All things FSU

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/09/08/famu-fsu-coe-dean-sets-goal-becoming-top-50-institution/90092270/

"J. Murray Gibson, dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, says it has the right combination to become one of the country’s top schools in 10 years.
Gibson, addressing members of the college’s Management Council meeting Thursday, said the joint college also has the potential to supply engineers for future job demands in Florida, while also helping to fill the void of minority engineers nationwide.
“In five to 10 years, I could see this being a top 50 college, the best in the country for producing African-American engineers,” said Murray, who was appointed dean in June.

Getting there will require increased private fundraising, hiring top professors, branding the college and convincing the Legislature that the school needs more money.
Today, the college ranks 117th in national graduate rankings. It has 90 faculty members and generates $20 million in research funding. In comparison, the University of Florida ranks NO. 43 nationally. It has 200 faculty members and brings in $68 million in annual research.
State University System Chancellor Marshall Criser III, suggested the college form a collaboration with Florida’s business leaders in generating research money. He mentioned the success of The Georgia Research Association and its relationship with Georgia Tech and other Peach state universities.
FSU President John Thrasher said it was important to note the joint college’s improvements in the past two years. The next step is to get legislative approval for more funding.
The college’s legislative budget request for next year is a little more than $7 million. That includes $3 million in “start-up” money for new faculty and boosting research capabilities; an additional $625,000 for five new faculty members and $1 million to increase faculty salaries so they are more in line with colleagues nationally. It also would go toward making salaries between FAMU faculty and FSU faculty more equitable.
Murray said the joint college also could become a model for other universities serious about producing more minority graduates. His goal is to have it recognized as the “best engineering school in the nation” for educating black engineers.

He also noted The Social Mobility Index ranked FAMU No. 3 in the nation in improving the economic standing for underserved students. Harvard placed 438, he said.
“Apple would hire most everyone we could produce,” he said of the tech-industry’s push to diversify their workplaces.
Later, council members were given a tour of the college."

Jimbo Fisher Factoid of the day

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This is bizarre stat. #FSU is also 68-0 under Jimbo Fisher when leading after the fourth quarter...

FSU Nike contract? Good deal for FSU or not?

http://floridastate.247sports.com/Board/36/Contents/FSUs-Nike-contract-wealthiest-in-the-state-47285110

tricknole

"$4M is PEANUTS compared to what schools have started making in recent years. We signed an extension with Nike 3 years ago that gave us a minimal bump in money/apparel. Our old contract wasn't finished yet and we foolishly failed to go to the open market and see what Adidas and Under Armour would bid, and if it would force Nike to up it's bid. Now we're stuck - yes, STUCK - with a deal that pays out a max $4.5M in apparel/cash until 2022-23. When some schools are making $10M RIGHT NOW. Miami is making more than that with their new Adidas contract (granted, Adidas is by far the ugliest of the 3 apparel supplies, Russell is the most hideous, but aside from GT I'm not sure who still uses them).
And no, rsmd2015, close to $3M in gear and apparel is not a lot. Not for 500 student athletes across all sports. Not for all of their uniform combinations, practice gear, footwear (both on and off the court/field), backpacks, etc. Especially if they use retail pricing and not wholesale (which I'm sure it specifies in the contract but I'm not going to bother finding it)."

http://floridastate.247sports.com/Bolt/FSUs-Nike-contract-wealthiest-in-the-state-47285110

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Florida State has a long standing relationship Nike, the ‘Noles official apparel designer since 1998. FSU has one of the strongest brands in all of college football. The teams brand has been built as much on winning as it has on the Nike uniforms and footwear.
The Business Journal released the most recent financial numbers of Florida State’s deal with Nike. It shows that Nike is supplying the program with $2.8 Million in Nike gear, which goes above and beyond just jerseys and cleats. This also includes, gloves, workout gear, backpacks and other FSU labeled clothing.

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Between the gear that is given to the team and the cash payout from Nike to FSU, this year’s deal with Nike with pay Florida State a total of $4.2 million dollars.

You can read more about it here and also see what other teams’ deals are worth.

Here’s what the other teams in the state of Florida are making off their apparel deals:
University of Florida (Nike) $3.2 million
USF (Under Armour) $3 million
FIU (Adidas) $373,000
FAU (Adidas) $295,000
*UCF and Miami’s numbers were not disclosed."

