All things FSU

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Doak after Dark sells 7,000 tix

7K x $20. FSU made a little money with this new revenue stream, plus makes football weekends more entertaining for visiting fans. Smart move by FSU.

WCTV Eyewitness News ‏@WCTV

ICYMI our Erika Fernandez had a chance to see what the first concert at Doak Campbell Stadium in 30 years was like.http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Doak-After-Dark-sees-over-7000-concertgoers--401013306.html …

It’s the first time in almost 30 years that Doak Campbell Stadium has hosted a concert. On Saturday night, over 7,000 people bought tickets to see country artists Old Dominion and Tyler Farr in concert.Doak Campbell Stadium hasn’t seen a ticketed concert since 1989. FSU staff says the excitement around town has been electric.
But the process has been a long one. FSU Associate Athletic Director, Jason Dennard says they wanted to give out of town folks a reason to come to Tallahassee.
"It'll be great just being able to be in the stadium, use the stadium, and have a bunch of people here, enjoy the music and the show," Dennard says.
FSU staff began building the stage after Friday night's football game, making Doak the biggest music venue in the city.
"It’s like exciting to be in the stadium and hear a concert and listen to music," says concert goer, Payton Scott.
Sitting in the south end zone of the field, Dennard says there isn't a bad seat in the house.

"I think it’s just a good time to hang out with friends and get to be at Doak Campbell stadium and see some really good country artists," says concertgoer, Cayelyn Louks.
"It’s in their favorite football stadium and this is new so everybody wants to come and see what’s going on and I think they're going to leave happy," Dennard says.
FSU announced their headliners for a spring concert at Doak. Folks can expect to see Blake Shelton and Jake Owen in Tallahassee on April 29.

Materials, medicines and building construction will benefit from MagLab research

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/11/13/record-strength-magnet-increase-fsus-research-capacities/93623946/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Each year, an estimated 1,500 scientists from around the world visit Tallahassee to conduct research at the MagLab at Florida State University.
And while most of the research is tedious, exacting and often complicated, the end result will have a direct impact on future health treatments, what materials are purchased and even what medicines are prescribed.

Senior writer Byron Dobson asked Tim Cross, a biochemistry professor at FSU, to discuss some practical applications as a result of this week’s tesla record.

Q. Why is this an important development to our everyday lives?
A: This very high field magnet, that has been designed to generate a stable and homogenous magnetic field, will be used to provide enhanced pharmaceuticals, to enhance chemical catalysts for producing plastics and many other materials used in our daily lives.
The processes for making specialized cements used in high-pressure oil wells or in the construction of skyscrapers will be studied and enhanced. How viruses function during infections and how drug resistance is achieved will be studied leading to new ways to defeat viral infections and drug resistance.
This magnet will allow us for the first time to explore the chemistry of oxygen and sulfur atoms by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance or NMR - this is the parent technology for our MRI imaging that is used in our hospitals.
In a sense what we do is to record an image of molecules, but it goes beyond that to understand how molecules function, how they achieve the properties they have, such as our pharmaceuticals.
For decades we have been using NMR technology in chemistry and biochemistry laboratories, such as those in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at FSU and in the MagLab’s NMR and MRI User Program that attracts researchers from all over the world to our facilities. Until now most of those studies have focused on carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen atoms in molecules, materials and proteins, but much of the important chemistry that these molecules, materials and proteins carries out involves atoms that have been difficult to study by commercial instrumentation. This new high field magnet and the instrumentation we have assembled for research using this magnet will allow us to routinely study the oxygens, the sulfur, the magnesium atoms and many more for the first time.

A: The federal grants used to design, engineer and construct this magnet are grants to Florida State University and some of the resources to perform scientific research in this magnet are also grants to FSU that have and will help move FSU toward a top 25 university.
Users for this magnet will be drawn from all over the world to use this new 36T magnet and the unique capabilities we are developing and implementing on this magnet so that this magnet stays at the scientific forefront for more than a decade.
Q: Can you put in simple terms what a hybrid magnet is and what research it will enhance?
A: This hybrid magnet is a combination of two different magnet technologies; one is a superconducting magnet technology and the other is a resistive magnet technology. The superconducting wires at very low temperature conduct electricity without resistance and provide a 14 Tesla background field with a bore diameter not dissimilar to that of an MRI instrument except at much stronger magnetic fields than those used in hospitals or in research facilities such as those in our medical community and at FSU that operate at 3 Tesla. The inner ‘coils’ of the magnet are resistive, meaning that as the power goes through them generating an additional 22 Tesla they generate resistance and need to be cooled by vast quantities of chilled and deionized water rushing through the magnet.
Q: How much of the design and construction work was done here in Innovation Park?
A: I believe the first discussions about this magnet began in 2001. The design and engineering was almost exclusively done in Innovation Park - some components such as the superconducting wire and the materials for the resistive portion of the magnet were purchased from outside of the MagLab, but the assembly, installation, and integration to the DC Power Supplies were done by folks at the Magnet Lab.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

