Someone needs to send this to Chancellor Gallagher & Dr. Juhl!
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The Tigers are not the richest program in the nation by a long shot, but they won the title anyway:
............."That's one of the opportunities we have is to give hope to a lot of people out there, that greatness is for everyone," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday. "It's not just for the Alabamas and the Ohio States and the Notre Dames and the Texases. Just bloom where you're planted. Be about the right things. Be efficient."
Clemson became the first football national champion since at least 2005 ranked outside the top 20 in total athletic revenue based on the most recent figures available at this time. The Tigers were 39th in 2014-15 with $83.5 million, according to the USA Today financial database, yet defeated No. 3 Ohio State ($167.2 million) and No. 5 Alabama ($148.9 million) in the College Football Playoff.
"It's a testament to understanding it's still about people," Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich said. "I think there's still pockets of places in this country where if you get the right people at the right time doing the right things, you can be incredibly successful. I really believe that. Without that, let's just look at USA Today and figure out who spends the money and those are going to be the ones that win."
Still, deep pockets and large alumni historically would not describe the Tigers. Although it's growing, Clemson has the smallest undergraduate enrollment by a football national champion since Miami in 2001. That translates to athletic money, such as this info from 2014-15.
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For a while, Swinney took much less money than other head coaches in order to hire and retain his assistants. Over the past five years, Swinney has made only two hires on his coaching staff. Of course, he's not hurting for money and made $4.4 million this year from Clemson, the 12th-highest coach compensation in the USA Today database......................
"We're incredibly competitive," Swinney said, "but if we're comparing alumni bases and things like that, I mean, heck, we go out to play Ohio State last week, and good Lord have mercy, I thought we were in Columbus when we showed up, there were so many Ohio State people there."
When told how much farther the Tigers' revenue is behind competitors, Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich replied with a laugh, "Oh, I know."
When Radakovich became AD in 2012, he asked Swinney what he needed for football. As a senior associate AD at LSU, Radakovich experienced the buildup of LSU's program under Nick Saban with a rabid but long-suffering fan base that Radakovich found similar to Clemson's.
"Dabo believes," Radakovich said. "He's made everybody else believe and that's what makes it so special. From the first time he and I ever sat down and talked he said, 'We're gonna win here.' And I go, 'I got you.' He goes, 'No, no, you don't understand. We're gonna win here.'
"It's not just all about money. It's about being at a place that embraces college football, that embraces those seven Saturdays every year. You want to get to a place that says, 'This is important.' Dabo's been the maestro to make sure it's stayed very, very important and at a very, very high level."
Radakovich, who had been at Georgia Tech, researched the Tigers' job by drawing a two-hour circle around Clemson, a rural town in upstate South Carolina. He found seven million people within two hours, due largely to Atlanta and Charlotte being nearby with significant population bases to recruit.
"You always have to have the means of production," Radakovich said. "Maybe that's the steel worker in me from Western Pennsylvania where you have the coal and the iron ore and you put it together and make steel."
LINK:
http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...oving-money-alone-doesnt-buy-national-titles/
Article & Link:
The Tigers are not the richest program in the nation by a long shot, but they won the title anyway:
............."That's one of the opportunities we have is to give hope to a lot of people out there, that greatness is for everyone," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday. "It's not just for the Alabamas and the Ohio States and the Notre Dames and the Texases. Just bloom where you're planted. Be about the right things. Be efficient."
Clemson became the first football national champion since at least 2005 ranked outside the top 20 in total athletic revenue based on the most recent figures available at this time. The Tigers were 39th in 2014-15 with $83.5 million, according to the USA Today financial database, yet defeated No. 3 Ohio State ($167.2 million) and No. 5 Alabama ($148.9 million) in the College Football Playoff.
"It's a testament to understanding it's still about people," Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich said. "I think there's still pockets of places in this country where if you get the right people at the right time doing the right things, you can be incredibly successful. I really believe that. Without that, let's just look at USA Today and figure out who spends the money and those are going to be the ones that win."
Still, deep pockets and large alumni historically would not describe the Tigers. Although it's growing, Clemson has the smallest undergraduate enrollment by a football national champion since Miami in 2001. That translates to athletic money, such as this info from 2014-15.
............
For a while, Swinney took much less money than other head coaches in order to hire and retain his assistants. Over the past five years, Swinney has made only two hires on his coaching staff. Of course, he's not hurting for money and made $4.4 million this year from Clemson, the 12th-highest coach compensation in the USA Today database......................
"We're incredibly competitive," Swinney said, "but if we're comparing alumni bases and things like that, I mean, heck, we go out to play Ohio State last week, and good Lord have mercy, I thought we were in Columbus when we showed up, there were so many Ohio State people there."
When told how much farther the Tigers' revenue is behind competitors, Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich replied with a laugh, "Oh, I know."
When Radakovich became AD in 2012, he asked Swinney what he needed for football. As a senior associate AD at LSU, Radakovich experienced the buildup of LSU's program under Nick Saban with a rabid but long-suffering fan base that Radakovich found similar to Clemson's.
"Dabo believes," Radakovich said. "He's made everybody else believe and that's what makes it so special. From the first time he and I ever sat down and talked he said, 'We're gonna win here.' And I go, 'I got you.' He goes, 'No, no, you don't understand. We're gonna win here.'
"It's not just all about money. It's about being at a place that embraces college football, that embraces those seven Saturdays every year. You want to get to a place that says, 'This is important.' Dabo's been the maestro to make sure it's stayed very, very important and at a very, very high level."
Radakovich, who had been at Georgia Tech, researched the Tigers' job by drawing a two-hour circle around Clemson, a rural town in upstate South Carolina. He found seven million people within two hours, due largely to Atlanta and Charlotte being nearby with significant population bases to recruit.
"You always have to have the means of production," Radakovich said. "Maybe that's the steel worker in me from Western Pennsylvania where you have the coal and the iron ore and you put it together and make steel."
LINK:
http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...oving-money-alone-doesnt-buy-national-titles/
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