RE: New Athletic Department Revenues
I just did some interesting back of the envelope calculations. They're rough estimates based off of a small sample size (I only looked at '01-'02 football and basketball seasons and reported revenue and '14-'15 football and basketball seasons and reported revenue), so take my findings for what you will, but GT and Clemson are both really, really bad at translating athletic success into athletic department-recognized revenue (Clemson is the worst). I think that I can explain Clemson because I heard that IPTAY isn't on the athletic department's books and that's probably where most of the donations go. So, IPTAY probably sees the most volatility based off of team performance. However, I have no explanation as to why GT isn't higher, and none of the explanations offered on this board fit with the numbers.
I also noticed that out of the 8 pre-BE raid ACC teams still in the conference (i.e. sans UMD), UNC was the best at translating success into revenue. They were followed by Duke, FSU, NCSU, and Wake, leaving UVA, GT, and Clemson at the bottom. To me, that suggests a little home cooking. All four NC schools + the conference's lone football super power rounding out the top 5 is straight fishy. My guess is that there is a significant amount of politics at play - especially since the top three are UNC, Duke, and FSU in that order. If there isn't special treatment, then that's one heck of a coincidence.
Looking at the conference as a whole, I noticed that almost all the teams that moved did really, really well. Miami, UL, VT, and SU were the top four (with Pitt being #6 and BC being #11). My guess is that's because those schools upgraded conferences.
I think that BC is the lowest ranked former BIG EAST team because the BIG EAST fit BC really, really well - much better than the ACC IMHO, so the gap between the BIG EAST and the ACC is smallest for the Eagles. Also, I don't get the feeling that BC has a lot of political pull, and what pull they do have was spent screwing over UConn, and bringing in northern ACC schools. But those guess are just that - guesses.
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2015 07:30 PM by nzmorange.)
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