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Your 2021, 2022, 2024 & now 2025 directors cup champions.

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#251
On 6/7/2024 at 12:02 AM, TexEx15 said:
Update: Texas Long Jumper Ackelia Smith and Texas Decathlete Leo Neugebauer have both won NCAA Championships. Even if the entire Texas Track & Field team stops competing right now, that's good enough for a ~top 30 finish for both teams. Texas has won the 2023-24 Director's Cup. https://t.co/JPGNNeptiv

 

What a bizarre coincidence that we have two champion athletes named Neugebauer and apparently wholly unrelated.

https://texassports.com/honors/hall-of-honor/sharon-neugebauer-shepard/51

Maybe that's a more common German name than I thought.

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#253
11 hours ago, TexLonghorn said:
For the first time this season the @TexasLonghorns claim the top spot on the leaderboard. The @GoStanford Cardinal will need a big finish in W Track tomorrow to reclaim the lead. Either way, we will know our winner by tomorrow night!

I can't figure out how he's got this score unless he's already doing some sort of partial count for Women's track as well.

When I calculate UF and Tennessee counting everything but Women's Track and giving both 64 for baseball, I'm still coming 70 points less for both Florida and Tennessee.

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#255
For the 3rd time in 4 years the @TexasLonghorns, led by athletic director @_delconte, have won the Directors’ Cup, awarded to the top athletic department in the country. Led by championships from @TexasVolleyball and @TexasRowing. Graphic: @UTFootballEdits

 

#257
1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Pretty damn close to 4 in a row. 

This is the type of dominance we should have always had. Glad CDC is here. 

We mostly have had this kind of success. But with the old scoring, Stanford could get points from their 40 varsity sports- including some like fencing or water polo where there aren’t the many teams so getting points is easier- and with our 20 sports we could never compete. 

#258
27 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Pretty damn close to 4 in a row. 

edit: I'm bad at math

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#260

Nice to see that the days of Stanford being able to lean on backgammon and whatever to bring home the cup are history. Three overall titles in four years is dominance. New sheriff in town.

(Edit: And yes, I meant backgammon. Some of the obscure sports aren't much different from a board game.) 

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it’s coming back home to Austin, Texas 🤘#HookEm

 

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#263
A new scoring system was introduced in 2018 to make the cup more competitive. The old system calculated scores based on the top 10 men's and women's sports (20 total). Under the old system this year's scores would be:Texas 1377Stanford 1374.25

 

#264

Florida would take a hit under the previous scoring structure because we only have 9 men's programs compared to 12 women's programs, so we would always have to throw out 2 women's scores and take a 0 for a non-existent men's score.

The scoring structure has changed so many times over the years. At one point, IIRC, they only considered Indoor/Outdoor track a single sport and took your best result of the two.

#267
1 hour ago, gatormarc said:

If I'm reading this right, Tennessee will have to drop their Men's Outdoor Track score and Florida will move into 3rd heading into Omaha.

The plaque for the alternates is in the lady’s room.

#268
7 hours ago, gatormarc said:

If I'm reading this right, Tennessee will have to drop their Men's Outdoor Track score and Florida will move into 3rd heading into Omaha.

Excess scores have already been dropped.

#269
1 hour ago, chiu1040 said:

Excess scores have already been dropped.

Maybe for Texas and Stanford since your seasons are done but they still have not added baseball to UTn or UF and have only dropped Men’s Indoor for Tennessee since they are sitting at 4+15 pre-baseball.

 

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#270
On 6/5/2024 at 2:32 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

It helps when you're really good at making hires. Which Del Conte is definitely good at. 

Women's golf just proves this point again. Based purely on resume, that might be his best hire to date. 

Del Conte is HIM

#271
59 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Del Conte is HIM

If Texas had hired CDC after Deloss retired, we’d be in the midst of an even more dominating run spanning a decade instead of just the last 4-5 years 

#272

I thought the Vols were going to have to toss out one more sport than they did, so they held us off to hold on to the #3 spot. 

#274

Top 25

1 Texas (Big 12) - 1377.00
2 Stanford (Pac-12) - 1312.75
3 Tennessee (SEC) - 1217.00
4 Florida (SEC) - 1189.00
5 Virginia (ACC) - 1066.25
6 Texas A&M (SEC) - 1059.25
7 North Carolina (ACC) - 1035.75
8 Michigan (Big Ten) - 1030.00 
9 Alabama (SEC) - 1028.88
10 UCLA (Pac-12) - 1017.50
11 Notre Dame (ACC) - 1008.50 
12 Florida State (ACC) - 998.88 
13 LSU (SEC) - 998.50 
14 USC (Pac-12) - 994.00 
15 Ohio State (Big Ten) - 981.00 
16 Georgia (SEC) - 951.38 
17 Duke (ACC) - 928.50
18 Arkansas (SEC) - 921.75 
19 Oklahoma State (Big 12) - 896.00 
20 California (Pac-12) - 886.00 
21 North Carolina State (ACC) - 853.50 
22 Nebraska (Big Ten) - 841.00 
23 Penn State (Big Ten) - 827.75 
24 Oklahoma (Big 12) - 805.75
25 Wisconsin (Big Ten) - 765.50

Top 10 by conference

SEC - 4
ACC - 2
Pac-12 - 2
Big 12 - 1
Big 10 - 1

Future SEC - 5
Future ACC - 3
Figure Big Ten - 2

Top 25 by conference

SEC - 7
ACC - 6
Big 10 - 5
Pac-12 - 4
Big 12 - 3

Future SEC - 9
Future ACC - 8
Future Big Ten - 7
Future Big 12 - 1


SEC Schools

1 Texas (Big 12) - 1377.00
3 Tennessee (SEC) - 1217.00
4 Florida (SEC) - 1189.00
6 Texas A&M (SEC) - 1059.25
9 Alabama (SEC) - 1028.88
13 LSU (SEC) - 998.50 
16 Georgia (SEC) - 951.38 
18 Arkansas (SEC) - 921.75
24 Oklahoma (Big 12) - 805.75
30 South Carolina (SEC) - 679.0
32 Kentucky (SEC) - 667.25
33 Auburn (SEC) - 665.75
38 Ole Miss (SEC) - 590.38 
55 Missouri (SEC) - 426.50
57 Vanderbilt (SEC) - 410.25
60 Mississippi State (SEC) - 401.50

#276
On 6/26/2024 at 5:41 PM, Mittens said:

The Directors' Cup has only been around for 30 years and Stanford has also been Top 10 every year.

