The Rest of College Football

[Jeff Buchanan]

worth noting......

Arizona, 5-0, hosted USC last night. RR, team Made 5 trips to red zone and scored 6 points. Kicker missed 3 FGs. Sound familiar? Against teams playing big boy football, like USC does. RR's gimmicky offense made up of light weight players just doesn't do well. Don't even think about missing him.

[Optimus Prime]

Those are the people I enjoy seeing suffer...only they are probably all 'over' football anyways and are being douches down on South Beach instead.

The only thing that Columbus and SOBE have in common is that they are both in the northern hemisphere DSL, that's about it.

Honestly what do you really have at The Horseshoe? 6 fall Saturdays of Bucknut folly and an occasional Amish Flea Market.

Whereas anyone that is anything in this world calls South Beach home at some point during the year.

Indian Creek Village is for the uber-rich

As Miami Beach cements its reputation as a playground for the rich, with pied-a-terres priced in the tens of millions, one of its nearby, tony private islands is getting down to serious business.

Tucked off the shores of Surfside in Biscayne Bay, Indian Creek Island has become known as a “billionaire bunker.” Its 86 residents include four of America’s top 500 richest people, according to Forbes: activist investor Carl Icahn; hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert; car dealership owner Norman Braman. and mutual fund mogul Charles Johnson. Add to that Colombian Jaime Galinski, who has recently landed on Forbes’ world billionaires list.

No need to feel sorry for the island’s other residents, though, who include crooner Julio Iglesias, retired Dolphins coach Don Shula, Turnberry Associates co-CEOs Jackie Soffer and brother Jeffrey, who is married to supermodel Elle MacPherson. Others with Indian Creek addresses include Spanish-language TV personality “Don Francisco,” whose real name is Mario Kreutzberger; Hotels.com co-founder Bob Diener and industrialist Gilbert Bigio, considered one of the wealthiest people in Haiti. Even music magnates Jay-Z and Beyonce were once homeowners.

Island home sales have been selling at whopping — and often record — prices, such as the $47 million paid by a Russian billionaire in 2012 for a newly constructed, 30,000-square-foot mansion. Earlier this summer, steel tycoon Leroy Schecter sold his 22,686-square-foot house for $28 million to an undisclosed buyer.

Owners: Charles Johnson, retired chairman of mutual fund Franklin Resources and No. 59 on Forbes’ 2013 list of U.S. billionaires. Johnson owns the San Francisco Giants. Net worth: $5.6 billion, according to Forbes. Property: 19,941 sq-ft home with 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 half-baths featuring vaulted ceilings, wine room and gym. Built in 2002. Last sale: No previous sales listed. The home is currently for sale for $35M.
Owners: Charles Johnson, retired chairman of mutual fund Franklin Resources and No. 59 on Forbes’ 2013 list of U.S. billionaires. Johnson owns the San Francisco Giants. Net worth: $5.6 billion, according to Forbes. Property: 19,941 sq-ft home with 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 half-baths featuring vaulted ceilings, wine room and gym. Built in 2002. Last sale: No previous sales listed. The home is currently for sale for $35M.


Indian Creek mansion sells for record $47 million
Taken together, the village of 86 residents boasts a net worth in excess of $37 billion. That’s greater than the gross domestic product of half the the world’s nations, above oil-rich Yemen but just less than gas-rich Turkmenistan. (Without uber-investor Carl Icahn’s $20.3 billion, its rank would fall to No. 112, just below Bosnia and Herzgovina and just above Georgia.)

It’s quite a change from 2001, when Benny Klepach moved to the posh private island-village where he is now mayor.

“There wasn’t a lot to pick from,” said Klepach, CEO of the world’s largest duty-free retailer. “And what there was to pick from, you really had to knock it down.”

Where the island used to be filled mostly with vacation houses for the wealthy, now families are constructing extravagant dream homes to live in. All 35 properties have waterfront views, with an exclusive golf course and country club taking up the center of the 294-acre island.

“There has been incredible appreciation in Indian Creek,” said Jill Eber, one-half of The Jills, the Coldwell Banker team that sold seven of the island properties over the years.

With the economy improving and adjacent neighborhood Surfside adding entertainment and dining options, potential buyers are warming up to Indian Creek, said Klepach, who also serves as mayor of the incorporated Indian Creek Village. The island is protected by a 10-officer police force, including 24-hour marine patrol. That has led to property taxes that are among the highest in Miami-Dade County, at a 8.3782 millage rate for city taxes, alone.

