Thomas W. Reiland
Associate Professor in the
Department of Statistics,
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC, 27695-8203.
reiland@ncsu.edu
Tel: (919) 515-1939
Fax: (919) 515-7591
- 1970 B.A. Mathematics, Lewis University (Illinois)
- 1972 M.A. Mathematics, Bowling Green State University
- 1974 M.Sc. Statistics, Florida State University
- 1977 Ph.D. Statistics, Florida State University
Research Interests:
Statistics Education, Statistics in Sports, Optimization, Distance Education.
Courses: Click Here for links to course web pages.
Student Survival: Top Ten List of What to Know to Pass Introductory Statistics
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics bowl payouts. Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series, Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan, 2011, Gotham Books.
Recent Trends in College Football Head Coach Salaries and Athletic Department Budgets. (Data are from USA Today at NCAA Finances and Football Coach's Contracts; also from Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) and Coaches' Hot Seat.- ACC Schools 2003 - 2008: Student/Institutional Support of Athletics, Athletic Department Revenues and Expenses, etc. (not all data available for the private schools Boston College, Duke, Miami, and Wake Forest).
Variables (monetary values not adjusted for inflation)- Football operating expenses
- Football expenses [all expenses associated with football]
- Football revenues
- Foot(Rev-Exp) [football revenues minus football expenses]
- Football Partic [number of players in football program]
- Total Expenses [athletic department expenses]
- Total Revenue [athletic department revenue]
- Total(Rev-Exp) [athletic dept. revenues - athletic dept. expenses]
- Stud/Institut Support [funds from student fees and other university sources given to athletic department]
- Female Undergraduates [female undeergraduate enrollment]
- Male Undergraduates [male undergraduate enrollment]
- Total Undergraduate [total undergraduate enrollment]
Example- Click in the window below the horizontal axis and choose Total Expenses from the pop-up list
- Click in the window to the left of the vertical axis and choose Stud/Institut Support from the pop-up menu
- To the upper right of the graph click under Color and choose Unique Colors
- To the right of the graph click under Size and choose Total Undergraduates
- At the bottom of the window click to the left of the time slider to start the animation over time.
- Point to a circle to see the school information. For example, in 2004 (2008) Maryland's Total Expenses, Stud/Institut Support, and Total Undergraduate enrollment are, respectively, $46,283,648 ($62,901,837); $7,500,191 ($17,101,830); and 22,933 (24,296).
ACC Schools
Suggestion: in the Color window choose Unique colors.
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- Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools (120 schools): Total Athletic Department Expenses and Football Head Coach Salaries 2006 - 2009 (amounts not adjusted for inflation, not all data available for private schools and service academies); (2009 athletic department expenses are estimated using the minimum annual percentage increase over the previous 3 years).
The 120 FBS schools come from the following conferences:- Conferences that receive an automatic bid to a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl: ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, SEC, Pac 10 (Notre Dame is an independent that receives an automatic bid if it meets certain criteria).
- Conferences that are eligible to receive a bid to a BCS bowl if a team meets certain criteria: Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West Conference, Sunbelt, Western Athletic Conference plus independents Army and Navy.
FBS Schools. Suggestion: in the Size window choose Salary.
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- BCS (Bowl Championship Series) Schools vs non-BCS Schools: Football Head Coach Salaries and Athletic Department Revenues 2006-2009 (amounts not adjusted for inflation, not all data available for private schools and service academies); (2009 athletic department expenses are estimated using the minimum annual percentage increase over the previous 3 years)
The 64 BCS schools consist of the 63 schools in the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, SEC, Pac 10 conferences and Notre Dame. The BCS bowls are the Orange, Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and the national championship game. The champions of the 6 BCS conferences receive automatic invitations to one of the BCS bowls; Notre Dame also receives an invitation if it is ranked among the top 8 teams. The remainder of the 10 invitations go to other BCS teams or to teams from the mid-major conferences (Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West Conference, Sunbelt, Western Athletic Conference) and independents Army and Navy.
- BCS and non-BCS Schools Suggestion: in the Size window choose Salary.
Don't give up, don't ever give up!
Jim Valvano, Arthur Ashe Courage Award address, March 4, 1993
2006 North Carolina High School 3A State Lacrosse Champions
2008 North Carolina High School 3A State Lacrosse Runner-Up
2009 North Carolina High School 3A State Lacrosse Runner-Up
CARDINAL GIBBONS CRUSADERS
Game Report
Lacrosse Growth Stats
*NFHS = National Federation of High Schools
Lacrosse Academics
 | In the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report issued by the NCAA in October 2010, men's and women's lacrosse had the highest GSR of all sports. The men's success rate was 88.0 pecent and the women's success rate was 93.9 percent. |
COURSES
Student Survival: Top Ten List of What to Know to Pass Introductory Statistics
ST 101 Statistics by Example
ST 301 Statistical Methods I
ST 302 Statistical Methods II
ST 311 Introduction to Statistics - Distance Education version
ST 311 Introduction to Statistics (Emphasis on Statistics in Sports)
BUS/ST 350 Statistics for Business and Economics
ST 371 Introduction to Probability and Distribution Theory
ST 511 Experimental Statistics for the Biological Sciences I SSI 2007
OR 501 Introduction to Operations Research
OR/MA 504 Introduction to Mathematical Programming
Letters of Recommendation for Students
Recommendation Letter Instructions
Tanner's famous quote from The Bad News Bears (reduce volume if you're in a library!)
