Michigan 2nd in Director's Cup for 2008-09
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Michigan, in spite of a terrible football season and a general underperformance of its' fall sports, sits in second place behind (surprise) Stanford.
The final standings are released in about a week and AFAIK only the College World Series remains as an NCAA sanctioned tournament. The only team within striking distance of Michigan is UNC, whose excellent play in Omaha should provide enough points to surpass Michigan. I'd say the final standings will shake out as 1) Stanford 2) UNC 3) Michigan.
So all I need to do is get a PhD at Stanford and I'd have 123 covered.
Really too bad we had the worst football season in our history given how well everyone else performed this year. Would have been nice to finish 2nd.
UNC should get 83 pts for their finish in Omaha. that of course more than makes up for their current 24 pt deficit to M.
Tex is more than 100 pts away and can't catch us.
i keep thinking that we might actually beat Stanford (& everyone else) once in the next 3-5 years b/c football will come back to top 25 at least, W hoops can be an NCAA tourney team with upgrades to hoops facilities and recruiting (both are already happening). the soccer programs are on the upswing as is volleyball. Baseball can get back into the tourney over the next few years too.
Stanford is in a terrible budget situation and even before the most recent round of layoffs and library closings already talked about cutting athletic spending/teams. That might have some impact as well.
i've been wondering about the recent economic downturn and how that affects public vs private institutions. also, i'm not sure hom much it affect ADs b/c who knows what schools ADs operate financially indep. of the university, like M.
i know M took a big hit in it's endowment, but then i read it was a relatively small hit due to good diversification stemming from the poor state economy over the last 10 years or so. IOW, M was proactive b/c of the crappy state economy and was uniquely prepared for the recent national downturn.
at the very least as it related to the AD, now is a good time to build due to lower material costs and low interest rates.
Some of the big name private schools depend on their endowment much more than Michigan does for routine campus operating expenses. So, when Stanford's endowment lost 30% of its value, that meant much more immediate effect on services and staffing. They cut 20 positions in the AD this spring.
Same basic story at Harvard (layoffs, no raises) I've been told.
EDIT: Wow, the Googles say that they've cut another 15 positions since then: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orl-sportsathletic-directors20062…
Also, their athletic dept. is generally in the red anyway. They blame lack of support for the football team: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/26/SPOR1653KJ…
I work at Columbia University, and their endowment suffered a similar fate as Standford's (about 30%). That led to cuts across the board, and it was the first time most people ever remembered that happening. And Columbia doesn't even have a prominent athletic department. My guess is that once Stanford has to spend less on certain "non-revenue" sports, schools like UM, UNC, and Texas might leapfrog them in these rankings.
"Quite frankly, when I came to Stanford, I never thought I'd ever have any money problems again," he said. "Now, three years later, that $520 million is $410 million."
well, a 500M is not a well endowed.....er endowment. the other article quotes 12-13B, much more what i expected.
That is just his share? Stanford has the third-largest endowment in the country, or at least they HAD the third largest....
I think the 500 million was the AD endowment. Any ideas what Michigan's AD endowment is?
of an endowment allocated to the AD exclusively. i suspect the AD at stanford is NOT run indep from the university, as in A2.
a bunch of endowed athletic scholarships.
http://www.mgoblue.com/clubs/article.aspx?id=28414
I also have read that the women's gymnastics building has an endowment and there may be others.
Uhhh, im seeing Stanford, USC, Michigan, and UNC...what are you guys looking at?
Earlier today Michigan had 23.5 points for W-golf. However, they were counting 11 sports so they dropped the lowest one and now are correctly counting 10 women's and 10 men's sports. I need to get a life, as I actually looked at M's results closely enough to notice this.
You might need to get a life, but that was still impressive.
Does lacrosse's success count towards this?
They didn't compete in an NCAA championship and aren't a varsity team.
rats
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