It took 60 weeks, but Japan’s Marie Kondo is finally queen of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. Her wildly popular “de-cluttering” book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, hits No. 1 for the first time ever. (The full list will publish on Thursday.)
Published on Oct. 14, 2014, Magic entered the top 150 on Nov. 6, 2014 at No. 104. The book, one of the breakout titles of 2015 and now a hot seller into 2016, has spent 60 weeks on the list, and reached its previous peak – No. 2 – just last week.
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January 14, 2016 5:51 AM
But they all ignore the point of student athlete not athelete student in calculating economic value to the bloody alumni!!
January 14, 2016 5:49 AM
Yup, still hanging their hats on the wins over Hillsdale college from 1890.
January 14, 2016 5:46 AM
Can we just privatize these programs? Maybe take each of the conferences public via IPO. The SEC must be worth billions, plus whatever fan premium the bankers could get.
January 14, 2016 5:46 AM
Texas may be the second most valuable program, but all that "value" hasn't translated into wins on the field. So what good is it?One might ask the same question of Jerry Jones and his most valuable pro sports franchise, the Dallas Cowboys. If "value" doesn't translate to wins, what good is it?
January 14, 2016 5:46 AM
That's what is great about tonight's game--vastly different programs regarding financial support can play a competitive (I hope) football game.
January 14, 2016 5:45 AM
Clearly there is a problem with methodology here: When Wyoming, located in Laramie and in a state with a population of under 1 M is ranked way ahead of Houston something is amiss. Would anyone contemplate an NFL team in Laramie?????
January 14, 2016 5:44 AM
I'm amazed that Michigan is third on this list. After years of mismanangement at the hands of Rich Rod and Brady (C)Hoke, I assumed that M go Blue would have had to climb out of a deep hole. Thank God Jim Harbaugh showed up to make the hole much much more shallow. Run this analysis in five years and let us know just how much Michigan is worth then (if you can count that high, that is).In five years, (Sub)Urban Meyer will find himself feeling chest pains and needing to spend more time with his family again, with the wreckage of THE Ohio State Buckeyes in his wake (sound familiar, Gator fans?)
January 14, 2016 5:44 AM
Gratis? A football scholarship isn't exactly chopped liver.
January 14, 2016 5:44 AM
So this means when the the shift to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is complete Ohio State can sell off the football team to pay down their $3 Billion debt?
January 14, 2016 5:43 AM
YES! Exactly. They should all do IPOs. Or pool into one of their conferences, and then IPO that. The universities could still retain some ownership, but let the fans and investors buy a stake. Maybe NFL teams could take a stake if they want a farm team.
January 14, 2016 5:42 AM
How much was Penn State worth before Sandusky?Is the loss, tax deductible?How is this data derived if no free market forces apply?
January 14, 2016 5:41 AM
State is #40
January 14, 2016 5:41 AM
Congratulations to all the college football programs bringing revenue and supporters to their institutions. It is very big business, especially for larger universities which fill stadiums with 100,000 plus fans and have huge alumni. The NCAA College Football Program is a remarkable success.
January 14, 2016 5:40 AM
IUPU in Columbus, Indiana.
January 14, 2016 5:38 AM
Yesterday I read an NCAA report that claimed only 20 out of over 1000 universities made money on athletics in 2013.I would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars for any of these programs.
January 14, 2016 5:37 AM
After tonight Clemson will jump up to the top ten!
January 14, 2016 5:37 AM
Colleges need to eat their own socialist dog food. Redistribute the wealth between all these programs and watch what happens. Students, parents and politicians alike will finally understand how both market and command economies actually work. They could even have a course on this - "Fairness in College Football: From Barry Switzer to Barry Sanders".The danger of concussions on the field are miniscule compared to the brain damage inflicted on the general student population by their professors.
January 14, 2016 5:37 AM
The value of a sports scholarship would depend on the obligations of the scholarship. When I see the playing schedule alone, let alone practice time, of my state's UConn basketball team, those players can't possibly have enough time to study and go to classes. Football, with only one game a week, might be different, depending on required practice time.
January 14, 2016 5:36 AM
They fixed it... NC State is #40.
January 14, 2016 5:35 AM
Colleges should eliminate all athletics except football and men's basketball. The rest are money losers and cause student fees to be increased so a few students can enjoy playing games.
January 14, 2016 5:34 AM
"Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus". Is this a misprint? If not, in what city in which state does the Assistant Professor teach?
January 14, 2016 5:34 AM
Nonsense. The author combines gives lip service to objective metrics like revenues and expenses - and then goes off on a tangent with his own subjective "adjustments".
January 14, 2016 5:34 AM
Wut be a SAT?
January 14, 2016 5:33 AM
Should switch to European model of independent Clubs and no sports in college...Waste of money for 50% graduation rate...75% of football players belong in trade school and 90% of basketball players...
January 14, 2016 5:33 AM
What does the median Ohio State Football player get on his SAT?
January 14, 2016 5:32 AM
When you consider "expenses," you start to wonder if the author has ever set foot on a university campus?