ESPN CFB Fan Happiness Index

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redwingillini11

redwingillini11
White and Sixth
North Aurora
redwingillini11
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Illiini

Illiini
In the land of the Nittany Lion
Illiini
BWBW said:
111 seems rather high. MSU is 115.
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If the MSU alum I spoke with briefly aboard a cruise ship an couple of weeks ago is any measure, yeah, they're unhappy. Remember, they lost to Illinois last year, and that can't make them happy.

And us, we may not be terribly unhappy but we won't really be happy until the wins start showing up.
 
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Illiini

Illiini
In the land of the Nittany Lion
Illiini
Although this isn't really a measure of "fan happiness" but rather "should fans be happy based on the parameters we've chosen." Coaching "stability" is meant to be a boon, but getting rid of a bad coach and replacing him with a good one (like anyone we might know) actually creates happiness, no?
 
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ILL_INI

ILL_INI
ILL_INI
METHODOLOGY

The Fan Happiness Index is built from these six categories:

Program power: Combination of strength of records from 2012-2016 and current FPI compared to recent history.

Rivalry dominance: Combination of wins above expectation over rivals in past five seasons and how a team's FPI compares to its rivals'.

Coaching stability: How close a coach is to being fired, based on Phil Steele's coaching stability rankings.

Recruiting trend: Difference in percentage of five-, four- and three-star recruits in current class vs. expectation.

Revenue growth: Difference between revenue earned in 2016 season relative to 2012-2015 average. Data derived from U.S. Department of Education Equity in Athletics Database.

Twitter buzz: Percentage of tweets from fans that are positive, based on social media sentiment analysis.
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I wonder who they picked for Illinois' rivals.
 
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champaignchris

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champaignchris
I think you can question the methodology, but the results seem accurate. (At least from the Illini fan perspective.)

You can sum things up better this way: in the 25 years since Ron Guenther was hired as AD, Illinois has a .392 winning percentage. Good for 98th out of 119 FBS teams, 61st out of 65 BCS teams, 13th out of 14 B1G teams. In the 90+ years before Guenther it was .540, 59 out of 109, 43 of 65, and 9th out of 14. (Every B1G expansion team starting with Penn St was better than Illinois in this period. Illinois was 5th out of the original 10.)

Illinois football was never particularly grand, but was at least competitive for long stretches, a middle of the pack program with occasional flashes of greatness. But now it has been rotten for longer than any Illinois students have been alive.
 
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Illiini

Illiini
In the land of the Nittany Lion
Illiini
champaignchris said:
(Every B1G expansion team starting with Penn St was better than Illinois in this period.)
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Um, Rutgers. At least give us that. :tsk:

But now it has been rotten for longer than any Illinois students have been alive.
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Well, that with a few shining moments is true. On the other hand, Northwestern was once such that people talked about it like people now do Rutgers, that they don't belong in the B1G. Which means there's hope for us yet.