USA Today: Florida State fans most defensive in all of sports
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I went ahead and looked up Florida College for you:
Florida College, 64.7% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-college-1482/rankings
That's actually the highest giving rate that I've seen. It's higher than Princeton and almost twice as high as other elite schools.
Princeton 62.5% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/princeton-university-2627/rankings
MIT 36.6% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/mit-2178/rankings
Yale 35.8% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/yale-university-1426/rankings
Stanford 35.6% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-1305/rankings
Harvard 35.1% http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/harvard-university-2155/rankings
Actually I just googled Florida College (was not familiar with it) and found the article that you were probably looking at:
Florida College Ranks #1 Nationwide in Alumni Giving
http://www.floridacollege.edu/2015/02/05/florida-college-ranks-1-nationwide-alumni-giving/
I forgot about New College of Florida, which also has a decent rate:
New College of Florida 20.7 http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/new-college-of-florida-153704/rankings
In general, private schools, especially smaller ones seem to have higher giving rates.
If you laugh when you are wrong I can see that your life has been a riot.Originally posted by goldmom:
Again...
Personally, I think the board members should pitch in and purchase one for each member of the RRT.
FSU the only top ranked football team which did NOT sell out all it's home games last year.
Did I actually read the race card pulled out?
Did I actually read the race card pulled out?
For 2014:
FSU averaged 82,211 (capacity: 82,300), which is a +9% increase.
UF averaged 85,834 (capacity: 88,548) which is a -2% decrease (4th year of declining numbers)
Now, you mention only "top ranked" football team. Define "top ranked?"
As for FSU attendance in general, I think we do pretty darn good all things considered. Florida State is the only school with a stadium that holds at least 75,000 people to not have at least 1M in in-state population within a 100-mile radius.
According to 2010 US Census Data and the CAPS system, 850,871 Floridians live within a 100-mile radius of Tallahassee. The school with the next least populous surrounding area? Nebraska, with 1,448,241 --70 percent more than the Seminoles.
Why a 100-mile radius? It's at most a two-hour drive. People living within 100 miles can quickly and easily make it to a game and home again on the same day. These fans do not have to stay in hotels nearly as often as fans coming from farther away. Having people who can consistently show up to support the team without a major outlay of time and money, like the one required for those making a drive of four or more hours, is important.
Compare FSU's close population surrounding Gainesville. The Gators have six times the number of Floridians living within 100 miles of campus as Florida State does. The gap does close when the radius is increased to 250 miles, but again, fans living within 250 miles are less likely to consistently make the trip compared to those within 100 miles. Some of my Gator brethren will point out that considering only in-state population doesn't tell the whole story. That is true. (winning certainly helps...am I right? right.)
But for state schools, it is very important to note that in-state residents are more important. In-state tuition is much cheaper than out-of-state. And since alumni make up an important portion of fans, having a situation where a sizable population lives just over the border is not conducive to churning out alumni who will live close by when compared to schools with the advantage of having a large in-state draw.
In Florida State's case, there are certainly fans in nearby Georgia and Alabama, but FSU fans do not exist with the same frequency in those areas as they do in the state of Florida. And FSU runs in to the additional issue of alumni going back to the major population centers like Tampa, St. Pete, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, etc. -- places that are four to seven hours away on the road.
It's a simple fact that FSU fans are asked to travel farther to see their Seminoles play than fans of any other school with stadium seating 75,000 or more.
*Disclaimer: This message has been approved by a senior panel of RRT attendance subject matter experts and deemed appropriate for publication on the rival message board, Inside the Gators.
This post was edited on 3/25 12:42 PM by alaskanseminole
So who told you to build such a big stadium with those demographics?
But then Noles < Rocket Scientists has already been pointed out, no need to go there again.
But then Noles < Rocket Scientists has already been pointed out, no need to go there again.