ACC needs to do something about Boston College

BC brought their Big East mindset with them.....just collect the check and do nothing. Time to reward the producers ACC.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article114176883.html

"It’s unrealistic to expect Boston College to leave the ACC for at least a generation, willingly or otherwise. Not only does BC benefit from the massive sums of money every ACC school gets from ESPN, the Grant of Rights keeps teams from leaving the conference of their own accord anyway. Presumably that’s a two-way street.

This much is certain: College athletics, for better or worse, as much as we may prefer it to be otherwise, is a business, and Boston College is a declining asset that’s damaging the ACC’s brand.

Even if expulsion isn’t the answer, the other 14 ACC schools need to start thinking now about the future of Boston College. This clearly isn’t working at the moment, and while everyone loves those easy wins in football and basketball – almost everyone – it isn’t healthy for the ACC to have one school lagging this far behind for this long."

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article114176883.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-
decock/article114176883.html#storylink=cpy

Friday, November 11, 2016

FSU Defense Stats over 6 years and 3 Coordinators

I really like Charles Kelly.....but damn

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Most aggressive/relentless CFB fan bases on Twitter

Russillo and Kanell ‏@RussilloKanell

Most aggressive/relentless CFB fan bases on Twitter according to McShay, Kanell and Russillo #Congratspic.twitter.com/7KvmGuRQC0

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

UK to ACC in 1990s?

http://gridironnow.com/kentucky-invited-into-acc-early-1990s/

Jim Host played baseball at UK in the late 1950s. He graduated from UK and went on to become a magnificently successful businessman in that state and beyond, founding Host Communications, which at one point handled the broadcast, marketing and promotional rights of numerous top college athletic departments nationally. IMG purchased Host Communications in 2007 for more than $73 million.
Oscar Combs has been covering Kentucky athletics since the 1960s. He was a member of the Wildcats’ radio network broadcasts until this season.
In short, these guys know what they’re talking about when it comes to UK athletics.
Combs hosts a podcast and interviewed Host for an upcoming episode. What the two discussed could shed light on an angle of conference expansion and realignment previously unknown.

Did you know ACC once invited UK to join the conference in early 1990s? All 8 ACC schools had endorsed the idea through Duke AD Tom Butters.
— Oscar Combs (@wildcatnews) November 6, 2016

I am incredibly well-read on conference expansion history and never have heard that before. The notion of the ACC inviting Kentucky to leave the SEC — and Kentucky possibly being interested — and join it is not as absurd as it sounds in 2016.
RELATED: Developments in Big 12 could draw SEC back into expansion mode
In the early 1990s, college sports was experiencing a seismic shift of realignment, much like it has gone through the past several years. Penn State, Miami and Florida State gave up independent status to join conferences. The Big East added football and teams. The SEC expanded to add South Carolina and Arkansas. The Big 8 and Southwest Conference merged. Conference USA was created. The SEC was not the economic powerhouse it is today. Before the BCS, college basketball was the primary driver of revenue from national broadcast rights for college athletic departments.
As such, the ACC was generating greater dollars for its member institutions than the SEC was. It wasn’t a huge difference, and the figures pale in comparison to today’s dollars, but the ACC then was financially stronger — and a more nationally prominent — than the SEC, and its academics were far superior.
Kentucky being open to leaving the SEC for the ACC at that time wouldn’t have been absurd to consider.

Jim Host talks about how he was involved in Butter's mission for UK to join ACC. For the first time publicly, Jim tells the whole story.
— Oscar Combs (@wildcatnews) November 6, 2016

While that story is fresh, this one has been told before.

Did you know SEC was set to add Florida State (instead of South Carolina) during SEC expansion in 1992, but Coach Bobby Bowden nixed it?
— Oscar Combs (@wildcatnews) November 6, 2016

Monday, November 7, 2016

Sports losing subscribers

John Ourand ‏@Ourand_SBJ

Nielsen says sports nets lost lots of subscribers last month: NBATV -73K, NBCSN -705K, ESPNU -675K. SBD's story: http://sbjsbd.biz/2faxr2j pic.twitter.com/I2HVNfQ5oj