This race is over!

[Marlow]

Two-thirds of the way through the season and they can already ship this trophy off to Palo Alto! Lemme see, who many years have the Red Tree Farmers won this? :wink:

Sports Directors Cup
Best Overall Collegiate Athletics Program
2008-09 Division I Standings - 12/18
Institution Pts
1. Stanford 304.00
2. Virginia 244.00
3. Wake Forest 223.00
4. Michigan State 215.50
5. North Carolina 215.00
6. Maryland 200.00
7. Notre Dame 192.00
8. Oregon 190.00
9. Washington 188.00
10. Florida State 179.00
11. Minnesota 164.50
12. Southern California 164.00
13. Princeton (N.J.) 160.00
14. Duke (N.C.) 158.00
15. Portland 142.00
15. William and Mary (Va.) 142.00
17. Boston College 134.00
18. Michigan 132.00
19. West Virginia 130.00
20. UCLA 129.00
21. Auburn 125.00
21. Northern Arizona 125.00
23. Illinois 124.00
24. Georgetown 121.50
25. California 119.00
26. Oklahoma State 116.00
27. Brigham Young (Utah) 113.00
28. Wisconsin 112.00
29. Iowa 109.00
30. Florida 104.00
31. Syracuse 101.00
31. Tulsa 101.00
33. Iona (N.Y.) 90.00
34. Connecticut 89.00
34. James Madison (Va.) 89.00
36. Texas A&M 87.00
37. Providence 85.00
38. Villanova (Pa.) 84.00
39. St. Johns (N.Y.) 83.00
40. Colorado 79.00
41. California Poly San Louis Obispo 78.00
42. Boston University 75.00
42. Harvard 75.00
42. UC Santa Barbara 75.00
45. Penn State 74.00
46. Creighton (Nebr.) 73.00
46. Indiana 73.00
46. Northwestern 73.00
46. South Florida 73.00
50. Texas Tech 69.00

Ms. Hasay, are you reading this? :twisted:

[dukehjsteve]

Marlow, make sure when you pay her off, you do it in cash, small bills not consecutively numbered, and above all, make sure she stays quiet about it ! And as for the new automobile.... get it registered in someone else's name.

[Cooter Brown]

How is that list calculated? Texas doesn't make the list and they're nationally ranked in pretty much every sport.

If it's by GPA and graduation rates, then I understand.

[trackjudge]

How is that list calculated? Texas doesn't make the list and they're nationally ranked in pretty much every sport.

If it's by GPA and graduation rates, then I understand.

And no SEC school in the top 20. What a joke.

[Marlow]

How is that list calculated? Texas doesn't make the list and they're nationally ranked in pretty much every sport.
If it's by GPA and graduation rates, then I understand.

And no SEC school in the top 20. What a joke.

It's ranked by lamest mascots, so Stanford wins every year. As for the SEC, you'd be surprised how few varsity programs these schools have. Since they are so much into football, they have to cut down somewhere. . . Title IX, for better or worse.

[donley2]

Marlow set up is confusing. Only 5 sports have had championships so far and you can score 10 mens and 10 womens sports so the season is nowhere near 2/3 over. For something that makes considerably more sense take a look at last years final standings.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nac ... inalD1.pdf

[trackjudge]

I'm very familiar with the varsity programs in the SEC. Those schools excel in the major U.S. "ball sports" (football, basketball and baseball). They also excel in the three major Olympic sports (t&f, swimming and (women's) gymnastics). Toss in top tennis and a few other teams, and I think you have an awesome athletic department.

[Cooter Brown]

As for the SEC, you'd be surprised how few varsity programs these schools have. Since they are so much into football, they have to cut down somewhere. . . Title IX, for better or worse.

Deloss Dodds, UT AD, said when he took the AD role he was going to limit the number of sports but each sports would have every possible resource required to achieve national prominence. He didn't think you could fund 30+ sports well across the board regardless of how successful your football team is.

[KevinM]

Re: This race is over!

Two-thirds of the way through the season

2/3 of the way through what season? We've had fall championships so far, nothing more. With winter and spring sports still to come, don't you mean 1/3?