I'm not sure about these valuations and it's certainly eye opening to see some of the programs listed where they are. (Kansas State? Washington?)
That said, I looked at this and thought of it in the current context of VT football as: This is what Frank Beamer built.
Without him, we aren't even on this list. He took over a fledgling company and built it into a $270M empire. His Board of Directors helped him a lot and the successor was effectively identified. But much of the value of this program is from Frank himself.
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I wonder how much net revenue USC keeps from the city of Los Angeles because they don't have their own stadium? Also their alumni base is fairly small and the PAC-12's expansion prospects are more limited than the eastern conferences.
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I was just trying to make a point about the list to back up the USC comment from earlier. VT is the only one I would want to buy, making it worth the most to me, but I'm biased.
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Brewer analyzed each program's revenues and expenses and made cash-flow adjustments, risk assessments and growth projections to calculate what a college team would be worth on the open market, if it could be bought and sold like a professional franchise.
Overall, the value of Football Bowl Subdivision teams has dropped 1.8% on average from last year despite cash flows increasing 18% and revenues growing 9.6% year over year. The reasons for the drop were concerns about concussions and football's safety, declining youth football participation, lack of resolution over pay-for-play concerns, and the scheduling of the College Football Playoff, which saw ratings for the semifinals fall by nearly 40% when played on New Year's Eve this year, as opposed to New Year's Day. Ohio State's value dipped from more than $1.1 billion last year while the Buckeyes are also the lone team now worth more than $900 million, down from four such teams a year ago.
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I'd take the present and future value of the Bills' share of the NFL's shared revenue over Ohio State's NPV & FV of a football share of the Big 10's shared revenue.
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If Clemson wins it all tonight, I imagine their value would bump up a bit.
Just glad to see we are ahead of LOLUVA.
And UNC.
Twice.
no wonder Texas is a little tighty with their performance.
I'm not sure about these valuations and it's certainly eye opening to see some of the programs listed where they are. (Kansas State? Washington?)
That said, I looked at this and thought of it in the current context of VT football as:
This is what Frank Beamer built.
Without him, we aren't even on this list. He took over a fledgling company and built it into a $270M empire. His Board of Directors helped him a lot and the successor was effectively identified. But much of the value of this program is from Frank himself.
As a finance guy, I like this.
Jim Weaver also should get some credit as the effective CFO for the growth years.
One thing he did really well was keeping everything within budget.
Which is partially what allowed us to build what we have and do what we have done.
I guess it turns out that VT is a national brand, after all.
Why is USC so low?
Private school, less information. I would treat that list with lots of skepticism
I wonder how much net revenue USC keeps from the city of Los Angeles because they don't have their own stadium? Also their alumni base is fairly small and the PAC-12's expansion prospects are more limited than the eastern conferences.
North Carolina is listed twice...
#40 and #50...
Wonder if this was the report that tipped the NCAA that they may have an academic scandal..
#40 is NC State. It's either a typo or it got cut off in the table.
TCU and Baylor should be embarrassed to be so far behind LOLUva they can't even make the list.
In defense of both schools, their history of success is shorter than ours, which is not long in the scheme of college football.
Both are private schools, information could easily be off. Do you really think VT is worth more than USC?
I was just trying to make a point about the list to back up the USC comment from earlier. VT is the only one I would want to buy, making it worth the most to me, but I'm biased.
Baylor right now is (sort of) where we was ten years ago., IMHO.
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VT is going to be worth a lot more when I win Powerball this week. #amirite
#sauces 5 million gets you naming rights.
Hmm... would you buy anOSU @ nearly $950M or the Buffalo Bills @ $1.4B?
Nobody. Circles the Wagons. Like the Buffalo Bills.
I'd take the present and future value of the Bills' share of the NFL's shared revenue over Ohio State's NPV & FV of a football share of the Big 10's shared revenue.
As soon as I realized that South Carolina is above Southern Cal I no longer trust his estimates.