(06-26-2014 09:29 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Why would NC State oppose UConn? NC State is certainly not a real football school. When you're good at nothing, you're not really anything centric.

Why? It's called business - I know you have it even at Greenville or did it wash away the last time the Tar River flooded after Hurricane Floyd?

2012:

School - FB Revenue - FB Expenses = Money Supporting Non-Revenue

Clemson - $41 million - $20 million = $21 million to Non-Revenue
NC State - $32 million - $18 million = $14 million to Non-Revenue
East Carolina - $10 million - 9 million = $1 million to Non-Revenue

source: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx

Now in NC State's case we also net about $11 million off basketball, Clemson doesn't do near that well in BB. They make net about $2 million. You netted $600,000 in the reporting year.

By comparison UNC netted $12 million off basketball and Duke $10.5 million and UNC netted $15 million off football and Duke just $6.5 million. Remember this net, not gross.

Every football game gate is important at Clemson, and NC State, and VT, and FSU in order to support the bottom line - to support the Non-Revenue programs.

Adding UConn does nothing to help the football bottom line for the ACC's schools that net most of their money from football. UConn will not sell one more ticket in Raleigh, Clemson, Blacksburg, or Tallahassee. What UConn will do is bring another mouth to feed and to monopolize a return date at some point in the future to a State with almost no football recruits.

It's not personal against UConn that the schools with the larger football stadiums who need to fund their non-revenue programs out of the football proceeds and not donations don't get a benefit to adding UConn - it's just business.

Now with BC it's another story.