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'Best College Football Teams For The Money' (Forbes)

Sgt Harp

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Wake is among those ranked "best for money"; I did correct the writer -- who originally said that the Deacs were not in a bowl game. He quickly fixed it.

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Our list ranks the ten football programs that spent the least per win this season. We limited consideration to schools in the major conferences that compete for automatic qualification to the five Bowl Championship Series bowl games: the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC.

Every team on our list had a winning record in 2011 except for Wake Forest, which went 6-6. The Demon Deacons still earned a sixth-place rank on our list by limiting football expenses to less than $10 million; they were one of two teams from an AQ conference able to do so. The other team was Washington State, who had the lowest total football expenses but won just four games this season.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2011/12/22/best-college-football-teams-for-the-money/
 
Interesting way to look at this though I feel inaccurate. If you're looking at how much money is being spent, you should also consider how much money is being brought in. Though we spend near the least per win, we also bring in the least amount of money and end up usually around even or worse.

The big schools may be spending more money, but they are bringing in far more. Would be more interesting to see which teams bring in the most money per win.

In the past two years or so, I would imagine Texas would be the highest.
 
Does this include money spent on capital improvements?
 
Interesting that Wake has been written up this fall in Forbes (this article) as well as the Wall Street Journal (Notre Dame and Wake were the real #1 and #2 teams.....when it came to graduation rates).

If we're rated #6 in cost per win, then next year, when we win a few more games, we could be/should be up near #1.
All good stuff.
 
Dekin said:
Interesting that Wake has been written up this fall in Forbes (this article) as well as the Wall Street Journal (Notre Dame and Wake were the real #1 and #2 teams.....when it came to graduation rates).

If we're rated #6 in cost per win, then next year, when we win a few more games, we could be/should be up near #1.
All good stuff.
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The fact that the Notre Dame people left the Deacon stadium raving about the facilities and setting. Not an easy group to impress and they were blown away...
 
even though revenues aren't considered, it's still a great accomplishment for Wake football
 
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