Texas will win Director's Cup again, UofM to finish 3rd
I've run the numbers, and unfortunately Michigan's great run through the Fall and Winter (and large lead) took a hit in the Spring. The good news, if any, is that it will not be Stanford who emerges with the Director's Cup, but Texas yet again. Final results won't be out until after the College World Series, in which both Texas and Stanford are still competing, but those results are irrelevant to the order at the top.
What's interesting about the DC is that Stanford has a massive lead if you just add up the total points accumulated. However, only the top 19 sports are counted, and 4 of them have to be Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Women's Volleyball, and Baseball. Stanford scored in 24 sports, so they have to forfeit a handful of them, and they also did not make the Men's BB tournament, which means one of their required inclusions is a big ZERO. Texas scored in exactly 19 sports, including the four required, so they were by far the most efficient.
Final top five next week will be:
- Texas (1449.50 - 1476.50)*
- Stanford (1352.25 - 1379.25)*
- Michigan (1235.25)
- Florida (1181.25)
- Ohio State (1169.00)
*the ranges are pending the outcome of baseball
"2nd Sucks"
Bull Hurley
I think very few people would know this reference! It's crystal clear to me and has been since I first watched it, mid-90s.
"It's, like a switch" also gets me every time.
The world doesn’t meet you half way
I forgot about this delightfully awful movie! Did you know that Rumpology, palm-reading for butts (inexplicably not called Ass-trology), was invented by Sylvester Stallone's mom?
Good thing we got 3rd!
For detail on Texas, they finished 1st or 2nd in a whopping 10 sports (with the potential for an 11th in baseball)! That's really incredible.
Men's Swimming
Women's Swimming
Women's Indoor T&F
Men's Indoor T&F (NC)
Men's Golf (NC)
Women's Rowing (NC)
Softball
Women's Tennis (NC)
Women's T&F
Men's T&F
And they would trade all of it for finishing first in football....
As would any reasonable person
Yeah so!!!
How did the Michigan teams in those sports?
I prefer DETAILS on Michigan.
I know, 3rd place, but what's the comparison?
Well, for comparison, Michigan finished 1st or 2nd in exactly ONE sport (Wrestling). Several 3rd place finishes, though (Men's Gymnastics, Men's Ice Hockey, FBS Football). So while we did quite well overall and scored in a lot of sports, the sheer dominance in those 10 (or 11) sports is what drove Texas to finish at the top.
Stanford, meanwhile, finished 1st or 2nd in four sports: Men's Gymnastics (NC), Women's Golf (NC), Women's Rowing, Women's Water Polo (NC).
As for the specific sports that Texas dominated which you asked about, here is Michigan's finish:
Men's Swimming (22nd)
Women's Swimming (7th)
Women's Indoor T&F (47th, points not counted toward total)
Men's Indoor T&F (41st, points not counted toward total)
Men's Golf (did not compete)
Women's Rowing (10th)
Softball (17th, points not counted toward total)
Women's Tennis (17th)
Women's T&F (did not compete)
Men's T&F (46th, points not counted toward total)
Baseball (17th)
I guess I should have waited on buying on this directors cup championship gear.
Guess you could still buy your "1235.25 to 1169.00" shirt
The spring is not our forte.
oh well, beat osu
ok cool hook 'em
Their hockey team is shit.
So i guess Texas really is BACK
Sheesh. This feels about as good as M sports can do in a single year, too.
Bite your tongue. Warde is just getting started.
I mean, we didn't win any team natty's....
I'm only kinda joking. This past academic year was amazing for sports, but now it makes me look at the other schools on this list and think - yea, we have the resources and the cares for sports that they do - we SHOULD be competing not just for 13 Big Ten titles, but for 19 national titles. It was a great year for sports but it makes me hungrier for more greatness. Just like football.
We need a better men's track team. It should be part of the football investment budget.
Nyckoles Harbor would be able to help us in both.
but did they win 17 conference championships in the past 18 months?
Track is essentially the difference. We just need a more nationally competitive track team.
but they still suck at foosball!!!!!! which is honestly what they care about most, possibly only.
Sure they got the cup. But did they get to a bowl? NO!
Cup this!
I'll be the one who zags while everyone else is zigging. I think this is fantastic and something to be proud of. One of the best athletic departments, one of the top public universities in the world year after year, one of the best college towns. It's an embarrassment of riches that only a very few schools could brag about. None of our rivals can say the same.
And to be fair to Dave Brandon, he put big money into state of the art facilities for"non-rev" sports. Terrible AD overall, but not uniformly terrible.
Beat Ohio
These "club" sports Stanford receives points for is just stupid.
To be fair, the only sport for which Stanford received points (that counted in the end) and Michigan did not place at all is Women's T&F. Hardly what I would call a "club" sport.
Stanford did place in Fencing, Men's Golf, and Beach Volleyball, but those points didn't count towards their final total. It obviously helps that they compete in so many sports, because those might have counted if they'd placed higher, but the way it's structured is that the smaller the sport (and its tournament) the harder it is to get a lot of points. For instance, Beach Volleyball is a 16-team bracket; if you finish 9th (as Stanford did) you get 25 points. But if you finish 9th in a 64-team bracket like Basketball, you get 64 points. So the only way those sports end up counting towards your total is if you finish right near the top.
For context, Michigan received points in 5 sports for which Stanford did not place at all: Men's Basketball, Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Field Hockey, FBS Football, Women's Lacrosse. One or two "club" sports in that list, I think, depending on your definition.
Ok. Cool
Hook Em!
Schools south of the Mason Dixon line always dominate the Directors Cup standings. Of the top 25 schools in the 2021 final standings, the only northern schools were Michigan (3), Ohio State (9), Notre Dame (14) and Oregon (25). LINK
Michigan just has to keep doing well in fall and winter sports and improving in some of the spring sports, and maybe picking up a national championship on occasion.
If Harvard's the Michigan of the East, then maybe Texas could be the Michigan of the South and Stanford could be the Michigan of the West.
Hail, Hail to Michigan, the champions of the NORTH!
So the closest competition are all warm weather states that also happen to be the 3 best states to recruit in. Texas, California and Florida.
sucks, but it should not surprise us.
DAMMMMMMIT, you were right. I thought UM had a chance, didnt they lead going into the spring sports? SOB.