The Private Equity College Sports Hellscape Thread

[Kolumbo]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/cnbc-official-college-sports-valuations-2025-top-75-athletic-programs.html

This site is stupid. You should be able to sort it as you wish. If you sort by 2024 Revenue, UCF comes in first at $98M because it begins with a 9. If these numbers mean anything, it is very impressive for non P4 programs to be included since they don't have the media funding. I suppose the decision makers don't understand this list so back to CR#1

Multiples start at 4
UConn's multiple is only 2.4 while bcu's is 3.9 and su is 4.0 so the methodology is highly suspect

71 UConn
68 SDSU
72 USF
74 Boise St
75 UNLV

 

[FfldCntyFan]

A cautionary tale on this should be Sally's Apizza (it's being discussed on the pizza thread). The PE firm that took over played nice for quite a while, slowly expanding, one location at a time, strategically placed to ensure the look and feel needed to be a Sally's restaurant.

Now the plan is to blast out 200 locations throughout the country. The thing is they need to get their targeted return and will do whatever is necessary to get there.

 

[B1GEast]

Someone explain to me BC at 54...???

To determine the rankings, CNBC and Belzer incorporated the expertise of several people knowledgeable about athletic program valuations who asked not to be named in order to freely discuss details of the programs.

 

[gioff2323]

A cautionary tale on this should be Sally's Apizza (it's being discussed on the pizza thread). The PE firm that took over played nice for quite a while, slowly expanding, one location at a time, strategically placed to ensure the look and feel needed to be a Sally's restaurant.

Now the plan is to blast out 200 locations throughout the country. The thing is they need to get their targeted return and will do whatever is necessary to get there.

It’s crazy when folks try to make money from running a business.

 

[CL82]

It’s crazy when folks try to make money from running a business.

I think that's his point.

 

[B1GEast]

This site is stupid. You should be able to sort it as you wish. If you sort by 2024 Revenue, UCF comes in first at $98M because it begins with a 9. If these numbers mean anything, it is very impressive for non P4 programs to be included since they don't have the media funding. I suppose the decision makers don't understand this list so back to CR#1

Multiples start at 4
UConn's multiple is only 2.4 while bcu's is 3.9 and su is 4.0 so the methodology is highly suspect

71 UConn
68 SDSU
72 USF
74 Boise St
75 UNLV

It's absurd. No one can possibly believe that N
BC, just because it's tied to the ACC is more valuable than UConn.

It's shoddy journalism boiled down to such simplicity. They should be ashamed to even post this stuff.

Value is intrinsic and BC doesn't move the needle. They are just basing this off of revenue generated by the ACC contract.

I'm surprised that big media personalities haven't disparaged this article yet

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

This site is stupid. You should be able to sort it as you wish. If you sort by 2024 Revenue, UCF comes in first at $98M because it begins with a 9. If these numbers mean anything, it is very impressive for non P4 programs to be included since they don't have the media funding. I suppose the decision makers don't understand this list so back to CR#1

Multiples start at 4
UConn's multiple is only 2.4 while bcu's is 3.9 and su is 4.0 so the methodology is highly suspect

71 UConn
68 SDSU
72 USF
74 Boise St
75 UNLV

I think the methodology places additional value when the TV contract has numerous years remaining. So, the ACC benefits from their 2036 duration and UConn is penalized by our short term and low value football tv contract. So, the UConn multiple suffers as opposed to every other school.