How Much Is Boston College Football Worth?
by Brian Favat on Jan 6, 2012 2:30 PM EST
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PrintThe Wall Street Journal's Darren Everson took a look at a recent study by Indiana University finance professor Ryan Brewer, who calculated the intrinsic value for 115 of the 120 programs in Division I-A (with apologies to Air Force, Navy, Tulane, Tulsa and Wake Forest). The results are hardly surprising.
We all know that there is a massive divide between programs from BCS automatic qualifying conferences and the rest of Division I-A, but Brewer's valuations illustrate an even wider gap among programs in BCS AQ conferences.
Of the 115 teams in the study, 89 of them -- Boston College included -- are worth less than $180 million. On the other end of the spectrum, 13 programs are worth over $400 million with 10 of those programs coming from either the SEC or the Big Ten.
In the ACC, Florida State was the most valuable college football program with a valuation of $267.0 million, good for 20th best nationally. Virginia Tech comes in second with a valuation of $212.9 million. In the 100 million ACC club are Clemson ($179.9, 27th), North Carolina ($126.6, 38), N.C. State ($122.2, 40), Miami ($121.7m, 41), and Georgia Tech ($108.2, 49).
Boston College ranks 9th in conference and 58th nationally with a valuation of $74.5 million, ahead of only Maryland ($63.5 million) and Duke ($48.4 million). ACC newcomers Pittsburgh ($61.9 million) and Syracuse ($53.8 million) ranked 64th and 66th nationally, respectively, ranking higher than only Duke in conference (and likely Wake Forest).
The study examines factors such as revenues and expenses, adjusting for cash-flow and risk factors, as well as a projection for future growth (which for BC could have been a negative coefficient).
If only it was as simple as raising $75 million dollars and taking ownership of the Boston College football program, we could make some real positive changes on the Heights.
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The valuation much have been conducted before UConn took a $3 million dollar bath on last years Fiesta Bowl.
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Wow
So many trollish things for me to say…
2011 National Champs in Men's Basketball
FIRE DeLEONE
Eat a bagel (like a mumu)
18-1
1967: Embrace it
Beyond that
Wasn’t there another financial study done that had UConn way way way at the bottom?
2011 National Champs in Men's Basketball
FIRE DeLEONE
Eat a bagel (like a mumu)
18-1
1967: Embrace it
Last Night's Under Armour High School Star Game
The number of incoming recruits of the 4 and 5 star variety pack that are now BC’s new ACC playmates—- and some peer friends for your viewing pleasure - with a whole host of solid players yet to decide:
FSU – 6
Miami -3
Clemson -3
ND -1
Stanford -1
TCU – 1
Maryland -1
Duke – 1
THE GREAT SPAZOO!!! – 0
Very few 4 star players in last 4 BC classes.
BC is now offcially under ARMORED for the new BCS battles.
I feel like George C. Scott in the greatest movie ever made in Dr. Strangelove and written by the late great Stanley Kubrick with my dire recruiting warnings.
The Recruiting “MINESHAFT GAP” is getting deeper and soon the the point of no return will be reached where the "TALENT GAP’ will be to great to overcome.
At least we have the defensive catatonic calzone cushion that has been riddled in big games over the last 15 years!
I thought all three Clemson UAAA HS recruits had already decommitted as a result of the Orange Bowl beatdown to West Virginia? #eagleosprey’d
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pretty sure he was a kicker though
"The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty f*^@ing cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?"
- Bill Hicks (another dead hero)
by YouNoleIt on Jan 7, 2012 12:53 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
You think a recruit has to be 4-star or 5-star to succeed at BC?
Luke Kuechly (3-star), Montel Harris (2-star), Anthony Castonzo (2-star), Mark Herzlich (3-star), B.J. Raji (2-star), and Matt Ryan (3-star) all send their warm regards.
All true FootB,,, BUT....
All schools have that same progression and tons of 3 star and below kids make All American and the NFL.
We are talking about the odds, percentages, depth, talent, speed and now…CFA is a huge business.
2 BIg Boy Bowl games in 70 years tells me BC has always been a failure?
We were close in 2007, but bad coaching and depth could not take us to New Orleans.
I want National Titles and be in the ACC Title hunt every year.
We are miles away from that now and sinking deeper into the malaise abyss.
