Director's Cup Standings
This isn't that interesting, but I saw that the Sears Director's Cup standings were updated recently and MIchigan is 4th. This is the rankings of the overall athletic department performance....otherwise known as the competition that Stanford wins every single year.
The next update is April 4th where we will get credit for the Men's Swimming National Title and then again the following week where both of the basketball teams should pull in points.
Also, there is the Capital One Cup that is supposed to be something similar, but it doesn't seem to make any sense and Michigan is just 21st:
http://www.capitalonecup.com/assets/standings/complete-capital-one-cup-standings.pdf
looking at the cap1 cup pdf, they only list the top 10 finishers. So maybe they only award points for the top 10.
Sear cup awards based on how you finish in the NCAA tournaments/championships- unique to each sport but generally down to the 25th/64th finishers
The Director's Cup calculates a schools score by looking at the top 10 for both men's and women's sports, meaning each school's score is based on 20 teams. Does the Capital One Cup only take the top 10 overall into consideration?
There are two separate awards for men's and women's. We are in 9th for women's.
So the Director's Cup includes both men's and women's sports in their calculations, but the Capital One Cup splits them up. In the Captial One Cup we are 21st in the men's standings and 9th in the women's standings. We are a solid 4th (soon to be 1st in all likelihood) in the Director's Cup which takes both into account.
Capital One Cup gives a lot of weight to first place. For Group A sports (most non-revenue sports) first place gets 20 points, then 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. For Group B sports (mostly revenue sports) it's 60, 36, 30, 24, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3.
Also, for men's, if we win it all in basketball and end up #1 in the coaches' poll (which I assume we would) we should end up as #1.
Was just about to say the same!
Because they suck balls?
Seems like the only way they could be so far behind other major athletic departments
== Not a good way to start anything.
Says the guy who just posted a thread about a guy who almost pitched a perfect game
The Men's Swimming natoinal championship gives us 100 points, and we will get at least 83 for our basketball team (100 if we win it all, 90 if we lose in the championship, and 83 if we lose to Syracuse). So we will jump up to at least 614.5 (hopefully 631.5), which will probably give us the lead.
whatever 33rd place in the team competition gets (5-8 points?). Everything counts in the race for #1 overall.
but oregon should get points for making it so far in the tourney as well.
Oregon will earn 64 points for their Sweet Sixteen appearance. I can't find the full men's swimming results, so I'm not sure how many points (if any) they will get for that. The new update (4/4) will include wrestling, fencing, and women's hockey as well. The basketball points will be added on 4/11. We might be in the lead on 4/11--it could be close.
is going to get points for men's basketball, women's basketball which just made the Final Four and men's hockey.
Was looking at the Director's Cup website and points for the Fencing National Championship is included in tomorrow's release. ND got 2nd in fencing.
North Carolina won it the first year ('93-'94) with Stanford coming in second. Stanford has won it ever since. Also, while I was looking at the results, I noticed that Michigan has made 15 top 10 appearences, which is the most out of Big Ten schools (plus Notre Dame). They are followed by Ohio State (8), Penn State (8), Nebraska (7), Minnesota (1), and Notre Dame (1).
UNC won the Director's Cup in its inagural year. That was in the early 1990s. Stanford won it the next year and has never lost since. Frankly...it's ludicrous, by which I mean impressive.
Having said that, Stanford sponsors more varsity sports than, I believe, everyone else (and far more than most). W/r/t the Director's Cup, this is beneficial as the cup's formula puts a cap on how many men's and women's sports** can annually score for each school (meaning Stanford is more able to remove their lowest performing teams from the scoring list than everyone else).
**Anyone here aware of the official cap?
Also helps that they are Stanford. A lot of non-revenue athletes are really good students and want a great education. They put as much work in in the classroom as they do in their sports and are generally just hard working types. Not to diminish the accomplishments of revenue sport athletes, but to put in all the work knowing you are unlikely to make a decent living after school takes a strong work ethic that often carries over to the classroom.
They cap it at 20 teams total (top 10 men's and top 10 women's).
And if they didn't cap the number of sports that each school can count, then Stanford would win by even more because it has more point-scoring teams that are not included in the rankings.