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ACC Might Have to Make a Decision Regarding Satellite Camps (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
B1G and B12 Need Satellite Camps to Stay Relevant in College Football
NCAA President Mark Emmert said a lot of different things on Thursday morning. Some of those things were important, while others weren't. File this under important.
For awhile now, the ACC and SEC have been calling for a revision of the NCAA's rules around "satellite camps" -- football camps, hosted by college coaches for high school prospects. Current rules say that a school can't HOST a camp outside of a 50-mile radius around its campus. But there are no current stipulations about "guest coaching." The ACC and SEC have specific language that forbids it. The Big Ten and Big 12 do not, and take full advantage of that. This presents a problem that the NCAA plans to addressin oversight committee meetings very soon.
According to a conversation with ESPN's Heather Dinnich on Thursday, ACC commissioner John Swofford is ready to support a rule to more strictly regulate these camps, but is also willing to roll with the punches if the NCAA fails to get enough support for such a ruling:
"Right now we intend to keep our conference agreement [with the SEC] as is and push for a national rule that prohibits it. We just don't feel like it's a healthy part of the recruiting process in college football. We may have to ultimately reconsider it if the rules continue to allow it, because we're not going to put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage in recruiting if we were to feel like we were disadvantaged, but our primary purpose right now is to try to gain support for a national rule that prohibits it."
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College Football Playoff Brings More Millions to ACC (bizjournals.com; deBruyn)
The Atlantic Coast Conference — and by extension, its members — will see a nice revenue bump, thanks to the College Football Playoff.
Specifically, the ACC will see its bowl revenue increase 56 percent to $57.2 million. It was a blockbuster year for all of college football, as the inaugural four-team playoff helped generate $506 million for the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences mostly due to a $470 million-a-year television contract with ESPN.
In general, a line graph of the ACC’s total revenue in the past few years looks like the veritable hockey stick, increasing 39 percent — or $65 million — from 2011 to 2013, the most recent year with publicly available financial reports. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, the ACC generated $232 million, of which more than half came from its 15-year, $3.6 billion television deal with ESPN.
A further breakdown from fiscal 2013:
Here’s a breakdown by conference of $404.8 million paid out by the College Football Playoff after expenses. The tally also does not include a $2.3 million line item for other distributions:
Jimbo Fisher Believes ACC is the Second-Best Conference in the Country (orlandosentinel.com; Sonnone)
The ACC still doesn’t get enough respect as a conference, according to FSU coach Jimbo Fisher.
For at least the last year, Fisher has thumped his chest when talking about the ACC and has questioned why the league is not thought of in the same vein as the other Power 5 conferences. Pointing to a high rate of getting players drafted, Fisher has made the case that the ACC isn’t far behind the SEC.
“Look at the number of players drafted. I think we're in the top two leagues in the country,” Fisher said during the ACC coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday. “I think it's a bad rap we're getting in football. I think we consistently have had the second-best players, and it's only less than one per team behind the SEC.”
Fisher has a point. In 2014, the SEC produced the most draft picks per school, with 3.5. The ACC was second, with three picks per school in the conference,according to SB Nation.
Those in the ACC are certainly leery of how they’re perceived nationally. Warchant just did a nice story on two FSU trustees who recently expressed concern about ACC teams making the College Football Playoff in the future,hence pushing for the playoff to expand from four teams to eight.
"I think the perceived bias of the ACC in general, [with] Florida State falling to No. 4 in the rankings and still being undefeated and being [No.] 3 at the end of the season … a one-loss ACC team or two-loss ACC team is going to have a hard time breaking that top four," said Joe Gruters, a FSU trustee. "I think the top ACC team over the next four or five years, we're going to be in that [No.] 5 to 8 category. And we're going to be on the outside looking in."
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Ronald Edward 'Ron' Bee Was a Local Radio Personality on WOLF and B104.7 (PS; Duncan)
Ronald Edward 'Ron' "Big Daddy" Bee, 67, of Maricopa, Arizona, formerly of Liverpool,died Wednesday, March 18, 2015, in Seattle, Washington.He was part of the "Rick & Ron" duo on WOLF 1490 AM and had a long run as a morning host on B104.7 FM with Becky Palmer. In 2004, the duo received one of the nation's top honors: A Country Music Association Award for Best Radio Personality.
» Read Bee's full obituary
» View and sign Bee's online guest book
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Litter Overruns Syracuse, But It Wasn't Always This Way (PS; your letters)
To the Editor;
With all the clamor about Earth Day, and the amount of trash along the highways and byways in the Syracuse area, I would like to point out that it wasn't always this way.