The talent coming into BC has slipped from your post and those guys will become fewer and fewer.
How many of the above guys were Spaz as HC recruits? Only Kuechly, technically, right? But wasn’t he recruited by Jags coaches?
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Announcing!! The new "Light the Brian Favat World Fund!"
Yes kids, all we need is a mere $75M, -- not the $1.5B that Neenan was looking for!!
Neenan and his loser “Night Before Christmas” poem theme he stole from me and my annual poem about the idiots in the Football Athletic Office!!
It’s now…
THE NIGHT BEFORE KICKOFFS ON SOUTH STREET!!
Here is the math, since I went to the SOM, AND… I am semi-qualified -—you know when BC had commuters!
You know commuter kids …. who could sadly not afford room and board and now BC insults them!
Yup it’s KEGS AND KEGS ON SOUTH STREET!!!
For a $1,000 admission price before each of our 7 home games, you can drink beer and mingle with the BC babes and alumni “Cougars” Moms !!
Yup, let me do some ciphering here since again…..I am qualified…
7 Home Games X 11,000 tickets and bingo we got $75 very large and our Brian Favat is the new AD CZAR!!!
BC Coeds admitted FREE! (Yeah, please no brainer!)
Back then you needed the jaws of life to get to third base with a Kirkwood coed, but now it’s…
………..BC CATHOLIC GIRLS GONE WILD!!!
Brian Favat will become……THE…..All powerful, ominpotent Athletic Director CZAR!!!
……and I become his lunch boy go-fer Veals on Wheels Van #1 and of course….secret liasion to all the BC coed athletes for special guidance and tutoring!
My guess is Father Hanrahan comes out of retirement and sends me back to my Texas hell hole during freshman orientation week, but I am older and sneakier now!
Let’s us all bow and pray and ask the Baby Jesus to make BF our BFF AD CZAR and save us Eagles from an everlasting hell on earth with Gene DeFilippo and his stooge Spazoo.
The first round is on me….if my wife says it’s OK….and I can go…. and don’t embarrass her……
Me?
Veals on Wheels
The Maintenance Staff Veal Parms are delivered every Thursday. I even added a nice fried calamari appetizer
Please Brian, don’t insult my lunch boy go-fer talents!
For my first order of business, we will be expanding Alumni Stadium from 44,500 to 60,000. Spaz and Gene can supervise the construction crew.
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Don't Our Newtonian Guards Control Capacity?
Alumni needs a major renovation of luxury boxes and so does Conte.
I say we Light the World and build a $1.2B retractable dome on St. John’s land like Jerry did in Arlington!
BCS Bowls, Super Bowls, recruiting magnet.
Tonight 85K + down the street for the Cotton Bowls.
People of the Pig all over town throwing around $5.00 bills like they were $10.00 bills!
Imagine our 85,000-seat Jerry (York) World floating in the middle of the Reservoir.
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Surrounded by...Our NCAA Yachting Championship Trophies!!
Maybe we could bring in the Somali Pirates and have a Holiday Sea Dog Sailing Tournament!
Holiday Hockey Tourney??? BAH!!!
Pirates vs. Prisses!
Yup BC kids, it’s those elite BC Darien Conneticut Yacht Club Coeds, Muffy, Buffy, Tuffy, Lacey, Stacey, Jacey, Tracey, Casey, Macey and Shawanda going against those pesky and slippery Somali Pirates for the first annual “Heights Hostage Holiday Regatta!”
Those Somali thugs dressed in black and our BC gals looking slick in our new maroon and gold (real gold threads) Dolce and Gabbana uniforms with matching Hermes athletic bags and matching maroon topsiders!!
I am sure some radical left wing bleeding BC socialist extremist will get the Somali kids political asylum and a new home!
Hey, if any of them can run a 4.25 40, then let them play bump and run for McGovern!!!
Stars for college football recruiting are a crapshoot. It is good to have a few high stars sprinkled in, but most of our 4 star or higher recruits have been busts or transferred. It is all about finding hard workers who have athletic ability and can learn the game. What ever happened to that four star lineman we have from Miami, has he seen the field yet? Or the TE from Minn who spurned Oklahoma for BC, he rarely played either.
4* are kept on bench
They think who they are. And that ain’t right.
Got it. (it was all Spaz talk)
by eagleosprey on Jan 6, 2012 10:09 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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