Indian Creek Village was established in 1939, and a few of the properties still date back to the ’50s and ’60s. But for the most part, the smaller houses of that era are making way for sprawling mansions.

In 2012, 3 Indian Creek Island Rd. set a county record when Eber and Jill Hertzberg sold the 30,000-foot resort-style home to a Russian billionaire for $47 million. The mostly glass home included 13 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a 3D theater, 100-foot swimming pool and a recording studio.

“That really for me was the catalyst of the recent boom not only for Indian Creek, but for all of Miami,” said Oren Alexander, who represented the buyer in the sale. Alexander’s father, Miami Beach developer Shlomy Alexander, built the mansion on spec.

Shlomy Alexander said his team just broke ground on a second project at 30 Indian Creek Dr., designed by architect Chad Oppenheim. The 22,000-square-foot house is one of the largest being built in the county, he said.

Like the record-setting glass house, the new project will incorporate the outdoors and the indoors as much as possible, Oren Alexander said. The property sold in May 2014 to a buyer attracted to contemporary design’s vast spaces.

“If you define what luxury is today, to me it’s volume: big rooms, high ceilings,” he said. “You’re almost selling cubic feet instead of square feet.”

Every lot on Indian Creek Island is at least an acre and a quarter, Eber said, and today’s buyers want to use much more of that space than they used to.

“A lot of people are looking at the older properties as tear-downs ... The [house] that was 30 Indian Creek was a little over 4,000 square feet, probably about 4,400 square feet,” she said.

Klepach not only knocked down a 1940s house on his property when he bought it, he also bought his neighbor’s house to double his lot space to 160,000 square feet. Like many of his neighbors, he said, he was looking for a more contemporary style.

“The house was old; I was buying it for lot value,” Klepach said. With three children in school when the new house was finished in 2006, he and his wife “wanted to build our dream house.”

Families with children are becoming more common on the island as houses shift from winter residences to year-round homes, residents said.

“We moved there in 1991, and there weren’t any small children ... The average age [now] is half of what it was,” said Irma Braman, whose husband is billionaire car dealership owner Braman.

As a result, the village council is planning to construct the island’s first sidewalks, Klepach said. Residents have pushed for sidewalks and accompanying streetlights so their children can ride bikes and play outside — a rare sight even a decade ago.

The 300-member Indian Creek Country Club, one of the most exclusive country clubs in America, has added kids’ golf and tennis lessons to adjust to the demographic change, club president Wayne Schuchts said.

Club members, who pay $150,000 to join and $16,000 a year after that, are still an average of 65 years old, he said.

But “a significant number” have young children or grandchildren, and so the club has shifted its social calendar from black-tie, orchestral galas. A new event is “Havana Nights,” an outdoor costume soir?e that aims to be more kid-friendly — albeit still with a focus on Cuban cigars.

The golf crowd might see an even larger dip in age in the coming years, Schuchts said.

The resurgence of entertainment options in Surfside plays a role in drawing young people to Indian Creek, Alexander said. For example, the new Four Seasons Private Residences now under construction on the site of the nearby Surf Club will give Indian Creek residents an opportunity to buy a beach apartment for guests, he said.

“That was the one downside to Indian Creek,” he said. “People always said, ‘Hey, it’s in Surfside.’”

As Indian Creek Island becomes known for its space, security and location, home prices will continue to skyrocket, Klepach predicted. He thinks prices will increase 20 to 25 percent in the next few years.

Currently, four pricey properties are listed for sale: 17 Indian Creek, listed by Nelson Gonzalez of EWM Realty International, for $35 million; 9 Indian Creek, a vacant lot listed by Beachfront Realty for $27.9 million; 2 Indian Creek, a vacant lot listed by the Jills for $26 million; and 36 Indian Creek, listed by the Jills for $19.8 million.

“I don’t think we’re even close to seeing what the real values are, when you compare it to L.A. and other cosmopolitan cities,” Klepach said.

Alexander said he would be surprised to see more than four sales on the island in the next decade. Homeowners there won’t part with their homes till death or divorce, he said.

“These people that own [houses on] Indian Creek, these are some of the wealthiest people in the world,” he said.

“For them, no matter if their property value increases 200 percent, it’s irrelevant” because nothing can replace the island’s security and views of Biscayne Bay. “The question is, how much money are you going to pay a billionaire like Carl Icahn to leave his house?”