The following is an excerpt from a book I published in 2006 about the history of the family business, Rochester Shoe Stores. The period the excerpt refers to is the 1940s and 1950s.
"The families tended to live in neighborhoods comprised mostly of their own nationalities. Communities of Irish, German, Italian, and Polish families developed between West Street and South Geddes Street. There was competition between the areas, but it was for all the right reasons. Immigrants from Europe and Ireland brought their sense of pride with them. This showed up in the condition of their homes and yards. Although most of the homes were small they always looked freshly painted, and the yards were decorated with flowers and veggie patches. There was no litter to be seen, and if a piece of paper did find itself curbside someone would pick it up before the day was over. The character, work ethic, and pride of the people who located in the west side of Syracuse would bode well for years of harmony and economic growth. The diversity of the area and how everyone got along is a story that should be told and re-told."
Mel Rubenstein
Manlius
Justin Bieber Fans Spread Rumor He is Engaged to Carol M Baldwin's Granddaughter (PS; Herbert)
Are Beliebers bored? Or just gullible?
Justin Bieber fans sparked a Twitter meltdown on Thursday when they spread an Internet rumor that he's engaged to Hailey Baldwin, his longtime friend and the granddaughter of Central New York breast cancer fundraiser Carol M. Baldwin.
#CongratsJustinAndHailey became a worldwide trending topic as social media users shared photos allegedly showing the 18-year-old model, whose father is actorStephen Baldwin, wearing a diamond engagement ring.
One image appeared to be a Snapchat screenshot from Hailey, saying "Thanks Bieber," with a TMZ logo wrapped over the image. Another claimed to be a screenshot from the 21-year-old pop singer's Instagram account, showing a couple saying their wedding vows with the caption "soon."
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ACC Might Have to Make a Decision Regarding Satellite Camps (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
B1G and B12 Need Satellite Camps to Stay Relevant in College Football
NCAA President Mark Emmert said a lot of different things on Thursday morning. Some of those things were important, while others weren't. File this under important.
For awhile now, the ACC and SEC have been calling for a revision of the NCAA's rules around "satellite camps" -- football camps, hosted by college coaches for high school prospects. Current rules say that a school can't HOST a camp outside of a 50-mile radius around its campus. But there are no current stipulations about "guest coaching." The ACC and SEC have specific language that forbids it. The Big Ten and Big 12 do not, and take full advantage of that. This presents a problem that the NCAA plans to addressin oversight committee meetings very soon.
According to a conversation with ESPN's Heather Dinnich on Thursday, ACC commissioner John Swofford is ready to support a rule to more strictly regulate these camps, but is also willing to roll with the punches if the NCAA fails to get enough support for such a ruling:
"Right now we intend to keep our conference agreement [with the SEC] as is and push for a national rule that prohibits it. We just don't feel like it's a healthy part of the recruiting process in college football. We may have to ultimately reconsider it if the rules continue to allow it, because we're not going to put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage in recruiting if we were to feel like we were disadvantaged, but our primary purpose right now is to try to gain support for a national rule that prohibits it."
...
College Football Playoff Brings More Millions to ACC (bizjournals.com; deBruyn)
The Atlantic Coast Conference — and by extension, its members — will see a nice revenue bump, thanks to the College Football Playoff.
Specifically, the ACC will see its bowl revenue increase 56 percent to $57.2 million. It was a blockbuster year for all of college football, as the inaugural four-team playoff helped generate $506 million for the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences mostly due to a $470 million-a-year television contract with ESPN.
In general, a line graph of the ACC’s total revenue in the past few years looks like the veritable hockey stick, increasing 39 percent — or $65 million — from 2011 to 2013, the most recent year with publicly available financial reports. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, the ACC generated $232 million, of which more than half came from its 15-year, $3.6 billion television deal with ESPN.
A further breakdown from fiscal 2013:
- Television: $147 million
- Football Bowl Games: $38 million
- NCAA Basketball Tournament: $18 million
- NCAA grants-in-aid-fund: $9 million
- ACC Basketball Tournament: $5 million
- Other: $15 million
Here’s a breakdown by conference of $404.8 million paid out by the College Football Playoff after expenses. The tally also does not include a $2.3 million line item for other distributions:
- Southeastern Conference: $71.4 million
- Pac-12 Conference: $68.9 million
- Big 12 Conference: $67.4 million
- Big Ten Conference: $61.3 million
- Atlantic Coast Conference: $57.2 million
- Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
- Conference USA: $15.2 million
- American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
- Mid-American Conference: $12 million
- Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million
- Independents: $2.8 million
Jimbo Fisher Believes ACC is the Second-Best Conference in the Country (orlandosentinel.com; Sonnone)
The ACC still doesn’t get enough respect as a conference, according to FSU coach Jimbo Fisher.
