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  • Derka changed the title to Texas wins the 2024-2025 Director’s Cup- Fourth Win in Five Years
12 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

incredible.  i remember for so long thinking there was no chance anyone but stanford could win.  now here we are 

They re-did the scoring system which took away an imbalance that gave Stanford a massive advantage. 

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yeah, once we stopped getting penalized for not having water polo and gymnastics shit got real real for stanford, real fast. 

8 hours ago, Derka said:

yeah, once we stopped getting penalized for not having water polo and gymnastics shit got real real for stanford, real fast. 

Really?

Bobby Burton said this morning that if a Stanford runner had finished second in her race instead of third, Stanford would have won the cup. 

Just now, Red Five said:

Bobby Burton said this morning that if a Stanford runner had finished second in her race instead of third, Stanford would have won the cup. 

And if two Texas runners on each side don’t DQ, we score more points.

Or if USC doesn’t split the men’s title, they win

Or if Texas Baseball doesn’t choke in the regional, we win it going away 

It was a lot of “ifs” for Texas, USC and Tree. All the luck fell on our side at the end. And clutchness (Softball)

 

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10 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Bobby Burton said this morning that if a Stanford runner had finished second in her race instead of third, Stanford would have won the cup. 

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

My dad loved that saying. Happy Father's Day, Dad. Miss you lots!

We needed the 5 points for making the men's basketball play-in 😂

10 hours ago, Derka said:

yeah, once we stopped getting penalized for not having water polo and gymnastics shit got real real for stanford, real fast. 

Curious what the final numbers would have looked like in other years, given the more common sense scoring system.

4 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

Really?

It wasn't a direct "penalty", but they used to count up to 20 sports, with no more than 10 for either gender.

Now it's the top 19 sports with some written in to be counted regardless.  It reduces some of the Pac 10/12 schools' inherent advantage of yore.

Del (DeLoss' name for him) doin' work!  We're lucky to have that guy.

Wikipedia has a fairly good look at the history and the scoring system for NACDA, including suggestions for other potential ways of scoring.

The system for the NACDA award was changed in 2017.  UT first won a few years later and has since done well, but this chart makes it clear that only a few schools have a shot (chart from Wikipedia and obviously still needs an update since yesterday). UNC won the first and Stanford won the next 25, until 2021:

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But there was another major trophy similar to the Director's Cup, because if I recall correctly Texas got it at least once or twice back in the late 2000s and perhaps before. Don't have time to look that up now, but I'm sure somebody else will.

Edit: Although it could have been that we gave more attention to the split for men and women, and maybe UT won one sex/gender -- no CR -- or the other in various years.

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3 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Maybe they should change the name to the Stanford Director's Cup....or not. 

Maybe they should name it “when the playing field is level Texas will fuck your shit up” trophy. 

3 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Maybe they should change the name to the Stanford Director's Cup....or not. 

 

Del Conte Cup

In all fairness, props to Tree. The concept of an all-sport trophy had to be modified to keep a nerd school in the Bay Area from dominating it for decades on end. It feels nice to win, but honestly I'd take a FB championship over a director's cup.

13 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

In all fairness, props to Tree. The concept of an all-sport trophy had to be modified to keep a nerd school in the Bay Area from dominating it for decades on end. It feels nice to win, but honestly I'd take a FB championship over a director's cup.

They dominated by scoring some points in like 40 sports, some of which have very few participants to begin with so a top 10 finish is much easier. Who has gymnastics, fencing, and water polo?  
 

hence the format change. 

6 hours ago, Hayduke said:

Wikipedia has a fairly good look at the history and the scoring system for NACDA, including suggestions for other potential ways of scoring.

The system for the NACDA award was changed in 2017.  UT first won a few years later and has since done well, but this chart makes it clear that only a few schools have a shot (chart from Wikipedia and obviously still needs an update since yesterday). UNC won the first and Stanford won the next 25, until 2021:

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But there was another major trophy similar to the Director's Cup, because if I recall correctly Texas got it at least once or twice back in the late 2000s and perhaps before. Don't have time to look that up now, but I'm sure somebody else will.

Edit: Although it could have been that we gave more attention to the split for men and women, and maybe UT won one sex/gender -- no CR -- or the other in various years.

Looking at that list is really interesting. The top 7 on there are also outstanding academically. Who has the best party atmosphere/hot wimminz to take the all-around greatest university title???

6 hours ago, Hayduke said:

……But there was another major trophy similar to the Director's Cup, because if I recall correctly Texas got it at least once or twice back in the late 2000s and perhaps before. Don't have time to look that up now, but I'm sure somebody else will.

 

Off of memory…wasn’t it the Sears Trophy?

4 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Off of memory…wasn’t it the Sears Trophy?

That was the sponsor of the Directors Cup before 2004

Maybe the Capital One Cup?

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

That was the sponsor of the Directors Cup before 2004

Maybe the Capital One Cup?

Yep ... thanks. Here's an entry on Wikipedia.  The chart on that page starts with the 2010-2011 school year, which apparently is the year the C1 cup started. IIRC, Texas men, I think, won something similar in one of the previous couple of years. The chart shows Texas women winning in 2021-22 and 2022-23. It's apparently still being awarded.

But I could swear I had an Alcalde magazine from around 2008-2009 that had a cover story on the men, or maybe both, winning the competition. May take a while to figure out what the heck it was.

 

I checked directors cup guy updates Saturday afternoon and nothing (considering he’s a Texas guy) and then looked at the track and field thread and thought we lost for sure.  Then get a notification we won that night!  So USC really screwed the pooch in track huh?  Pretty amazing accomplishment four out of five years with the number of sports vs a Stanford.  We need to add some more sports to make it even easier lol.  🤘🏼

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Is this the first time the SEC has won the Director's Cup?

32 minutes ago, n64ra said:

Is this the first time the SEC has won the Director's Cup?

Apparently yes 

11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Apparently yes 

what a loser conference that needs somebody new to come in to win this little old participation trophy for them 

On 6/15/2025 at 10:02 AM, Js1 said:

And if two Texas runners on each side don’t DQ, we score more points.

Or if USC doesn’t split the men’s title, they win

Or if Texas Baseball doesn’t choke in the regional, we win it going away 

It was a lot of “ifs” for Texas, USC and Tree. All the luck fell on our side at the end. And clutchness (Softball)

 

The split title is the best.

A&M splitting the men’s title with USC meant that USC only got 95 point for a  national championship.

So Aggie does get a national championship, but in doing so, they gave Texas the Director’s Cup.

I do enjoy that. 😁

36 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

We are the only winner from the big 12 and sec. Pulling double duty. 

Triple duty

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39 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Triple duty

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Texas never won it while in the SWC.  It started in 1993 and North Carolina won the first year and Stanford the next 25 times

20 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

In all fairness, props to Tree. The concept of an all-sport trophy had to be modified to keep a nerd school in the Bay Area from dominating it for decades on end. It feels nice to win, but honestly I'd take a FB championship over a director's cup.

Like most of us, I'd take a national championship in any of the Big 3 sports over a Director's Cup.

But, ain't that nice?

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