Re: Forbes: Texas "most valuable" in 2009
Steve Cutchen
> Team, team 2009 value. 8 SEC teams, 5 B10 teams, 1 Pac10 team:
>
> 1) Texas, $118m
> 2) Notre Dame, $108m
> 3) Penn State, $99m
> 4) Nebraska, $93m
> 5) Alabama, $92m
> 6) Florida, $88m
> 7) LSU, $86m
> 8) tOSU, $85m
> 9) Georgia, $84m
> 10)Oklahoma, $83m
> 11) Michigan, $81m
> 12) South Carolina, $80m
> 13) Tennessee, $78m
> 14) Auburn, $70m
> 15) USC, $68m
> 16) MSU, $57m
> 17) Arkansas, $56m
> 18) Texas AM, $52m
> 19) Wisconsin, $48m
> 20) Ok State, $47m
Seems to refute Bellomy's contention that atm is gonna pass OUsucks
because they have more $$.
Sum of top 5:
SEC $430m, Big12 $393m, Big 10 $370M
Here's the text:
'Forbes': Texas Has College Football's Most Valuable Team
December 24, 2009 03:35 PM ET
The University of Texas has a big moneymaker coming in 2010. You know,
the BCS National Championship game, which has an expected payout of
more than $31 million. But it turns out that Texas making bank from the
BCS title game is a lot like Bill Gates making money from a new
skyrocketing stock.
Why? Well, the University of Texas program is the most valuable in
college football, Forbes reports. The team generated $82 million last
season. The biggest bits of the breakdown are astonishing: $33 million
in ticket sales, $30 million from donations, $1 million from Nike, and
close to $1 million in sponsorship payments from Coca-Cola and
Gatorade. All those numbers add up to Texas being the most valuable
team in college football, worth a whopping $119 million, the report
says.
Notre Dame is the second most valuable football program, valued at $108
million. But the Fighting Irish reportedly have a high ceiling for
growth. "If and when Notre Dame chooses to leverage the football team,
it could make a lot more money," Louis Nanni, Notre Dame's vice
president for university relations, tells Forbes. "We don't even have a
JumboTron."
Penn State, Nebraska, and Alabama round out Forbes's five most valuable
programs.
Eighteen of the 20 most valuable teams come from the Big Ten, Big 12,
and Southeastern conferences. (Notre Dame and Southern Cal are the two
that don't come from the big three conferences.)
Ron Blancarte
Keeping this in-state ...
Given the news of the summer/early fall about their academic to
athletic loan, you have a lot of points of contention about A&M's
ability to outspend other schools. The one thing that stood out to me
with the recent news about the loan was that A&M is expected to
operate in the red for the next two years. Any thoughts along those
lines?