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(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

And yet that school's athletic department still produces a lot more revenue than your school. Go figure! That probably wouldn't be the case if your AD put more emphasis on monetizing your basketball program which has shown very serious potential this season.
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(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

And yet that school's athletic department still produces a lot more revenue than your school. Go figure! That probably wouldn't be the case if your AD put more emphasis on monetizing your basketball program which has shown very serious potential this season.

We've covered this over and over and over and over and over. We are a school located in a small town, not located in a city of 145k. The majority of our fanbase lives at least an hour away, with a good portion much farther than that. Football is an all day event where you come and tailgate and socialize before and after the game. Basketball, especially on weeknights, simply isn't possible. Add in the fact that the weather isn't absolutely miserable in SC during basketball season like it is in Syracuse and people have a ton more options for things to do. It's going to be sunny and almost 70 degrees here this weekend.....I'm going crappie fishing. How's the weather going to be in Syracuse?


And maybe y'all can use some of that extra revenue y'all have to work towards having a winning record against Clemson in any of the revenue generating sports.
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(02-16-2016 10:57 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 10:20 AM)TexanMark Wrote:  FSU could help themselves by supporting your basketball better. If you filled the arena with more regularity that would help reduce the financial stress. Your tickets are dirt cheap...and you averaged 6700 last year. Just saying...

You have 20+ times to fill your coffers with 12k seats instead of 6k...if you charged the ACC average of $25-35 a ticket that would help more.

You don't even have to charge what Duke, UNC, Ville and Cuse charges...

I have to call a foul here... such suggestions are like asking why doesn't Pitt sell out Heinz Field or why doesn't Miami sell out Sun-Life? Or, for that matter, why can't Syracuse charge $55 per football ticket like Clemson does?

I have to disagree with you here Mark. Questioning that a school can put more emphasis on monetizing basketball and increase their revenues significantly is very different than the questions you posed as a contrast. You will soon see how much bb can add to a schools bottom line when Buzz starts to really get going. He's a very good coach. VT showed that it wants to put more emphasis on bb by going out and stealing a great coach from another more established bb program.

You take a look at the top 5 athletic depts. in the Acc you will see that FSU, Louisville, Duke, Syracuse and I believe UNC there. Only one is not known for its bb.

Someone mentioned baseball as a revenue generator. Its not even in the same hemisphere as bb, and closer to lacrosse as a revenue generator.
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(02-16-2016 04:14 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 03:59 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

And yet that school's athletic department still produces a lot more revenue than your school. Go figure! That probably wouldn't be the case if your AD put more emphasis on monetizing your basketball program which has shown very serious potential this season.

We've covered this over and over and over and over and over. We are a school located in a small town, not located in a city of 145k. The majority of our fanbase lives at least an hour away, with a good portion much farther than that. Football is an all day event where you come and tailgate and socialize before and after the game. Basketball, especially on weeknights, simply isn't possible. Add in the fact that the weather isn't absolutely miserable in SC during basketball season like it is in Syracuse and people have a ton more options for things to do. It's going to be sunny and almost 70 degrees here this weekend.....I'm going crappie fishing. How's the weather going to be in Syracuse?


And maybe y'all can use some of that extra revenue y'all have to work towards having a winning record against Clemson in any of the revenue generating sports.

For someone who says bb doesn't matter you sure like to point to scoreboard. If Clemson starts stringing a few 20 plus win seasons in bb, you will see folks start to paying more attention to bb down there.
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(02-16-2016 10:11 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  Nole, I agree that the growing revenue gap is a problem but I have a question for you on the doubling of the donation requirement at FSU, is it possible that that increase is caused by supply & demand? It is reasonable to assume that the demand for season football tickets would increase following a national championship run & with the great success of Jimbo.

Reasonable question, but no, that is NOT the case at FSU...not the reason for the increase.

It is simply a response to the increase revenue needs for football at this level
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Again....

"The refusal to acknowledge issues is the foundation for no change which is going to be an issue in the future."


diverting the topic of Conference issues is a consistent mantra of the ACC.....it is going to cost the ACC in the future.

Change can either come from the ACC first....or it will come from outside the conference eventually.
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(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

Cool story...but that school generates more total revenue than Clempsum

You whine about a small town and being hard to generate attendance...but where are your students at? We have fans driving in from Rochester, Utica, Binghamton, etc...for basketball games and you can't get 5k to drive 30-40 mins from Greenville?

