Michigan second in latest Director's Cup standings
Coming off a strong winter season UM has moved up to #2 behind Stanford in the latest Directors' Cup. Given how strong we look in softball, baseball and other spring sports this will clearly be a great year for UM's sports.
Who has it better than us?!
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/…
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As Stanford wins the damned thing every year can we just turn second into something like the arsene wenger fourth place trophey?
In many organizations, you typically have managers or some other designation under directors, so it could very well be the "Manager's Cup", or if we wanted to go in a film directoin "1st Unit Production Assistant Cup".
Actually, I am OK with Stanford being the presumed winner most years and the remainder of us duking it out over who gets to add a series of increasingly obscure varsity sports just to see what it takes to make up the difference. Pelota would be a good add, for example, or perhaps skijoring.
And a little about basketball. Although, if we're adding sports, I'd like to suggest beach volleyball. That I would watch. In person. With binoculars. From the front row.
If B1G adds a sport, then SEC lobbies to add both mens and womens "noodling." They have the culture, and our water bodies are frozen half the year. Think!
Varsity noodling, women
Right there. I'll bet she cleans and cooks the fish too.
She does have her teeth. Or as we say in Chicago, her "teeFhs." Carry on.
The flip side of this is the skyrocking costs associated with ALL the non revenue sports. They lose millions of dollars EACH and the money has to come from somewhere.
Perhaps this just accelerates the eventual speration of the top power 5 universities to form their own super conference and the rest of the universities that just can't afford to compete.
I've read about ESPN's poor financials and when they stop pumping millions into college sports it could be a real bursting bubble.
As corrupt and detached as football and basketball can be, at least there is a collateral benefit. People watch. With the nonrevenue sports—especially with the way U-M spent under Brandon—it's like you're funding entire undergrad majors with their own buildings and faculty for, like, a dozen students each.
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