M jumps to 3rd place in latest Directors Cup standings
Latest NACDA Directors Cup standings released today:
Michigan jumps up to third place with 713.50 total points as the men’s basketball runner-up, an eighth place finish in men’s swimming and diving and a 17th place finish in women’s basketball.
Stanford still leads, obviously. Penn State 2nd, NC State 4th, Ohio State 5th.
The Big Ten leads all Division I conferences with four institutions in the top 10 – Penn State (2nd), Michigan (3rd),Ohio State (5th), and Wisconsin (8th).
http://www.nacda.com/sports/directorscup/spec-rel/040518aab.html
Before any of the tournment games were played. These rankings are misleading. I mean come on, it was Izzo's best team ever. 
...for the "tough" year they've had to endure?
He makes a lot of money. Took a lot of bullets this year.
Who's Sparty? Never heard of him...
I only know these guys:
MSU is 35th, in case anyone cares.
EMU is 72nd.
CMU is 99th.
WMU is 157th.
Can't wait for the 2018 Fulmer Cup results.
If we win tonight, Hockey should put us at #2 over Penn State. Are we still over them even if we lose tonight?
I don't think we can pass them no matter the results of the Frozen Four. Looking at the standings, it looks like schools get 64 points for 9th place (losing in the round of 16), 83 points for 3rd place, 90 points for 2nd place, and 100 points for a championship. Since Penn St. lost in the first round of the tournament, they're getting 64 points for ice hockey. We trail them by 40 points, so we can close the gap but not cover it no matter the outcome this weekend.
they got nothing and liked it
spring is by far the weakest of the 3 seasons for PSU. Should score in lacrosse (Men's likely, Women's possible), and some for track & field too. Golf too - most schools score some points there. But that's probably it. PSU tennis is average, and PSU baseball and softball are honestly borderline-disasters right now.
Michigan is pretty strong in the spring - softball, of course, plus tennis, T&F, women's water polo, golf and women's rowing. Work to do, but Men's lacrosse might score some points as well. Baseball, probably not this year, but it'll get better eventually.
not sure if it was you ....... but the scoring system does have issues.
There's a 64-point gap between a team simply making the tournament (PSU) and a team that just missed (e.g., Minnesota). There's only a 36-point gap between PSU and whoever eventually wins the Frozen Four.
The "Marginal ROI" (for lack of a better term to call it) basically holds steady (or in some cases, decreases) with each additional Tournament win. Huh?
PSU made the hockey tournament, so they should score more than Minnesota. But we should also be rewarding actual Championships a bit more ...
women's ice hockey for Michigan - get some points there
Division 1 contenders pretty quick if they recruited all the AAA teams in the area. There are pretty much no schoos in the areal except Adrian with a big girls program, at least that I can think of
Doesn't your second sentence contradict your first?
How the hell does Stanford win this every year easily? Do they simply offer more sports than other Universiites, or are they just better all-around at all the sports?
Impressive, they are the Woemens Ucon Basketball team of all sports!
they offer a ton of sports that other schools don't.
Womens underwater-unicorn-fencing and so forth.
So many questions:
- Do the unicorns do the fencing?
- Do human women ride the unicorns and the women do the fencing?
- If #2, are both the women and the unicorns underwater, or just the unicorns?
- If #3, do the unicorns wear a special breathing apparatus made for magical horned equines or can they breathe underwater, as befitting a magical horned equine?
Pls advise.
All of the above.
For the record, I just read this book to my 6 yr old daughter last night.
Stanford tends to be really good at a lot of sports where there isn't much of a professional future or where college is a non-traditional route towards a professional career. Basically, if you're a top-level athlete in, say, water polo, and Stanford offers you a scholarship to play said sport in college while getting a degree from one of the best universities in the world, it's kind of a no-brainer.
so you get great golfers (Tiger Woods, Tom Watson) tennis players (John McEnroe) and swimmers( Katie Ledecky) other warm weather/outdoor sports talent.
The football team has held their own as well.
Stanford rules all of the Country Club sports. There are a lot of those, and some of them do not have very many schools playing them, or just playing them as club sports.
I can't even tell what the other categories are after skiing
Fake news. We finished in the top five only once under Brandon. We finished in the top five in 10 of the 15 years before him.
It's crazy that Stanford has been #1 every year since 1994-1995.
UNC won the inaugural Director's Cup, and Stanford has won every single one afterwards.
In hindsight that was a crazy upset.
On another note, didn't realize that Grand Valley was basically the D-II version of Stanford (and Williams College the D-III version).
I believe the year before this started there was another all sports cup (cant remember the name and Michigan won it I believe)
Fuck Stanford.
1) They need to show a combined year directors cup standings. I'd love to see how the schools stack up with all sports (fall and winter) combined.
2) I'm thinking of putting together a "weighted" directors cup standings. I'm thinking of using sport revenue as a propotional factor in weighting points for the sports. (Thus football and basketball would be worth more than rifle shooting, for example. They of course would all be combined into a yearly standing like mentioned in point 1 above.) If anyone else wants to take a crack on a lazy day, feel free! Else I'll probably do it later this Spring.
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Stanford |
24 |
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Florida |
24 |
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UCLA |
21 |
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UNC |
20 |
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Michigan |
18 |
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Texas |
18 |
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USC |
15 |
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OSU |
11 |
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Penn State |
9 |
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Georgia |
9 |
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California |
8 |
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Arizona |
8 |
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Virginia |
7 |
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LSU |
6 |
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Duke |
6 |
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ASU |
6 |
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Nebraska |
5 |
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Texas A&M |
5 |
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Notre Dame |
4 |
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FSU |
3 |
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Oregon |
2 |
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Tennessee |
2 |
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Washington |
2 |
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Oklahoma |
2 |
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Minnesota |
1 |
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Kentucky |
1 |
PS: Ohio State and Penn State have been coming on strong lately... helping the B1G and pushing Cal down. AU and ASU are sliding as well.
7 of top ten schools in warm-weather states? Perhaps they should have a Northern States Director's Cup.
Hockey, Mens & Womens Gym, Softball, Water Polo, Mens and womens Tennis..and whatever Track can muster and Possibly baseball (but prob has to win the reg season or conference tournament) Golf usuallygets in a regional so theres a few points and Mens Lacrosse possible