Texas wins Director's Cup- ends 25 year win streak by Stanford

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The University of Texas Takes Home the Crown

July 2, 2021 by Jennifer Duncan  
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CLEVELAND (July 2, 2021) – For just the second time in Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup history, an institution other than Stanford University sits atop the standings at the end of a season, with the 2020-21 Cup heading to Austin for The University of Texas. The Longhorns took home three national championships – men’s swimming and diving and both women’s rowing and women’s tennis – and a runner-up finish in women’s volleyball. Texas took home the title with 1252 total points.
 
In the 28-year history of the Cup, Texas has finished second overall three times prior to its Cup win this year, including 19 top-10 finishes in the final standings. The Longhorns scored in all four mandatory sports – women’s volleyball and basketball and men’s basketball and baseball – and 13 out of the 15 additional sports.
 
The Stanford Cardinal finished second overall with 1195.75 points with a pair of national championships in women’s basketball, and men’s gymnastics. The Cardinal tallied scores in 17 total sports, including two of the four mandatory sports, women’s basketball and baseball. Stanford finished second with 1195.75 points.
 
Third and fourth place finishers, Michigan and North Carolina, were separated by just .25 points, 1126.50-1126.25. The Wolverines took home the women’s gymnastics national championship, along with 10 top-10 showings across the 18 sports that they scored in. North Carolina took home the field hockey national title and recorded five top-three finishes – men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s lacrosse and women’s tennis.
 
Rounding out the top five is Florida with 1121.75 points. The Gators won the men’s tennis title and had six additional top-five finishes – women’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics, men’s swimming and diving, men’s indoor and outdoor track & field and women’s lacrosse,  

Edited July 3, 2021 by shadow_operative

[TwiceHorn 31989]

CDC is an empty suit.

[Hook1997 5486]

What’s this capital cup shit that doesn’t even have us in the top five?  10th in women’s and not ranked in men’s?  Supposedly the same kinda thing ran by capital one. 

Edited July 3, 2021 by Hook1997

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6 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

What’s this capital cup shit that doesn’t even have us in the top five?  10th in women’s and not ranked in men’s?  Supposedly the same kinda thing ran by capital one. 

It has a two tier scoring system. Sports like football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer and lacrosse count more than other sports.

Winning a championship in one of those 6 is 60 points, versus 20 for another sport like CC, golf, tennis, rowing, track/field, volleyball, swim/dive.  It’s 3x more points by finish (1st to 10th) for those 6

The men outright sucked in postseason scoring for football and basketball. 

Edited July 3, 2021 by Js1

[Pato del Muerto 53334]

This is already helping turn the tide in the Texas vs Stanford offensive lineman battles

[XForce 218]

This is already helping turn the tide in the Texas vs Stanford offensive lineman battles

Stanford fans will soon be saying “well it’s Texas, can’t blame the kid, they’re the only one that can compete with us in the Directors cup”.

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[honolulu horn 6211]

I'm all for celebrating any sort of win or recognition for Texas, but as someone else posted previously, an athletic competition in which Stanford wins 26 of 28 times sorta seems like bullshit. 

[Js1 86945]

1 minute ago, honolulu horn said:

I'm all for celebrating any sort of win or recognition for Texas, but as someone else posted previously, an athletic competition in which Stanford wins 26 of 28 times sorta seems like bullshit. 

They eventually changed the scoring in a way that didn’t benefit a school that endows like 75 sports

[Armybrat 41322]

[TreatyOak 17199]

[TreatyOak 17199]

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

That’s NOT championship level pee. 

[TexArcher 38816]

That's a 7-5 piss bucket right there and it's holding two gallons of apple juice.

[A’Dam Psycho 1490]

Not bad for our apparent toxic athletic department 

[TheFlyingBoat 913]

On 7/3/2021 at 11:17 AM, honolulu horn said:

I'm all for celebrating any sort of win or recognition for Texas, but as someone else posted previously, an athletic competition in which Stanford wins 26 of 28 times sorta seems like bullshit. 

I mean they are undeniably the best non-revenue sports school in the country. It's absolutely legit if you treat excellence in the Olympic sports as important.

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[LW Goatman 1129]

Pretty cool accomplishment. 

[pyrohornIII 4844]

So this is just for the Spring, or overall?  The split up rankings by Fall and Spring is confusing. 

This kind of stuff makes me wonder why we don't field teams in water polo and gymnastics.    I see where Wally Pryor played on UT water polo in 49.  What else does UT not compete in?  Beach VB?  Men's VB?

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