We had more students in Boston for the BC game than BC students...that is traveling 5 hours in sub zero conditions.

BTW, going to be around 40 in Cuse this weekend and rain...you wanna compare weather in July-August...the SC Midlands is hideous in the summer.
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(02-16-2016 04:44 PM)nole Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 10:11 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  Nole, I agree that the growing revenue gap is a problem but I have a question for you on the doubling of the donation requirement at FSU, is it possible that that increase is caused by supply & demand? It is reasonable to assume that the demand for season football tickets would increase following a national championship run & with the great success of Jimbo.

Reasonable question, but no, that is NOT the case at FSU...not the reason for the increase.

It is simply a response to the increase revenue needs for football at this level

Perhaps, but would they do it if it was going to result in LESS $$$ which indicates to me that the demand must be there, correct?

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(02-16-2016 04:52 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

Cool story...but that school generates more total revenue than Clempsum

You whine about a small town and being hard to generate attendance...but where are your students at? We have fans driving in from Rochester, Utica, Binghamton, etc...for basketball games and you can't get 5k to drive 30-40 mins from Greenville?

We had more students in Boston for the BC game than BC students...that is traveling 5 hours in sub zero conditions.

BTW, going to be around 40 in Cuse this weekend and rain...you wanna compare weather in July-August...the SC Midlands is hideous in the summer.

Well maybe there is something to money not being everything then because it sure hasn't helped Syracuse accomplish much of anything of note since joining the ACC except embarrass the rest of us by being put on probation.

July-August can have some hot days, but when you are an hour and a half from the beach or an hour and a half away from the mountains it's not that bad. That or just get in the boat in one of the many lakes in the area.

How long does it take to escape the Siberia of the ACC and enjoy the outdoors without risking frostbite?
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(02-16-2016 05:05 PM)omniorange Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 04:44 PM)nole Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 10:11 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  Nole, I agree that the growing revenue gap is a problem but I have a question for you on the doubling of the donation requirement at FSU, is it possible that that increase is caused by supply & demand? It is reasonable to assume that the demand for season football tickets would increase following a national championship run & with the great success of Jimbo.

Reasonable question, but no, that is NOT the case at FSU...not the reason for the increase.

It is simply a response to the increase revenue needs for football at this level

Perhaps, but would they do it if it was going to result in LESS $$$ which indicates to me that the demand must be there, correct?

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It was done because FSU needs more revenue to stay at the highest level in football. The pressures for more football revenue are growing.


Simple as that.
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(02-16-2016 04:48 PM)nole Wrote:  Again....

"The refusal to acknowledge issues is the foundation for no change which is going to be an issue in the future."


diverting the topic of Conference issues is a consistent mantra of the ACC.....it is going to cost the ACC in the future.

Change can either come from the ACC first....or it will come from outside the conference eventually.

But aren't the truly significant conference issues more the result of the individual programs within the conference? Other than the conference somehow mandating "x" amount be spent on football or risk being kicked out (which would require a super majority vote by conference members), what precisely can the conference office do? And in terms of such an unrealistic mandate, I think many on this board would be surprised as to which programs would be above this fictional mendoza line and which ones would be below it. Which goes to a point I have made in a few posts in some similar threads in the past, it isn't simply about spending the $$$, it's doing so wisely as well.

Is it the ACC conference's office fault that TV ratings for their football games are valued significantly less than SEC football games and B1G football games or is it the product that was put on the field prior to the last contract being negotiated? And if the latter, who was responsible for that - the conference or the individual programs within it?

What do some of you think the conference can realisticly do to hope to match the Greater 2 without kicking some programs to the curb or pine away for the likes of ND, Texas and/or Oklahoma joining the ACC? This point keeps getting lost on so many in these type of threads. At least Big East football fans understood the target to try and overtake was the ACC, not the SEC and the B1G. IMHO, the focus should be on getting us clearly above the B12 and the PAC before even worrying about the Greater 2 who are simply way out of reach at this point in time and will likely remain so for decades.

