define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); forbes – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:45:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Forbes Ranks The Most Valuable Conferences: Big 12 Ranks Fifth http://rushthecourt.net/2013/01/17/forbes-ranks-the-most-valuable-conferences-big-12-ranks-fifth/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/01/17/forbes-ranks-the-most-valuable-conferences-big-12-ranks-fifth/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:45:38 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=87010

Call Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany a greedy businessman for caring more about the bottom line than tradition. Call him a savant for getting in front of the conference realignment fiasco by adding Nebraska before anyone had a chance to blink. However you feel, you can’t deny that the man knows how to run a conference. Forbes recently ranked the most valuable athletic conferences and the Big Ten came in at No. 1, ahead of the mighty SEC. While myself and probably many others were surprised to see the B1G on top, maybe we shouldn’t have been. The conference has [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/01/17/forbes-ranks-the-most-valuable-conferences-big-12-ranks-fifth/feed/ 0 MVPs: Most Valuable Programs http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/29/mvps-most-valuable-programs/ http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/29/mvps-most-valuable-programs/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:34:17 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=619

So we must have missed this around the beginning of the month, but today we came across a neat little analysis performed by the people over at Forbes that reveals the twenty most valuable college basketball programs in the nation. Their analysis takes the following four components into consideration:

We base our valuations on what the basketball programs contribute to four important beneficiaries: their university (money generated by basketball that goes to the institution for academic purposes, including scholarship payments for basketball players); athletic department (the net profit generated by the basketball program retained by the department); conference [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/29/mvps-most-valuable-programs/feed/ 2