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  • Derka changed the title to Texas wins the 2024-2025 Director’s Cup- Fourth Win in Five Years
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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. 

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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?

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Posted (edited)

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.

Edited by Hayduke

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