Director’s Cup (Crashed)
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After years of progress, Rutgers collapses down Directors’ Cup standings in down year for athletics
https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2023/06/...cup-standings-in-down-year-for-athletics.html
https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2023/06/...cup-standings-in-down-year-for-athletics.html
Brian probably rubbed one out while writing that article.
No Men's BB Tourney
No Men's Lax Final Four
No Women's Lax Tournament
Not hard to explain.
No Men's Lax Final Four
No Women's Lax Tournament
Not hard to explain.
Women's soccer went one and done, wrestling had an awful year by their standards, field hockey didn't get in. That's 6 sports alone that normally gives us points in the Director's Cup. Outside of men's soccer, the whole AD had a down year by their standards.
Standings since 93-94:
2022-23 #130
2021-22 #48
2020-21 #60
2019-20 #157?
2018-19 #82
2017-18 #107
2016-17 #116
2015-16 #83
2014-15 #104
2013-14 #91
2012-13 #120
2011-12 #111
2010-11 #158
2009-10 #96
2008-09 #92
2007-08 #126
2006-07 #54
2005-06 #76
2004-05 #66
2003-04 #63
2002-03 #80
2001-02 #71
2000-01 #96
1999-00 #75
1998-99 #95
1997-98 #75
1996-97 #70
1995-96 #131
1994-95 #123
1993-94 #94
2022-23 #130
2021-22 #48
2020-21 #60
2019-20 #157?
2018-19 #82
2017-18 #107
2016-17 #116
2015-16 #83
2014-15 #104
2013-14 #91
2012-13 #120
2011-12 #111
2010-11 #158
2009-10 #96
2008-09 #92
2007-08 #126
2006-07 #54
2005-06 #76
2004-05 #66
2003-04 #63
2002-03 #80
2001-02 #71
2000-01 #96
1999-00 #75
1998-99 #95
1997-98 #75
1996-97 #70
1995-96 #131
1994-95 #123
1993-94 #94
Did a little digging. Men's lacrosse to the Final Four by itself would have raised the total to 217.5, and moved from #130 to #85.
yeah.. there's a reason why some sports are competitive north to south and others are not. Baseball for example.
what I am saying is in things like directors cup, that matters.
that should not be controversial. but if you want to entertain a related controversial opinion, I think bowl games are mostly all indoors or in warm weather locations and northern teams whose players have become accustomed to the cold winter conditions in which they live every day, are at a disadvantage there as well.
Maybe you have to be a Northerner to understand how the body adapts to the seasonal changes. How, to a Northerner, 50 degrees in January is teeshirt weather but in summer it is sweatshirt weather.
Yet Ohio State is in the top 5. We have cold weather down South. We just stay out of it as much as we can. Mostly because 99% of Southerners cannot drive in the snow and ice.
Feel free to come to Arkansas today as the heat index is a mild 118 degrees. Last Sunday it was 127 in my neighborhood. Yeah, we tend to stay indoors in that as well.
I guess it is all relative. Yall are used to the cold, we are pretty used to the excessive heat. I never minded playing in snow nor high heat indexes. What I absolutely hated was the damn rain. A man could drown on the bottom of a pile of bodies in a downpour!
I am so looking forward to football this year wherever it is played! Go Knights! Go Hogs!
BTW, is THIS the year we take down Michigan at home?
Gawd I hope so. I hate those arrogant bastards.
‘Damn, Michigan is a road game! I still hate Michigan!
Let’s take OSU then. I hate them almost as much.
Gawd I hope so. I hate those arrogant bastards.
‘Damn, Michigan is a road game! I still hate Michigan!
Let’s take OSU then. I hate them almost as much.
It all depends if we actually field an offense this season. I am a little worried that Schiano will want to lean on his D to stay close in games and ask the offense to run the ball endlessly.. work clock to where we will then have a shot.
Unfortunately, Schiano's D is a well-known commodity by now and most teams are going to some kind of hurry-up/RPO hurts defenses that do a lot of stunts and blitzes no matter how well executed they are.
This is all to say that results are highly variable but if our offense can actually produce a passing threat where defenses we face have to honor that threat... then things can look up.
Good luck to your Razorbacks too. Beware that MAC team... Kent State. Don't overlook them. I have no idea if they will be better than last season but MAC teams have some history with upsets of the P5. You guys were great last year and it shouldn't be a problem... and yet.. its a MAC team.
You know as well as I do NOT to overlook ANY team! yet our hopes and dreams rise and fall each Saturday in the fall. We lost to Citadel at home one year. But that is part of what makes College football so special. Rutgers took Arkansas to the woodshed 2 years in a row. No surprise to many people that Rutgers did that. Every year and every team is different. That ball bounces in funny ways!
Hope springs eternal in early season football prognostications(see RutgersAl). But reality sets in eventually.
Can you do in a year by year scatter plot?
Rutgers needs to schedule a series with Arkansas football to help our football standings.
However, before doing so, we need John L. Smith and either Petrino or Bielema on the sidelines for the Hogs.OMG! NO! Just no.Rutgers needs to schedule a series with Arkansas football to help our football standings.
John L. Smith and Chad Morris should not ever, ever, be allowed to coach football anywhere again. Petrino is an offensive genius but could not care less about defense. I imagine the boosters at Texas A&M are considering buying him a motorcycle soon.
Bielima is searching for an “all you can eat” buffet in every town he recruits within. Illinois will be an OK team year in, year out but will never win the conference.
I think a “home and home” game would be a lot of fun for both fan bases. Arkansas fans travel well and an SEC/B1G rivalry would be something the entire country would want to watch.
Ho Hum, just a great opportunity for the SL to create a little more negativity, With FB, and BB recruiting going well, this blip on the radar could come at better time for the negatoids at the Ledger
More impactful are early investments in athletics programs that are driving success at the other schools. See Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Iowa and Wisconsin - all Cold Weather regions. Rutgers is very late to the party due to negligence from administration and AD Office of the mid 1970s (when things began to change rapidly) to 2000. Arguably, we finally woke up and realized we needed to do something beginning in about 2000. But even then it was relatively small steps due to costs rising rapidly. Real investments began only recently (mid 2010s) -- almost 40 years after others were well on their way.