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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1261068, member: 27"] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff8000]SU News[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][URL='http://www.nunesmagician.com/2015/1/14/7541349/syracuse-football-what-is-the-orange-program-worth-more-than-you-might-think-wsj-value-money']Syracuse Rated 48th in Terms of Football Program Worth (TNIAAM; Cassillo)[/URL][/B] [I]Syracuse football is a valuable commodity. That may sound ridiculous right about now, coming off a 3-9 season in which we pretty much hated the product on the field and USA Today was happy to give us a (deserved) [URL='http://t.co/2ytQibLMKV']D-minus grade[/URL]. But believe it or not, the Orange are actually worth something -- if they could be bought, that is. The Wall Street Journal [URL='http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-your-college-team-worth-1421081367']published the interesting work[/URL] late Monday, detailing Indiana University-Purdue University assistant professor Ryan Brewer's study of what college football programs are "worth" on [URL='http://www.sbnation.com/british-open']the open[/URL] market. Obviously this isn't a system that truly exists -- you can't buy or sell football programs the way you can franchises -- however, it's still fun to see where each school stacks up so you can do some nonsensical shouting about "bragging rights." Don't worry, we'll get there... But first, Syracuse. The Orange [B]finished 48th overall[/B] in the rankings, with an estimated program revenue of $39,447,454 to go along with an intrinsic value of $137,570,000 (rankings are based on that second number). Brewer defines that second figure as estimated using fundamental analysis -- including on-field performance, stadium size, state-by-state growth rates, cash flow, revenues and NFL programs' financial information. So these are long-term investment evaluations, basically. ...[/I] [/QUOTE]

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