M 4th in Director's Cup at Final Winter Standings
Michigan jumped to 4th place in the final winter standings for the Director's Cup.
Michigan broke into the top-five in the final winter standings after hovering close at the end of the fall season and the first set of winter scoring. The Wolverines have scored in eight winter championships, including finishing second overall in the most recent men's gymnastics championship and tied for third in men's ice hockey.
Still plenty of opportunities to score points in the Spring and move up, hopefully grabbing a 2nd place finish. Despite getting unseated in '21 and '22, it's unlikely anyone will overtake Stanford this year, as per usual.
April 25th, 2024 at 10:55 AM ^
Stanford can chew on my dingleberries.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:27 AM ^
fuck stanfurd
sincerely,
a Cal alum
April 25th, 2024 at 11:52 AM ^
More like Stanturd, am I right?
Leland Stanford was a robber baron!
April 25th, 2024 at 10:57 AM ^
Does anyone other than Stanford ever win the Director’s Cup?
April 25th, 2024 at 11:14 AM ^
Not really, no. Since 1994, they've finished 1st all but two years ('21 and '22, when Texas won).
April 25th, 2024 at 11:15 AM ^
I’d wager Stanford students would be glad to trade at least 3 or 4 Director’s Cups for one CFP championship.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:22 AM ^
Their home football attendance doesn't really agree. I don't think that's a campus community that really cares, at least not relative to B1G or SEC schools.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:27 AM ^
This is true but also setting rhe level at Big Ten/SEC is a new and annoying metric. Go to Berkeley on gameday - the campus is still abuzz, and produced the likes if Beast Mode and Aaron Rodgers quite recently. And even if Stanford cares a lot about their other sports and cares less than the Big Ten about football - they still almost certainly care more about football than everything else, because this is America and people care about FB and then basketball and sowmtimes baseball and/or hockey.
Just because Fox/ESPN have turned CFB into a stupid game of risk doesnt mean fans have to blindly obey. Let smaller resourced schools enjoy their nice things, including FB.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:36 AM ^
I'm not trying to totally crap on those places, but I wouldn't characterize Rodgers as "quite recent," he was drafted in 2005. 19 years ago. It's just that I've watched recent PAC games on TV and the atmosphere is noticeably different. The Rose Bowl is freakin empty when UCLA plays home games, so is Stanford's stadium. I agree people should enjoy things, but it objectively looks like it's not large numbers of people in the case of some of these west coast schools, and Stanford in particular.
The CFB arms race has probably contributed to that by making mid-size ADs less able to compete, and I don't cheer that reality on. I'd like nothing more than to go back to before Maryland and Rutgers joined the B1G. But this is the reality we live in, and I don't think it's worthwhile to pretend that Stanford has a comparable level of fan engagement as Michigan.
UCLA alum here (and no, I'm not a UCLA fan)...
The Rose Bowl is located nowhere near campus. There's buses and things but that takes effort and costs money which aren't really things college kids want to deal with. Imagine if U of M decided to play football at Ford Field. That's about the same amount of effort to get from campus to the stadium.
Back when I was a UCLA student (graduated in 2008) they had more NCAA championships than anyone but I guess Stanford has passed them.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:40 AM ^
Cal, for being a bad football program, has put a ton of dudes in the NFL
Keenan Allen, Jared Goff, the trio of Cams (Cam Goode, Cam Gordon, Cam Bynum), Nnamdi Asomugha, JJ Arrington, Jahvid Best, DeSean Jackson, Tony Gonzales, Brandon Mebane, Tarik Glenn, Hardy Nickerson, and a bunch of dudes in the 60s and 70s.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:44 AM ^
Aaron Rodgers: How can someone so smart be so stupid.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:47 AM ^
Dunning-Krueger case study, IMO.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:24 AM ^
I doubt they care either way. They're too busy cramming computer chips up their b-holes.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:44 AM ^
Some of them, sure.
That said, I'd wager most of the students probably don't care beyond surface level interest and "well its my school so I'll root for them, I guess." Stanford has a lot of great athletic programs (obviously), but its never struck me as a school who's general student body really cares about those athletic programs. At least not to the degree you'd see at Michigan.
Most of them are all too busy getting ready to be our bosses one day.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:49 AM ^
It is puzzling why Texas does not win this thing every year.
April 25th, 2024 at 11:53 AM ^
I went to their site to see the full rankings. I think it was built by Huel. Completely impossible to navigate.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. 😞
Our Bowling and Fencing teams really need to improve ; )
12% of Stanford undergrads are scholarship athletes.
The B1G had 5 of the top 9 as Nebraska, OSU and Wisky finished 7, 8, and 9th
After last year, I'm not saying anything. 🤐