Heck, at this point in time it could be argued that ACC conference football games are valued less than the B12 games despite the fact that the ratings have been higher and that both conferences only have two programs with 80K plus stadiums and basically the same percentage of teams with stadiums in the 60-66K size stadiums range (5 in the ACC and 3 in the B12).

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(02-16-2016 05:15 PM)nole Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 05:05 PM)omniorange Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 04:44 PM)nole Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 10:11 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  Nole, I agree that the growing revenue gap is a problem but I have a question for you on the doubling of the donation requirement at FSU, is it possible that that increase is caused by supply & demand? It is reasonable to assume that the demand for season football tickets would increase following a national championship run & with the great success of Jimbo.

Reasonable question, but no, that is NOT the case at FSU...not the reason for the increase.

It is simply a response to the increase revenue needs for football at this level

Perhaps, but would they do it if it was going to result in LESS $$$ which indicates to me that the demand must be there, correct?

Cheers,
Neil


It was done because FSU needs more revenue to stay at the highest level in football. The pressures for more football revenue are growing.


Simple as that.

It's a chicken or egg situation. Had the Noles performed like Miami over the past three seasons would this step have been taken? Perhaps? But if so, it would more than likely result in less revenue not more.

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(02-16-2016 05:08 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 04:52 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

Cool story...but that school generates more total revenue than Clempsum

You whine about a small town and being hard to generate attendance...but where are your students at? We have fans driving in from Rochester, Utica, Binghamton, etc...for basketball games and you can't get 5k to drive 30-40 mins from Greenville?

We had more students in Boston for the BC game than BC students...that is traveling 5 hours in sub zero conditions.

BTW, going to be around 40 in Cuse this weekend and rain...you wanna compare weather in July-August...the SC Midlands is hideous in the summer.

Well maybe there is something to money not being everything then because it sure hasn't helped Syracuse accomplish much of anything of note since joining the ACC except embarrass the rest of us by being put on probation.

July-August can have some hot days, but when you are an hour and a half from the beach or an hour and a half away from the mountains it's not that bad. That or just get in the boat in one of the many lakes in the area.

How long does it take to escape the Siberia of the ACC and enjoy the outdoors without risking frostbite?

Cuse has won 2 national championships this year...a good possibility of a few more.
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(02-16-2016 07:10 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 05:08 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 04:52 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  
(02-16-2016 02:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I find it hilarious to be preached to about attendance by a fan of a school who even if you combine total attendance for both football and basketball it still doesn't equal just our football attendance.

Cool story...but that school generates more total revenue than Clempsum

You whine about a small town and being hard to generate attendance...but where are your students at? We have fans driving in from Rochester, Utica, Binghamton, etc...for basketball games and you can't get 5k to drive 30-40 mins from Greenville?

We had more students in Boston for the BC game than BC students...that is traveling 5 hours in sub zero conditions.

BTW, going to be around 40 in Cuse this weekend and rain...you wanna compare weather in July-August...the SC Midlands is hideous in the summer.

Well maybe there is something to money not being everything then because it sure hasn't helped Syracuse accomplish much of anything of note since joining the ACC except embarrass the rest of us by being put on probation.

July-August can have some hot days, but when you are an hour and a half from the beach or an hour and a half away from the mountains it's not that bad. That or just get in the boat in one of the many lakes in the area.

How long does it take to escape the Siberia of the ACC and enjoy the outdoors without risking frostbite?

Cuse has won 2 national championships this year...a good possibility of a few more.

Congrats for your Connect Four and UNO championships. I'm sure the money is rolling in from season ticket sales for next year.
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[quote='Lou_C' pid='13006385' dateline='1455583555']
There's a lot of good stuff in this post. At the end of the day, I believe the ACC really has the potential to be the best possible conference for FSU, for a lot of reasons mentioned, and some others. I think most FSU fans would be most pleased to stay in the ACC if it can work.

However, these points are just not well supportable...
3. The ACC is a great athletics conference, and we should really own up to it. I'm not saying that fans need to become arrogant or start chanting "ACC, ACC" all the time, but when are we ever going to put away the mindset that we're the weakest of the major conferences and accept the fact that in reality, the conference is thriving in essentially every sport. I mean, think about it, ACC schools have won the national championship in football, basketball, and baseball all within the past 2-3 years! This year alone ACC teams competed in the national championship in all 3 of those sports, not to mention our incredible success in the olympic sports!


