Tennessee, #6, In the Updated Directors Cup

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#51
XtennesseeX said:
Stanford gets too much love in the Directors Cup. They win it every year. What kind of Championships are they winning?Seriously...
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One of the reasons Stanford wins it every year is because they field 31 varsity sports, which is basically every NCAA-sanctioned sport except men's and women's ice hockey. (For comparison, UT has 18 sports) There is no part of the Director's Cup formula that considers number-of-sports fielded by a given school. Dividing the total points by number of sports I believe would make a difference, and greatly change the current standings.

Stanford's 19 club sports are also under the direction of the athletic department and not the recreation department (like at UT). However, I don't think they would get additional points for those non-varsity sports.

Among the sports Stanford fields that we don't offer:
Fencing
Field Hockey
Men's Gymnastics
Women's Gymnastics
Women's Lacrosse
Men's Rowing
Lightweight Women's Rowing
Sailing
Men's Soccer
Women's Squash
Synchronized Swimming (immidiately, images of the old SNL skit come to mind:lolabove: )
Men's Volleyball
Men's Water Polo
Women's Water Polo
Wrestling (not rasslin')
 
#52
#52
droski said:
Navy beat Stanford by wide margin last season, so you have a point. :) I'm not saying stanford will be 0-12 every season, just that it is a huge uphill battle for them to be consistantly a top program in a major conference. They also recently raised their requirements. And the coaching has stunk which hasn't helped. I have many stanford friends and they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel unless the administration changes things. Stanford wont even pay it's coaches a market wage, they've been at the bottom of the pac-10 salary wise for years.
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When Harbaugh gets the Stanford program on track, they will consistantly handle you guys. They have nicer facilities than you, a young, hip, coach with a recognizable name and proven track record at a D 1-AA school with no scholarships. Plus, Tedford will be gone, soon.

While they may not be able to recruit all the guys Cal can because of academic restrictions, the difference doesn't seem to be that grand.
 
#53
#53
The Dude said:
When Harbaugh gets the Stanford program on track, they will consistantly handle you guys. They have nicer facilities than you, a young, hip, coach with a recognizable name and proven track record at a D 1-AA school with no scholarships. Plus, Tedford will be gone, soon.

While they may not be able to recruit all the guys Cal can because of academic restrictions, the difference doesn't seem to be that grand.
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How do you figure the difference doesn't seem to be that grand when montomery was having problems filling a BASKETBALL roster with qualified kids. Imagine needing 8 times that number of kids.

Not going to happen. If harbaugh is a success (which is unlikely) they will not pay for him to stay. They have never paid market value for a coach. And they've been saying tedford will be gone soon for 5 years now. Even the most optomistic stanford fans don't think they will catch cal soon, trust me. Years of bad recruiting and awful coaches don't go away overnight. As for the "nicer facilities" were building a $125 mil training facility that will be far better than anything stanford has.

And as for harbaugh's "proven track record" how come colorado state turned him down?

edit: you guys don't realize how ignorant you sound with this harbaugh stuff. It's like if I came on here and told you vandy's new coach (who has never coached div 1a) would start dominating the SEC. They have the worst recruiting and talent in the pac-10 BY A WIDE MARGIN. That 1-11 record didn't come out of nowhere. AND they lost their bets players from that team. If he get's them to 4-8 he should win coach of the year. The san jose state game is the only winnable game on the schedule. Walt harris wasn't even that bad of a coach and he couldn't get him out of the cellar. At least walt had some experience.
 
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#54
According to rivals Furd recruiting:
2004: 10th in the pac-10
2005: 7th in the pac-10
2006: 10th in the pac-10
2007: 9th in the pac-10

And the funny part is the 4 or 5 star guys they have got have ALL been busts. Every single one. So in reality their recruiting has been WORSE than the rankings.

edit: and you think rankings like this are an accident? You think it's hard to recruit kids to come to northern california and get a stanford degree? Corvallis, Eugene, Pullman, these are easier places to recruit to?
 
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#55
I have to agree with Droski on this one. As long as there is a decent coach in Berkeley, Stanford will not be able to consistently compete with Cal on the football field. If the Bears beat the Trees this coming season, Cal will break their record from 1919-1923 for having their longest-ever win streak over Stanford. I don't see it slowing down, either, unless Tedford departs and isn't adequately replaced.
 
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#56
droski said:
edit: and you think rankings like this are an accident? You think it's hard to recruit kids to come to northern california and get a stanford degree? Corvallis, Eugene, Pullman, these are easier places to recruit to?
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I can't imagine Tucson being a dreamland for a college kid, either.
 
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