Michigan finishes 4th in Directors’ Cup standings (2nd in the B1G)
Per the NACDA's announcement. The final standings will be published on June 29th, but the top-5 are:
- Stanford... for the 22nd consecutive time
- Ohio State
- USC
- Michigan
- Florida
The Pac-12 leads all conferences with 4 programs in the top-10: Stanford, USC, Oregon (8th), and UCLA (9th)
lacrosse
It's crazy all those west coast schools don't have lacrosse or hockey and still score so highly. Do they even have wrestling? I guess it goes both ways though because most midwestern/eastern schools don't have or do well in sports like volleyball, water polo or even baseball/softball, etc.
not to be "that guy", but I think they'll pass Michigan once they get their baseball points.
Obviously, though, still yet another great year for U-M sports overall.
Didn't Michigan Baseball end the season ranked 17 or 19? That's still worth points and Florida is 22 points behind us. They may have to win the whole thing to pass us.
teams that went 0-2 in the NCAA baseball tournament were ranked 49th - earning 25 points.
Any team that made it to Omaha earned at least 73 points. Florida went 0-2 in Omaha last year, for instance - scored 73.
That would be 48 points difference. Of course, teams can only score points in 10 sports per gender. So Florida's actual gain on Michigan may be less if baseball kicks out another men's sport.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/…
Florida will pass us. You don't get points bsed on rankings, it's all based on how you place in the NCAA tournament and baseball was two and out.
Fuck Stanford
We get Harbaugh. Seems like a fair trade as of now if you ask me
They're also a warm-weather school with a pile of money, who have fielded a million varsity teams for a very long time and are good at just about all of them. If anything, the Director's Cup has created an arms race of sorts to start as many non-revenue programs as possible and play catch-up, budgetary consequences be damned. Might as well just disband the competition to stop incentivizing this kind of thing.
But Dave Brandon saw this 100% as an A.D. dick measuring contest.
on Michigan football.
It's the arms race of who can have the largest chocolate fountain in their gold-plated rowing facility that seems a bit (pun intended) overboard.
Martin started some major building projects and was an elite fundraiser.
Brandon was an egomaniac that tripled his marketing staff with yesmen and spent money like an addled crack whore.
Once those wheels are put in motion I don't think Hacket or Manuel would have been able to do much to stop them barring something unforseen that would have called for slamming on the brakes.
It will still take years for the AD to undue the devestation of Brandon. Lots of institutional knowledge lost, lots of budgets bloated.
I guess this answers the question someone had earlier this month about who had the better season, Michigan or Wisconsin. Whisky ended up in 15th place nearly 300 points behind Michigan.
Clearly I clicked the thread to read it, but am I the only one who doesn't care about this thing? I feel that it's discussed more often than it should be. It's meaningless.
I don't find it particularly meaningful, but I do think it's pretty neat to be good at many different sports.
Meanwhile MSU must be climbing to the top of the standings for The Fulmer Cup
Unfortunately for them, Alcorn State had something like 20 players arrested in a big brawl. Poor Sparty, can't even be the best at being the worst.
Then again they've got more red locks to sort out, so there's time.
You say "Michigan finishes 4th", but Florida is 5th and still playing in the baseball CWS. I would think that Florida can move up higher.
The final Division I standings will be released on Thursday, June 29 upon completion of the baseball championship.
Times in top 10 of Cup rankings (prior to this year)
|
Stanford |
23 |
|
Florida |
23 |
|
UCLA |
21 |
|
UNC |
19 |
|
Michigan |
17 |
|
Texas |
17 |
|
USC |
14 |
|
OSU |
10 |
|
Georgia |
9 |
|
Penn State |
8 |
|
California |
8 |
|
Virginia |
7 |
|
Duke |
6 |
For example, Oklahoma won four national championships this year along with a top 5 finish in football, yet they aren't in the top 10. How does scoring work for this thing?
Stanford has 36 varsity sports, while Oklahoma only has 19. More chances to win NCs in obscure sports.
Michigan has 27 for the sake of comparison.
The very 1st year, they came in 2nd behind UNC