Thursday, May 1, 2008

NCAA versus "franchises"



Today I'm looking at Division 1 NCAA hockey and football arenas versus the and NFL.

From my prior post, the number of non-corporate arenas for the and NFL are:: 1/30 - 3.333% (only NY Rangers/Madison Sq Garden)
NFL: 11/32 - 34.375%

As far as the NCAA stadiums go, in order to make this faster I'm only glancing at the stadium name. If it looks like a possibility of a corporate name, I researched it. If I missed any let me know.

COLLEGE HOCKEY- 55/59 - 93.322%
ATLANTIC: 10/10 - 100%
CCHA: 10/12 - 83.333% (UNO and OSU have one)
CHA: 5/5 - 100%
ECAC: 11/12 - 91.666% (Quinnipiac has one)
HE: 10/10 - 100%
WCHA: 9/10 - 90.000% (only Mankato has a corporate name)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL- 107/120 - 89.166%
ACC: 11/12 - 91.666% (Wake)
Big 12: 11/12 - 91.666% (TX Tech)
Big East: 3/8 - 37.500% (Syracuse,Pitt,Louisville,USF,UCONN)
Big 10: 11/11 - 100%
Conf USA: 11/12 - 91.666% (UCF)
Independents: 3/4 - 75% (WKU)
MAC: 10/12 - 83.333% (Cent Mich,Temple)
MTN West: 7/8 - 87.500% (San Diego St)
PAC 10: 10/10 - 100%
SEC: 12/12 - 100%
Sun Belt: 7/8 - 87.500% (Troy)
WAC: 9/9 - 100%

So to summarize; yet another reason to like college sports, there's a ton less corporate named stadiums than the "pros". The and NFL combined only have 28.571% of their stadiums (sieve), while college football and college hockey have an awesome 90.050% stadiums without corporate names. Even more incredible given the fact on how hyped Division I college football is.
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