Owners: Charles Johnson, retired chairman of mutual fund Franklin Resources and No. 59 on Forbes’ 2013 list of U.S. billionaires. Johnson owns the San Francisco Giants. Net worth: $5.6 billion, according to Forbes. Property: 19,941 sq-ft home with 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 half-baths featuring vaulted ceilings, wine room and gym. Built in 2002. Last sale: No previous sales listed. The home is currently sale for $35M

[Dr. Strangelove]

Criminals of all economic classes congregate in Miami. You speak the truth

[Optimus Prime]

You mean like James Traficant or Jim Tressel, nope haven't seen them.

That's just plain mean DSL. As a result, gonna have to put you on the "Probably not gay but wacky as Hack List".

Fire Al Golden banner flew around Dolphins Stadium on Saturday, plane rented by disgruntled fans. Dave Brandon is a fascist for locking down Michigan Stadium and 100% controlling the message.

[entropy]

Suspended Georgia running back Todd Gurley, who was sidelined by the school this week amid questions about his potentially taking money from memorabilia dealers for his autograph, has received more than a scholarship for his prowess on the field.

Sources told ESPN that over the past two seasons, Georgia has arranged for more than $75,000 in insurance premiums to be paid for Gurley, including a nearly $40,000 policy this year through International Specialty Insurance.

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Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesSources said Georgia has arranged for more than $75,000 in insurance premiums to be paid for Todd Gurley over the past two seasons.

The current policy, which includes $5 million in the case of an injury that would cause him to never play again and up to $2.5 million if he sustains an injury that results in his slipping in the NFL draft, has been completely paid for. That means the policy will remain valid, for injuries sustained by Gurley on or off the field, until the policy ends Jan. 1.

Schools have been able to pay insurance premiums for their top athletes recently by taking money out of the Student Assistance Fund, an NCAA program that gives money to schools to pay for reasonable items in case an athlete can't afford them. Although the most commonly named use of this fund is a plane ticket for an athlete who needs to fly home after a family death, schools have started paying for insurance premiums. Other schools that have used the Student Assistance Fund for insurance premiums include Stanford, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alabama, Florida State, Oregon State, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, LSU and Ohio State.

After Texas A&M publicized this season that it had paid offensive tackle Cedric Ogbuehi's premium through the fund, the floodgates opened. Oregon even got clarification from the NCAA that it could reimburse some of its players, including quarterback Marcus Mariota, who had already paid their insurance premiums.

Some athletic directors have been concerned about the message it sends to drain the fund -- in 2013, SEC schools reportedly received $350,000 each -- on so few players. What happens if a school uses that money on a player, perhaps such as Gurley, who then becomes ineligible?

Also in question is whether the policy, should it be be collected, would be tax-free. Policies such as this have been tax-free in the past because the athletes themselves have paid for policies. Once the school pays, it could change how the Internal Revenue Service would rule. A spokesman for the IRS told ESPN this fall that the exact case doesn't appear in the IRS code and therefore would need to be looked at for an official interpretation to be made.

Georgia didn't need Gurley on Saturday and beat Missouri 34-0.

[entropy]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryndill/2014/10/13/the-richest-and-poorest-states-in-2014/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

along with some of the demographics conversations we've had..

[Dr. Strangelove]

West By God Virginia

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/10/18/6999933/lets-watch-west-virginia-fans-celebrate-upsetting-baylor

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmfvjQA2Su4"]WVU Is Crazy - YouTube[/ame]

[entropy]

Nebraska's Bo Pelini on 4 SEC West teams being in top 4: "They play good fb. I know there's good fb played in some other conferences, too."

Pelini on ESPN/SEC Network relationship: "You're supposed to be neutral. Pretty hard to stay neutral in that situation."

[entropy]

Pelini on ESPN/SEC Network relationship: "I don't think that kind of relationship is good for college football."

[entropy]

Bo also wants the NCAA to allow parents to visit with their kids on official visits...

[iam416]

God bless, Bo. The speaks the truth and is a footballing genius. Never let him get away, Entropy and Hoss. NEVER.

[froot loops]

I'll clap for that

[entropy]

NC academic fraud is pretty deep...damn

http://www.startribune.com/nation/280072212.html

[entropy]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20141021-texas-athletic-director-with-new-rules-longhorns-will-pay-each-player-10000.ece

pay for play on the way?

[entropy]

amazing how the NCAA has yet to do anything with this... oh, wait, it's not..

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--documents--texts-reveal-impermissible-benefits-to-five-sec-players-202513237.html