For at least the last year, Fisher has thumped his chest when talking about the ACC and has questioned why the league is not thought of in the same vein as the other Power 5 conferences. Pointing to a high rate of getting players drafted, Fisher has made the case that the ACC isn’t far behind the SEC.
“Look at the number of players drafted. I think we're in the top two leagues in the country,” Fisher said during the ACC coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday. “I think it's a bad rap we're getting in football. I think we consistently have had the second-best players, and it's only less than one per team behind the SEC.”
Fisher has a point. In 2014, the SEC produced the most draft picks per school, with 3.5. The ACC was second, with three picks per school in the conference,according to SB Nation.
Those in the ACC are certainly leery of how they’re perceived nationally. Warchant just did a nice story on two FSU trustees who recently expressed concern about ACC teams making the College Football Playoff in the future,hence pushing for the playoff to expand from four teams to eight.
"I think the perceived bias of the ACC in general, [with] Florida State falling to No. 4 in the rankings and still being undefeated and being [No.] 3 at the end of the season … a one-loss ACC team or two-loss ACC team is going to have a hard time breaking that top four," said Joe Gruters, a FSU trustee. "I think the top ACC team over the next four or five years, we're going to be in that [No.] 5 to 8 category. And we're going to be on the outside looking in."
...
Other
Ronald Edward 'Ron' Bee Was a Local Radio Personality on WOLF and B104.7 (PS; Duncan)
Ronald Edward 'Ron' "Big Daddy" Bee, 67, of Maricopa, Arizona, formerly of Liverpool,died Wednesday, March 18, 2015, in Seattle, Washington.He was part of the "Rick & Ron" duo on WOLF 1490 AM and had a long run as a morning host on B104.7 FM with Becky Palmer. In 2004, the duo received one of the nation's top honors: A Country Music Association Award for Best Radio Personality.
» Read Bee's full obituary
» View and sign Bee's online guest book
» See all of today's obituaries from syracuse.com
» View local and national obituaries on syracuse.com
If you have a suggestion for a feature obituary, please email the link and any other information you'd like to share to Brenda Duncan at bduncan@syracuse.com
Litter Overruns Syracuse, But It Wasn't Always This Way (PS; your letters)
To the Editor;
With all the clamor about Earth Day, and the amount of trash along the highways and byways in the Syracuse area, I would like to point out that it wasn't always this way.
The following is an excerpt from a book I published in 2006 about the history of the family business, Rochester Shoe Stores. The period the excerpt refers to is the 1940s and 1950s.
"The families tended to live in neighborhoods comprised mostly of their own nationalities. Communities of Irish, German, Italian, and Polish families developed between West Street and South Geddes Street. There was competition between the areas, but it was for all the right reasons. Immigrants from Europe and Ireland brought their sense of pride with them. This showed up in the condition of their homes and yards. Although most of the homes were small they always looked freshly painted, and the yards were decorated with flowers and veggie patches. There was no litter to be seen, and if a piece of paper did find itself curbside someone would pick it up before the day was over. The character, work ethic, and pride of the people who located in the west side of Syracuse would bode well for years of harmony and economic growth. The diversity of the area and how everyone got along is a story that should be told and re-told."
Mel Rubenstein
Manlius
Justin Bieber Fans Spread Rumor He is Engaged to Carol M Baldwin's Granddaughter (PS; Herbert)
Are Beliebers bored? Or just gullible?
Justin Bieber fans sparked a Twitter meltdown on Thursday when they spread an Internet rumor that he's engaged to Hailey Baldwin, his longtime friend and the granddaughter of Central New York breast cancer fundraiser Carol M. Baldwin.
#CongratsJustinAndHailey became a worldwide trending topic as social media users shared photos allegedly showing the 18-year-old model, whose father is actorStephen Baldwin, wearing a diamond engagement ring.
One image appeared to be a Snapchat screenshot from Hailey, saying "Thanks Bieber," with a TMZ logo wrapped over the image. Another claimed to be a screenshot from the 21-year-old pop singer's Instagram account, showing a couple saying their wedding vows with the caption "soon."
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