Expansion Targets: By the numbers

[Kiyoat Husker]

I was curious how the expansion schools compared to the existing B1G in a number of categories, so I looked it up and put it into a spreadsheet. I realize that there are numerous factors that make a school desirable or feasible that cannot be itemized on a list, but there are some interesting facts on these lists:

 

University Ranking by US World News 2013:

 

Duke 8

Northwestern 12

Notre Dame 17

Vanderbilt 17

Virginia 24

Michigan 29

North Carolina 30

Boston College 31

Georgia Tech 36

Wisconsin 41

Texas 46

Penn State 46

Illinois 46

Ohio State 56

Syracuse 58

Maryland 58

Pittsburgh 58

Connecticut 63

Purdue 65

Rutgers 68

Minnesota 68

Iowa 72

Michigan State 72

Indiana 83

Florida State 97

Missouri 97

Nebraska 101

Kansas 106

 

Also keep in mind that this ranking includes many schools outside of the 120 FBS Football schools, so a ranking of 101 is not terrible, although I hope Nebraska improves on this as we transition to the B1G.

 

I'm not sure of all the metrics they used for this ranking, but I think ACT/SAT scores, quality of faculty, academic reputation, research profile, stuff like that. The webpage may say more about it:

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

[Kiyoat Husker]

Size of Endowment in 2012 (in billions)

 

Texas 18.26 (system-wide)

Michigan 7.69

Northwestern 7.12

Notre Dame 6.33

Duke 5.55

Virginia 4.79

Vanderbilt 3.4

Pittsburgh 2.62

Minnesota 2.49

Ohio State 2.37

North Carolina 2.18

Purdue 1.92 (system-wide)

Wisconsin 1.81

Penn State 1.78

Illinois 1.67 (system-wide)

Boston College 1.65

Georgia Tech 1.61

Indiana 1.58 (system-wide)

Michigan State 1.41

Nebraska 1.22 (system-wide)

Kansas 1.18 (system-wide)

Missouri 1.17 (system-wide)

Syracuse

Maryland

Connecticut

Rutgers

Iowa

Florida State

 

The ones at the bottom had less than a billion in endowments, and didn't appear on the list I used (Wikipedia)

[Kiyoat Husker]

Athletic Dept Revenue 2012:

(private schools did not report)

 

Duke private

Northwestern private

Notre Dame private

Vanderbilt private

Boston College private

Pittsburgh private

Syracuse private

 

 

Texas 150

Ohio State 132

Michigan 123

Penn State 116

Wisconsin 96

Iowa 93

Michigan State 85

Nebraska 84

Minnesota 79

Virginia 78

Illinois 78

Florida State 78

North Carolina 76

Kansas 75

Indiana 71

Purdue 66

Missouri 64

Connecticut 63

Maryland 62

Rutgers 60

Georgia Tech 54

 

Georgia Tech was a suprise to me here. They must be a smaller university, but I thought they had more fan support.

 

Would be nice to get the private school data. I am assuming ND has a big budget.

[Kiyoat Husker]

Football win percent 1992-2012

 

Ohio State 1

Florida State 3

Nebraska 4

Texas 6

Michigan 11

Wisconsin 14

Notre Dame 23

Boston College 31

Georgia Tech 33

Iowa 35

Virginia 36

Michigan State 45

Syracuse 48

North Carolina 50

Missouri 55

Purdue 60

Northwestern 63

Pittsburgh 65

Maryland 68

Penn State 75

Kansas 76

Rutgers 78

Minnesota 82

Illinois 85

Indiana 95

Vanderbilt 98

Duke 105

 

UConn not included because of the timeline.

This one is Ranking out of all the 120 schools, so Duke and Vandy really are that bad.

Penn State seems like it should be higher, not sure what is going on there.

 

I couldn't find a good resource for ranking the schools on basketball, but I guess that is only really a factor for a handful of BB Revenue-producing schools like Duke Kansas and UNC.

[Kiyoat Husker]

Let me know if you think of another way I can rank these schools .....

 

 

 

 

... (setting up a joke)...

[huKSer]

College Marching Bands Ranked

Bands from the ACC, Big XII, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-10, SEC, Major Independents, and certain chosen other schools were included in the rankings. The rankings include both playing ability, and formations, along with other aspects like uniforms, noise level, instrumentation, etc.

 

67 Baylor

66 Iowa State

65 Temple

64 Washington State

63 West Virginia

62 Kansas State

61 Pittsburgh

60 Oregon State

59 Connecticut

58 Duke

57 South Carolina

56 Nebraska

55 Virginia Tech

54 Wake Forest

53 Cincinnati

52 Stanford

51 Washington

50 Kentucky

49 Syracuse

48 Miami FL

47 Arizona

46 Oklahoma State

45 Maryland

44 Rutgers

43 Texas Tech

42 Boston College

41 Tennessee

40 Northwestern

39 North Carolina

38 Mississippi

37 Mississippi State

36 Florida State

35 Oklahoma

34 Kansas

33 Auburn

32 Alabama

31 Missouri

30 Georgia

29 Colorado

28 Arizona State

27 Penn State

26 LSU

25 California

24 Virginia

23 Vanderbilt

22 Florida

21 Oregon

20 Minnesota

19 UCLA

18 Iowa

17 NC State

16 Army

15 Arkansas

14 Illinois

13 Georgia Tech

12 Texas

11 USC

10 Indiana

9 Navy

8 Wisconsin

7 Purdue

6 Texas A&M

5 Clemson

4 Notre Dame

3 Michigan

2 Michigan State

1 Ohio State

 

rogerfweber23.tripod.com/.../marchingbandsranked1.doc

[WoodyHayes1951]

The Best Damn Band In The Land

 

I'm shocked someone else besides me has Sparty that high. I'd probably put them as #3 behind the Irish band.

 

 

That Texas endowment is misleading. It's big but that figure is the entire U of Texas system not UT-Austin.

 

It would be kinda like me adding up U of California-Los Angeles, U of California-Berkeley, U of California-Santa Barbara,etc all together and claiming UC-San Diego has a 20 Billion endowment.

[Kiyoat Husker]

56th-ranked band? No wonder the AAU dropped us. Even newcomers Maryland and Rutgers have us beat. Ouch.

 

fixed the endowments list to add "system-wide" to several of the schools (including Nebraska). Not exactly apples-to apples, but however you slice it Bevo brings a massive endowment to go along with its massive Athletic budget and massive ego. To be clear, TAMU has its own separate system of Universities, and Cal is also listed as a system-wide entry. They just split the Regent money from the foundation money with Cal(whatever the h@ll that means)