College Football Non-Conference Scheduling: Risk and Reward
By: Drew Homa
With the decision to go to a 4-team playoff starting with the 2014 season, it seems that college football is giving more teams a shot at the national championship. In some ways, this is true – a 4-team playoff does include twice as many teams as the current 2-team playoff that the BCS technically consists of. How those four teams are going to be selected will be debated and finalized in the next year or so, but do the impending changes mean that teams need to radically rethink their scheduling philosophy?
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“As it relates to technology and strategic decision making, Win AD is the best investment we’ve made in the last decade.”
- John Mocek
Senior Associate A.D. for Finance & Administration
University of Texas at Arlington
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Coaching Turnover’s Effect on Attendance and Winning Percentage
By: Jacob Feldman, Harvard University
It was all going so well. The Hawaii men’s basketball team had just finished its eighth straight winning season after another year of strong attendance. But then longtime coach Riley Wallace left. And it all came apart.
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Coaching Turnover’s Effect on Style of Play
By: Jordan Sperber, Villanova University
In a recent post we examined coaching turnover’s effect on both winning percentage and attendance and found that many top mid-major men’s college basketball programs struggle to succeed in the immediate aftermath of a coach change.
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Realignment Ratings Index Part II: Assessing NCAA Conference Realignment in the Mountain West & Big 12
By: G.K. Nwosu
Conference realignment has arguably been the talk of intercollegiate athletics over the last two to three years. With the topic as ubiquitous as it has been, we found it an appropriate area for research and developed the Realignment Rating Index (RRI) as an instrument to measure several factors impacted by realignment at individual institutions, as well as their respective conferences.
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Seven Facts About Division II ADs
We searched for commonalities in the backgrounds of the most successful DII Athletic Directors (our sample focused on the ADs of the top 30 ranked universities in the Directors' Cup). Here's what we found.
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