Here is an update for some stats from the season so far after the Cincinnati game. Offense Points Per Game: 35.3 (ACC Rank: 4th, Nat’l Rank: 26th) High: 48 Low: 28 Rushing Yards: 140.3 (ACC Rank: 9th, Nat’l Rank: 74th) Passing Yards: 263.0 (ACC Rank: 3rd, Nat’l Rank: 28th) Total Offense: 403.3 (ACC Rank: 7th, […]
Stat of the Day
NC State Football By The Numbers (Plus A Few News Items)
Before Thursday night’s matchup with Cincy I thought I’d share some stats from the season so far plus a few random football news items. I will try to make this a regular feature and make updates after each game. Offense Points Per Game: 38.0 High: 48 Low: 28 Rushing Yards: 131.5 Passing Yards: 228.0 Total […]
2010 ACC Age, Experience, & Talent (AET) Index
The AET Index is a quantifiable look at the each ACC team in 5 different categories: Class Size (Percentage of team that are Jr/Sr) Returning Starters (Percentage of starters that are returning from previous year(s)) Returning Lettermen (Percentage of players who have received a Letter) Depth Chart (Percent of 2-deep players who are Jr/Sr) Talent […]
Financing College Athletics – Part 5
CONTINUING WITH A LOOK AT NC STATE FINANCES Part 4 focused on a number of good things concerning financing athletics at NC State: – $180M of facility improvements since 1999 – Outstanding attendance for both football and basketball, even though the product on the field/court leaves a lot to be desired. But one area where […]
Financing College Athletics – Part 4
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES – The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides […]
TOB vs CMFBD
Joe Giglio has been hard at work compiling a ‘by the numbers’ analysis comparing NC State’s Tom O’Brien with UNC’s Chief *# Butch Davis. The two points I can make for Coach O’Brien are: (1) I am very glad he gets to play Carolina every year! (2) Is there something we can do to get […]
Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
The Directors’ Cup is defined on their website as “A program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA.†All-Time (1994 to 2010) […]
Football Stat of the Day
The CAPITAL SPORTS REPORT blog is becoming a nice source of information and commentary that I enjoy. You can click here for their Twitter page. In this link, the blog takes a quick look at the statistically historical nature of the 2010 NC State football season. I also was appreciative of the respect the author […]
Financing College Sports – Part 3
SFN: This entry is too good to get lost in the middle of a lot of the news that we’ve had breaking in recent days, so we are moving it back to the front of the blog to make sure that the community sees it. If your attitude going into this latest entry on financing […]
Financing College Sports – Part One (Major update & additions 10:30am)
This piece is the first in a series of related entries that I am doing to discuss the funding behind big-time college athletics. At a minimum, I intend to break down the articles along these lines: (1) Introduction and Organizational Analysis (this entry): (2) A Closer Look at the Numbers (3) Athletic Dept finances across […]
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