Top 25 apparel deals for this season:

1. Texas: $12,850,000 Nike
2. Wisconsin: $11,000,000 UA
3. Mich: $10,440,000 Nike
4. UCLA: $8,900,000 Adidas
5. SoCar: $8,500,000 UA
6. U of L: $6,865,000 Adidas
7. TAMU: $6,700,000 Adidas
8. KU: $6,650,000 Adidas
9. tOSU: $6,205,681 Nike
10. AU: $6,200,000 UA
11. IU: $5,625,000 Adidas
12. Cinci: $4,695,000 UA
13. Maryland: $4,550,000 UA
14. UConn: $4,475,000 Nike
15. LSU: $4,300,000 Nike
16. FSU: $4,210,000 Nike
17. Neb: $4,190,000 Adidas
18. Illini: $4,000,000 Nike
19. UNC: $3,875,000 Nike
20. UGA: $3,813,000 Nike
21. Tenn: $3,8000,000 Nike
22. Bama: $3,790,000 Nike
23. Wash: $3,692,000 Nike
24. Mich St: $3,590,000 Nike
25. UK: $3,525,000 Nike

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/feature/ncaa-deals-nike-adidas-under-armour.html

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Duke, ACC, & football

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/duke/article99589157.html

"Until recently the university exhibited a tacit – some would say healthy – ambivalence toward the athletic arms race consuming college programs in elite conferences. But visitors to Duke’s West Campus this past Saturday for the Blue Devils’ 2016 home football opener against N.C. Central saw an historic departure – an emphatic and enthusiastic embrace of the accouterments of big-time sports.
Supporters of Duke athletics have rushed to fund a vision that’s been almost a decade in reaching fruition, embodied in a 2008 blueprint modestly titled “Unrivaled Ambition: A Strategic Plan for Duke Athletics.” An athletic fundraising effort launched in 2012 sought a quarter of a billion dollars to realize the plan’s goals. Already it’s brought in a staggering $350 million, $100 million beyond its original target, with 11 months to go in the campaign."

Spending on football

"Certainly it’s grown. In virtually one gulp, Duke has added a quarter of a million square feet of new structures at its athletic core. That square footage doesn’t count numerous Olympic sport improvements, among them a new East Campus softball stadium for Duke’s 27th team. Thanks to the ongoing fundraising effort, many Olympic sports anticipate an infusion of scholarship support, presently a $21 million annual athletic department expense at $70,000 per head. Olympic athletes are already using their own 13,000-square-foot workout and training facility in the new Brooks Center across the plaza from Cameron.
A 30,000-square-foot addition to Cameron expanded the lobby and hospitality space, and administrative offices moved to Brooks after 75 years of coexistence with basketball. “It’s not an office building trying to be an athletic facility anymore,” Cragg says.
The key change, though, reflects realities beyond campus. Where once basketball drove TV revenues, particularly for the ACC, now the preponderance of income is derived from football. Top-notch facilities and support, matched by a quality coach such as David Cutcliffe, are seen as prerequisites to consistent relevance in a Power Five conference.
“We had to be a legitimate player in football,” Cragg says. “The previous model of Duke athletics probably didn’t work in the modern world by relying on one sport, being basketball. We’re unique in that – most schools are built around football.”
In fact, Duke was built around football, its teams nationally prominent from 1930 through the ACC’s early years. More recently the school became a laggard in football spending, its coaches’ salaries at the bottom of the ACC as the Blue Devils endured a run of 17 losing records in 18 seasons under four different men prior to Cutcliffe’s well-timed arrival in December 2007. The strategic plan adopted four months later succinctly targeted the need to “change the culture of the entire program” in football.
Duke had voted in vain with North Carolina in 2003 against league expansion that brought in Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech and enhanced the ACC’s football orientation. Soon afterward Duke was engulfed by a scandal involving a party-prone men’s lacrosse squad, an unethical prosecutor and a dissembling and disturbed young woman whose accusations were ultimately discredited. The mess riveted national attention in 2006 and 2007, much to Duke’s detriment.
Cragg says the painful episode drove the school to reappraise, spurring the formulation of its 38-page strategic plan in 2008. “We were at a low point here,” Cragg concedes. “I think it forced us, and I say that in a healthy way, it forced us to look at ourselves and our university to look at athletics.”
The plan parochially cited 1992 improvements to football facilities at UNC as precipitating “a tidal wave that swept across the ACC.” More germane, that same year Florida State, a football colossus, had joined the conference with the promise its presence would lift all boats. Instead FSU immediately dominated, finishing first for nine straight seasons with a combined 70-2 league record. That sparked a competitive spending spree that hasn’t abated since.

Nations longest home win streak

http://www.theterritory.org/phorum/read.php?5,512482

"The 21 game win streak is the noles second longest home win streak. 37 games from 95 to 2001 is the longest win streak.

FSU's longest unbeaten streak was 54 games from 1992 to 2001. The one tie being the "Choke at Doak" vs the gates.

Anyone know who has the second longest active streak?

Alabama has a 5 game streak since losing to Ole Miss last year.

I'm gonna guess Clemson, who I think has won 16 in a row since we last beat them up there.

Ohio St lost late last year to Mich St at home.

Tcu has won 14."

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