This is mostly right...but there's an extreme recency bias. 3 years does not validate the performance of this conference. It went, what 50 years without a baseball title? It was the worst conference by far of the BCS football era. And even basketball when through a pretty long non-elite stretch. I agree, and have said many times, that the ACC has been ascendant in football, but let's not pretend that so far, it's still a total anomaly.

When was this stretch? You do realize that the ACC won half of the national championships between 2000 - 2010. It certainly wasn't the '80s or '90s.
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No doubt the ACC brass didn't do its better football playing members any good with the TV deal and the request for more exposure over more money. The whole Raycom deal screams of nepotism instead of a shrewed move to acquire the necessary infrastructure for an upcoming network. The only hope is that comes to fruition somehow. If a network isn't possible, then take the extra 3-4 mill per team and wait for the end of the contract. To get to that point, the ACC office should take care of the football bread winners. Zero cost to participants for the ACC championship game, zero cost for playoff participant. This should come out of the ACC conference share. I don't think unequal revenue sharing should be an option. Look what it did and is doing to the Big 12.

Once that contract runs out, NBC, Fox, ESPN, CBS Sports whomever should be listened to because unlike the last time, the ACC brass can come with a better football package. It will not be just FSU. And, if the revenue split is 80/20 football to basketball why settle for that split. Classic bball games are not just confined to UNC/Duke. Now there is UNC/'Ville and Duke/'Cuse. All of those games have been classics so far. Throw in UVa, ND, Pitt and the occasional State, FSU and Miami, the ACC brass should command a higher price for those match ups.

The ACC should make sure the scheduling is better for OOC football games. Make sure 'Ville, FSU, VaTech, Clemson, GaTech, etc get a cupcake or a bye prior to their SEC OOC game and/or tough OOC game. Also, time to maximize the ND games. If it allows for the ACC's national contender a stronger SOS, then push/pull some games. I know Pitt and BC have that history with ND and maybe Cuse, but why not strike while the iron is hot and redo the schedule so that our national title contenders get first crack at ND. In order words, get the best possible match ups so there is national interest. ND/Miami, ND/FSU, ND/Clemson, ND/Pitt, ND/BC, ND/Ville, ND/VaTech, ND/GaTech, the heavest rotation should go to the best teams and then ND get Wake, State, Duke, UVa, UNC. Match ups, match ups, match ups. Finally, if you haven't played an ACC team that you want to play, Schedule a home and home with that opponent. Case in point FSU/GaTech. Why not schedule a OOC home/home game with them when they are not on your ACC schedule? Is it really necessary to play another Sam Houston State? VaTech want to play 'Ville more, go that route. It will at least better your schedule strength.
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ND has already played FSU and Clemson on the road in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

The current ND/ACC deal mandates that ND cycle through the entire conference.
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(02-16-2016 08:16 PM)Indytarheel Wrote:  No doubt the ACC brass didn't do its better football playing members any good with the TV deal and the request for more exposure over more money. The whole Raycom deal screams of nepotism instead of a shrewed move to acquire the necessary infrastructure for an upcoming network. The only hope is that comes to fruition somehow. If a network isn't possible, then take the extra 3-4 mill per team and wait for the end of the contract. To get to that point, the ACC office should take care of the football bread winners. Zero cost to participants for the ACC championship game, zero cost for playoff participant. This should come out of the ACC conference share. I don't think unequal revenue sharing should be an option. Look what it did and is doing to the Big 12.

Once that contract runs out, NBC, Fox, ESPN, CBS Sports whomever should be listened to because unlike the last time, the ACC brass can come with a better football package. It will not be just FSU. And, if the revenue split is 80/20 football to basketball why settle for that split. Classic bball games are not just confined to UNC/Duke. Now there is UNC/'Ville and Duke/'Cuse. All of those games have been classics so far. Throw in UVa, ND, Pitt and the occasional State, FSU and Miami, the ACC brass should command a higher price for those match ups.

