightow-Weidman and IDHI Associate Director Kate Muessig, a professor in the College of Nursing, bring to FSU.
The newly envisioned Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN) is a collaborative research enterprise focused on reducing new HIV infections among adolescents and young adults in the U.S. and improving the HIV continuum of care for youth living with HIV. The SLC will bring all elements of the network together and ensure that they function collaboratively, effectively, and efficiently with the Operations and Collaborations Center, NIH and the overall network.
The SLC will partner with Westat, a research services company, as the Operations and Collaboration Center of the ATN. The SLC will also include a Statistical and Data Management Core (SDMC), which will provide expertise in study design, statistical analysis, data collection and data management. The SDMC will be co-led by Muessig; Audrey Pettifor, professor of Epidemiology at UNC; and Emmes, a full-service contract research organization.
This funding is part of an approximate $100 million that Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman, distinguished and endowed McKenzie Professor in the FSU College of Nursing and founding director of the IDHI, and IDHI Associate Director Kate Muessig, also a professor in the College of Nursing, bring to FSU.
“Such a large-scale, complex clinical research program demands high productivity and strong contributions from each essential component,” Hightow-Weidman said. “Our proposed overall network structure is conceptualized as a well-oiled machine with interdependent structures working together seamlessly to achieve the mission of the ATN.”
Both Hightow-Weidman and Hosek have worked in the field of adolescent HIV prevention and treatment for the entirety of their careers and have worked collaboratively with the ATN for over 16 years, which gives them clear insight on how best to make this new iteration successful. These experienced and respected leaders favor a team-based approach and endorse the leadership principles of collaboration, responsiveness, efficiency and transparency – all while remaining passionately youth-focused.
The SLC will support an initial seven highly innovative and impactful clinical trials led by talented multidisciplinary teams, addressing NIH priority research areas, spanning key populations of youth, multiple socioecological systems, and a variety of regulatory phases. The work proposed is unique in its developmental grounding and focus on a broad domestic adolescent HIV prevention and care agenda. The proposed research projects seek to challenge and shift current research and clinical practice paradigms using novel theoretical concepts, approaches and methodologies.
“Our overall vision for a redesigned and robust ATN is one that not only anticipates and plans for ongoing evolution in the HIV field and an emerging scientific agenda but one with a renewed focus on the most impactful science and priority areas,” Hightow-Weidman said. “Where gaps exist, opportunities persist and the ATN, as the only domestic adolescent focused HIV network, must be poised to meet these challenges without hesitation.”
The ultimate goals of the ATN research portfolio include generating evidence and recommendations to advance the field of adolescent HIV medicine; influence clinical practice and protocols; reduce inequities in HIV-related outcomes; and inform community scale-up of sustainable, impactful biobehavioral interventions that reduce HIV transmission and improve individual outcomes for youth living with HIV.
Sybil Hosek, associate professor, Cook County Hospital, Department of Psychiatry & RUSH University, Department of Medicine, will co-lead the Scientific Leadership Center along with Dr. Hightow-Weidman.
Audrey Pettifor, professor of Epidemiology at UNC, will co-lead the Statistical and Data Management Core (SDMC) along with Muessig and Emmes, a full-service contract research organization.
Hightow-Weidman and Hosek also will provide the necessary leadership and structure to support the ATN Scientific Leadership Group (SLG) to develop and refine the research agenda of the ATN, convene working groups as needed, prioritize emerging research projects, efficiently manage the development of clinical protocols, implement and complete clinical trials and ensure timely publication and communication of results. The SLG includes the world’s experts in all areas relevant to ending the HIV epidemic among adolescents and young adults in the U.S.
Students at the FSU College of Nursing will have the opportunity to learn from NIH-funded research scientists like Hightow-Weidman and Muessig. The FSU College of Nursing is actively accepting applicants for its new research-based Ph.D. program. Applications are open at nursing.fsu.edu/academics/doctor-philosophy-nursing.phd. Full tuition coverage and graduate research assistantships are available for eligible applicants.
To learn more about the FSU College of Nursing and the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation, visit nursing.fsu.edu and idhi.fsu.edu.
.@FSUNursing has been awarded a $72.7 million grant from @NIH. This is believed to be the largest ever awarded by the NIH to a nursing school in the U.S., and it signifies the rapidly growing FSU Health enterprise. https://t.co/4qNWlFsB31
