RE: "West Virginia or UConn would have been a better choice."
Let's just crunch some numbers shall we:
West Virginia's 2015-6 Total Gross Revenue was $105,140,368.
If that was placed against the Total Gross Revenues of the schools in the present ACC (including Notre Dame) West Virginia would have been the 4th largest grossing product behind 1. Notre Dame, 2. Florida State, 3. Louisville, and ahead of 5. Clemson.
But recently the WSJ set valuations for the economic impact of schools football teams. By those valuations West Virginia's assigned valuation of $72,049,000 would have placed them only above Duke and Wake Forest in the ACC.
Connecticut's 2015-6 Total Gross Revenue was $79,229,275.
They would have placed 12th in the present ACC (including Notre Dame) and ahead of Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, Boston College, and Wake Forest. And that would have been with the handicap of a low-balled TV contract.
Connecticut's WSJ valuation was $59,776,000 which would have placed only above Wake Forest in the ACC.
Louisville's Gross Total Revenue was third in the ACC and only out of 2nd place by 1 million dollars: $112,146,504, whereas Louisville's WSJ Valuation was $160,899,000 which would place them 8th in a 15 member ACC.
A schools Gross Total Revenue is illustrative of the School's earning potential. The WSJ valuation is illustrative of what the value of the school's brand is to others, like networks, advertising, and merchandise retailers. It is the impact economically that the school is projected to have.
When the impact valuation is lower than the total gross revenue you have a statement that the addition of that school is probably not feasible for those who pay for the brands and content of a conference since it is a negative indicator for the economic impact that the brand will carry for them as it relates to the total value of the collective conference members and the average conference member valuation.
To give you an idea of how important adding those schools who increase the projected valuation would be to the ACC. Mississippi State's total valuation would place them 6th in the current ACC behind Notre Dame, Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech, and Miami.
The ACC is dead last in its economic impact if you don't count Notre Dame. They just nudge out the PAC if you do count the Irish in the group totals.
SEC: $7,327,830,000 SEC Average per school: $523,416,428
B1G: $5,820,481,000 B1G Average per school: $415,748,643
B12: $3,764,333,000 B12 Average per school: $376,433,300
ACC: $3,410,313,000 ACC Average per school: $227,354,200 (with N.D.)
PAC: $3,045,197,000 PAC Average per school: $253,766,417 (higher than ACC w/ND)
ACC: $2,553,375,000 ACC Average per school: $182,383,929 (without N.D.)
So with N.D. the ACC technically has a collective valuation higher than the PAC but that is only because the ACC has 15 schools and the PAC has 12 if you count N.D.
The PAC per school average is higher.
What this illustrates is that without N.D. the ACC's valuation would have lagged all others by quite a bit. Note that N.D.'s presence in full increases the average ACC schools valuation by 45 million dollars per school.
This clearly indicates that why N.D. even as a partial is so valuable to the ACC. Notre Dame's part time presence increases even the valuations of the ACC schools without being considered fully. Otherwise the average valuation of $182,383,929 would be a tad lower.
So adding either W.V.U. or Connecticut would only detract from the average valuation of the ACC. Louisville increased it.
That's why Louisville was added, and why they aren't likely to be booted.
It's also partly why the Big 12 is still alive. Only Texas and Oklahoma add to the value of the SEC and Big 10. They still add even if O.S.U. and T.T.U. are taken. But O.S.U. and T.T.U. don't add to either the SEC's or B1G's bottom line (academics not being considered to their detriment). So if OU and UT don't go to the Big 10 or SEC where they would earn the most by quite a bit, then they have an Officer and a Gentlemen's moment, "I got nowhere else to go!" Hence the survival of the Big 12.
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2017 05:15 PM by JRsec.)
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