Director's Cup Standings

[BUCKYLE]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

For the entire time since they took all sports stats bro, not just since 93, but when it was still the Sears deal.

The award originated in 1993

Prior to 2003, the sponsor of the NACDA Directors' Cup was retail merchandiser Sears, and the award was known as the Sears Cup. Beginning in the 2003-2004 season, the sponsor was the United States Sports Academy. In 2007-08, Learfield Sports took over the sponsorship of the Directors' Cup.

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[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

For the entire time since they took all sports stats bro, not just since 93, but when it was still the Sears deal.

I'm pretty sure that Buckyle's link is correct. Given which, I have no idea what your gatorcountry cohorts meant by "UCLA did not finish in the top ten in the Director's cup for the first time in 26 years", in reference to an award that's 16 years old. Typo, maybe.

[BB73]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

I got this off of Gatorcountry, so it has to be right.

Stanford is usually no. 1 by a large margin because of the number of sports it fields, so what you say does make sense. The Cardinal for the entire time? I dunno. I don't even have a link for historical results.

It was pretty easy to learn that Stanford finished #2 the first year, and has won it every year since. But don't let the facts, or your unwillingness to do some simple reseach, get in the way of pimping Florida on BP.

But since it's really all about the SEC, I'm sure you're pleased that Georgia Bulldog Courtney Kupets recently won the Honda-Broderick award as best female athlete in the NCAA.

Link

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

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How were you supposed to know it was "iron balls" McGinty?

[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by BB73

It was pretty easy to learn that Stanford finished #2 the first year, and has won it every year since. But don't let the facts, or your unwillingness to do some simple reseach, get in the way of pimping Florida on BP.

But since it's really all about the SEC, I'm sure you're pleased that Georgia Bulldog Courtney Kupets recently won the Honda-Broderick award as best female athlete in the NCAA.

Link

If you wanted to be really generous, you could say maybe he was including the National Collegiate All-Sports Championship, which was sort of the predecessor to the Sears/Director's Cup, although it was only run by the Knoxville Journal. Problem there is, UF didn't finish in the top ten of that every year.

[Steve19]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Batman! With all that fail going on, how did TSUN get to #2?

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Batman! With all that fail going on, how did TSUN get to #2?

It takes a special kind of sick [censored] to even come across a picture of that magnitude. I'm impressed.

[BB73]

Originally Posted by zincfinger

If you wanted to be really generous, you could say maybe he was including the National Collegiate All-Sports Championship, which was sort of the predecessor to the Sears/Director's Cup, although it was only run by the Knoxville Journal. Problem there is, UF didn't finish in the top ten of that every year.

They did since the 83-83 year, so they do have 26 straight top ten finishes. And this Florida Wiki page says that Stanford can't match that. So if that's correct, I apologize to Mr Ubet for my earlier 'pimping' comment. It wasn't accurate to say that Florida is the only one always in the Top ten in the history of the Director's Cup, since that only started in '93, but counting the earlier 'All-sports' championship apparently gives them the longest current streak.

Gator.wiki

[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by BB73

They did since the 83-83 year, so they do have 26 straight top ten finishes. And this Florida Wiki page says that Stanford can't match that. So if that's correct, I apologize to Mr Ubet for my earlier 'pimping' comment.

Gator.wiki

I have no idea what award they're talking about there, then. It's not the National Collegiate All-Sports Championship, which UF finished 21st in 1987, for example. Apparently, prior to the Director's Cup, "All-Sport Championships" were kind of like national football championships were in the '30's, with 5 different schools claiming a "championship" every year. At any rate, the original claim, as stated, was demonstrably incorrect.

[reagdog]

Originally Posted by BUCKYLE

Link.

Edit: PAC-10! PAC-10! PAC-10!

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by BB73

It was pretty easy to learn that Stanford finished #2 the first year, and has won it every year since. But don't let the facts, or your unwillingness to do some simple reseach, get in the way of pimping Florida on BP.

Can't we all just get along?

[BB73]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

Can't we all just get along?

I apologized after that post, so don't beat yourself up.

[Gatorubet]

Well, yeah...but then it wouldn't make sense to post the bit.

[BB73]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

Well, yeah...but then it wouldn't make sense to post the bit.

When trying to figure out who's right, if things aren't completely black and white, that means they're in a gray area - which on BP is a scarlet-and-gray area.

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State 10th in national standings

Ohio State ended up 10th in the Directors' Cup standings for 2008-09, which determine to rank which Division I college has the most successful overall athletic department.

You can find the release, and link to the standings, here.

Some highlights for those who don't want to follow the link right now:

-- Stanford won, for the 150th straight year....actually 15th. Somewhere, Andy Geiger is bursting with pride.

-- OSU was second among Big Ten schools. Behind Michigan. Chew thoroughly before swallowing.

-- It was OSU's highest finish since 2004, when the Buckeyes were fourth. OSU's best finish was 2003, when it was third....averaging out the results, OSU finished 18th in the first five years (1994 to 1998), then had a good run in the middle six years, averaging 9th (1999 through 2004). In the past five years, the average is 12th (2005-present).

Ohio State 10th in national standings (Blogging the Buckeyes)

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