I emailed our AD yesterday about the earlier award.

USA Today released an All Sports trophy for a decade prior to Sears Cup taking over in 1993.

Hard to find info online since USA Today also sponsors the SEC All Sports trophy (aren't you excited you get to compete in that next year?) so those results are what come up when you search and with older stuff all paywalled.

I do not know what the scoring system was for that. IIRC for the longest time, it was only Florida and UCLA that were in the top 10 every year. 

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#277
It took 10 months of competition to decide the winner of the Directors' Cup but you can watch the scoring play out in just 30 seconds.Watch how teams move up and down with each sport contested. The late charge by Texas is my personal favorite part.What do you notice?

 

#280
On 6/28/2024 at 1:46 PM, Mittens said:

That wasn't directed at you.  Just a cool graphic.

Right. I was just trying to figure out what that twitter account wants us to notice.

I don't have a twitter account so I can't see the rest of that thread. I assumed further down the thread, he answers his own question.

#281

My guess is the last surge from Texas, but no, he doesn't say later in the thread.  Maybe it was more open ended rhetorical? 

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#284
10 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Now that we’re in the SEC, women’s gymnastics makes a lot of sense 

I bet rifle will be one. 

TCU just won the national championship and their coach is legit. Seems like a coach we could steal with Del Conte's relationship. 

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#285
in honor of the best athletic department in the country 🤘#HookEm

 

#286
your 2023-24 Learfield Directors’ Cup and Women’s Capital One Cup Champions! 🏆🤘#HookEm

 

#287
On 7/25/2024 at 12:09 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

More women's sports incoming. 

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Of the current NCAA sports, Texas does not have bowling, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, water polo

Ice Hockey and Skiing would make no sense for obvious reasons

Field hockey, lacrosse, and water polo would be a challenge as there's no nearby schools

NCAA fencing is dying

Gymnastics would make the most sense with the SEC and the huge talent pool in the state with so many elite gyms. Plus Texas could use Mary Lou Retton for publicity material. Gymnastics only covers 12 scholarship spots. 

Rifle would be interesting as stated TCU. Bowling is very plausible given that SFA and Sam Houston have well established programs, there's also TX State and Prairie View in the state. 

There are also sports with emerging designation- triathlon, acrobatics and tumbling, wrestling, rugby, equestrian...

#288
7 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Of the current NCAA sports, Texas does not have bowling, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, water polo

Ice Hockey and Skiing would make no sense for obvious reasons

Field hockey, lacrosse, and water polo would be a challenge as there's no nearby schools

NCAA fencing is dying

Gymnastics would make the most sense with the SEC and the huge talent pool in the state with so many elite gyms. Plus Texas could use Mary Lou Retton for publicity material. Gymnastics only covers 12 scholarship spots. 

Rifle would be interesting as stated TCU. Bowling is very plausible given that SFA and Sam Houston have well established programs, there's also TX State and Prairie View in the state. 

There are also sports with emerging designation- triathlon, acrobatics and tumbling, wrestling, rugby, equestrian...

Wrestling is absolutely an established NCAA sport. 

#289
6 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Wrestling is absolutely an established NCAA sport. 

Meant women wrestling

#290
26 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Field hockey, lacrosse, and water polo would be a challenge as there's no nearby schools

Not a barrier at all.  Air Force has had a D1 team since 1967, Denver since 1999, Utah in 2019.  AF and Utah play in a conference with teams from GA, NC, KY and FL, which would be the most likely landing spot for a men's lacrosse program.  Denver plays in the Big East vs teams from WI, DC, RI, NY and PA.  The women would likely play in the Big12 w/ ASU, SDSU, CU, UF, and Cinci.

#291
1 hour ago, Mittens said:

Not a barrier at all.  Air Force has had a D1 team since 1967, Denver since 1999, Utah in 2019.  AF and Utah play in a conference with teams from GA, NC, KY and FL, which would be the most likely landing spot for a men's lacrosse program.  Denver plays in the Big East vs teams from WI, DC, RI, NY and PA.  The women would likely play in the Big12 w/ ASU, SDSU, CU, UF, and Cinci.

I'm pretty sure this was in the context of adding women's sports, so Air Force and Utah do not have teams.  Assuming the Big 12 does not harbor any hard feelings, I assume they would play there as well.

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10. @FloridaGators -0.50011. @AuburnTigers -0.44812. @OU_Athletics -0.40913. @UGAAthletics -0.39614. @LSUsports -0.38315. @OleMissSports -0.38316. @UA_Athletics -0.344Check earlier posts for scoring system explanation

 

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#295

Stanford softball and WBB are not going to be good, or at least their usual top 8 finish. 

#297

Beach volleyball has never helped us before and we’ve won 3 out of the past 4 directors cups.

#298

we absolutely need to do bowling and have it at texas union.  while we are at it we should push for billiards, foosball and darts, with the requirement that you must drink beer and have your own stein with uniform # on it, hanging above the bar.

#299

Bowling and darts? I still have 4 years of eligibility! 

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