The ACC should make sure the scheduling is better for OOC football games. Make sure 'Ville, FSU, VaTech, Clemson, GaTech, etc get a cupcake or a bye prior to their SEC OOC game and/or tough OOC game. Also, time to maximize the ND games. If it allows for the ACC's national contender a stronger SOS, then push/pull some games. I know Pitt and BC have that history with ND and maybe Cuse, but why not strike while the iron is hot and redo the schedule so that our national title contenders get first crack at ND. In order words, get the best possible match ups so there is national interest. ND/Miami, ND/FSU, ND/Clemson, ND/Pitt, ND/BC, ND/Ville, ND/VaTech, ND/GaTech, the heavest rotation should go to the best teams and then ND get Wake, State, Duke, UVa, UNC. Match ups, match ups, match ups. Finally, if you haven't played an ACC team that you want to play, Schedule a home and home with that opponent. Case in point FSU/GaTech. Why not schedule a OOC home/home game with them when they are not on your ACC schedule? Is it really necessary to play another Sam Houston State? VaTech want to play 'Ville more, go that route. It will at least better your schedule strength.

+1. Good ideas.
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Great post, you should be the ACC Commish.

I would only adjust one point that you mentioned. The ACC already has unequal situation....Notre Dame.

Once that deal was made, the argument that everything is 100% equal in the ACC died. The ACC needs to start rewarding the producers for teams who bring in revenue (so no, sorry folks that win field hockey national titles, you don't get extra cash).


(02-16-2016 08:16 PM)Indytarheel Wrote:  No doubt the ACC brass didn't do its better football playing members any good with the TV deal and the request for more exposure over more money. The whole Raycom deal screams of nepotism instead of a shrewed move to acquire the necessary infrastructure for an upcoming network. The only hope is that comes to fruition somehow. If a network isn't possible, then take the extra 3-4 mill per team and wait for the end of the contract. To get to that point, the ACC office should take care of the football bread winners. Zero cost to participants for the ACC championship game, zero cost for playoff participant. This should come out of the ACC conference share. I don't think unequal revenue sharing should be an option. Look what it did and is doing to the Big 12.

Once that contract runs out, NBC, Fox, ESPN, CBS Sports whomever should be listened to because unlike the last time, the ACC brass can come with a better football package. It will not be just FSU. And, if the revenue split is 80/20 football to basketball why settle for that split. Classic bball games are not just confined to UNC/Duke. Now there is UNC/'Ville and Duke/'Cuse. All of those games have been classics so far. Throw in UVa, ND, Pitt and the occasional State, FSU and Miami, the ACC brass should command a higher price for those match ups.

The ACC should make sure the scheduling is better for OOC football games. Make sure 'Ville, FSU, VaTech, Clemson, GaTech, etc get a cupcake or a bye prior to their SEC OOC game and/or tough OOC game. Also, time to maximize the ND games. If it allows for the ACC's national contender a stronger SOS, then push/pull some games. I know Pitt and BC have that history with ND and maybe Cuse, but why not strike while the iron is hot and redo the schedule so that our national title contenders get first crack at ND. In order words, get the best possible match ups so there is national interest. ND/Miami, ND/FSU, ND/Clemson, ND/Pitt, ND/BC, ND/Ville, ND/VaTech, ND/GaTech, the heavest rotation should go to the best teams and then ND get Wake, State, Duke, UVa, UNC. Match ups, match ups, match ups. Finally, if you haven't played an ACC team that you want to play, Schedule a home and home with that opponent. Case in point FSU/GaTech. Why not schedule a OOC home/home game with them when they are not on your ACC schedule? Is it really necessary to play another Sam Houston State? VaTech want to play 'Ville more, go that route. It will at least better your schedule strength.
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(02-17-2016 09:17 AM)nole Wrote:  I would only adjust one point that you mentioned. The ACC already has unequal situation....Notre Dame.

Once that deal was made, the argument that everything is 100% equal in the ACC died. The ACC needs to start rewarding the producers for teams who bring in revenue (so no, sorry folks that win field hockey national titles, you don't get extra cash).

Some combination of guaranteed base revenue plus performance-based incentives would be a good way to go, IMO. Maybe split the TV money equally but give extra shares for bowls and the football championship game to the participants (and to be fair, do the same for basketball, baseball, and any other profitable sport).

EDIT: The more I thought about it, since the ACC CG is limited to 2 ACC teams only, that money needs to be split. Bowls and NCAA Tournament bids are not like that, however, so they could be performance-based.

Basically, there needs to be incentives for winning NON-CONFERENCE games.
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