Final Directors' Cup Standings

[hokie4redskins]

Based on overall athletic prowess, this is easily VT's best ranking. We'll only continue to climb in the ACC. For the "others" on this board, you'll notice WVU is ranked JUUUUUUUUUUST below VT. I only say this because 'eers live and die by rankings apparently.

http://www.techsideline.com/message_board/football/2006/June/29/2144663.php

[hokie4redskins]

http://subscr.techsideline.com/news_archive/showArticle-2121.php


Hokies Finish 45th in Directors' Cup

by Chris Coleman, TechSideline.com
Jun 30, 2006
The College World Series recently concluded, and when the results of all the sports were tallied, it was Stanford taking home the Directors’ Cup for the 12th consecutive year. But the Hokies had a pretty good year as well, finishing 45th in the nation, the highest finish in school history. As the Hokies recruit more ACC type players on their rosters, their Directors’ Cup finish keeps going up.

As you can see from the following table, the Hokies are definitely moving in the right direction.Virginia Tech has been in four different athletic conferences from the first year on that table, 1993-94, to the past athletic season. The Hokies have competed in the Metro Conference, the Atlantic Ten, the Big East and now the ACC. Just two years into their stay in the ACC, and Tech has their best two finishes in the Directors’ Cup in school history.

Virginia Tech Directors' Cup Final Standings
Year Rank
1993-94 90
1994-95 129
1995-96 91
1996-97 92
1997-98 96
1998-99 86
1999-00 63
2000-01 63
2001-02 105
2002-03 112
2003-04 79
2004-05 58
2005-06 45


Unfortunately they still have a ways to go to catch the majority of the schools in the ACC. From top to bottom, the ACC is an outstanding conference in all sports, and it shows in the final standings of the Directors’ Cup every year.

The ACC in the Directors' Cup
Team Points National Rank
UNC 952.75 4
Duke 851.25 8
Florida State 713 17
Virginia 586 26
Maryland 560.25 27
NC State 504.5 34
Clemson 477.25 39
Miami 438.25 42
Wake Forest 435 44
Virginia Tech 430.75 45
Georgia Tech 373 50
Boston College 351 51


The Hokies rank just 10th in the 12 team ACC. But on the bright side, the gap seventh place Clemson and the 10th place Hokies is very small. Clemson, Miami, Wake Forest and the Hokies are separated by very little in the final standings, and if a few games had gone differently here and there, those positions could shake up in a number of different ways.

In the latest round of scoring, the Hokies scored points in softball, women’s track and field and women’s track and field. However Tech also finished poorly in several other spring sports. The baseball team finished last in the ACC and did not qualify for the ACC tournament. The women’s lacrosse team finished last in the ACC again, and have yet to win an ACC game in two seasons. The golf team also failed to score any points.

The good news is that those programs aren’t going to get any worse. You can’t score less than zero points, so any contribution at all from those programs in the future will be considered a success. The baseball and women’s lacrosse teams will both have new coaches next season, so those programs have a chance to move in the right direction.

[PleaseBlitz]

Way to beat us in a completely meaningless ranking. :thumbsup:

You can suck it until you confine your MB comments to VT womens tennis. :laugh:

And again with the obsession. Cant you just post the link, maybe comment on VT, and leave WVU's name out of your mouth? Just once?

[Major Harris]

Way to beat us in a completely meaningless ranking. :thumbsup:

You can suck it until you confine your MB comments to VT womens tennis. :laugh:

And again with the obsession. Cant you just post the link, maybe comment on VT, and leave WVU's name out of your mouth? Just once?
pb, what are you talking about? we're the obsessed ones, remember?

[hokie4redskins]

Come on now, after cruising through this forum for the last year, it's near impossible not to associate "rankings" with the inane logic from you 'eer fans.

This link only proves the future successes of VT in the new ACC and yes, I'm stoked about it. I posted the link with pride for VT while taking a subtle pot shot at WVU. How is that any different from ANY post in ANY thread in this forum?

But enjoy slowly rotting in the Big East.

[PleaseBlitz]

Come on now, after cruising through this forum for the last year, it's near impossible not to associate "rankings" with the inane logic from you 'eer fans.

This link only proves the future successes of VT in the new ACC and yes, I'm stoked about it. I posted the link with pride for VT while taking a subtle pot shot at WVU. How is that any different from ANY post in ANY thread in this forum?

But enjoy slowly rotting in the Big East.

This link "proves" the future successes of VT? :rotflmao:

Who came up with the rankings? Nostradamus?

This link means nothing.

[SkinsHokieFan]

Good to see all the sports improving

Like many of us told those silly wahoos, a stable conference, with consistant revenue, and our sports program is going to wake up

Clearly it already has, and this was with a bad basketball year.

[mjah]

From top to bottom, the ACC is an outstanding conference in all sports
That's not exactly a secret... :cheers:

The Sears rankings obviously don't confer money or trophies, but they are an interesting reflection of a school's overall athletic health -- not just football and basketball.

[PleaseBlitz]

Even people on the Hokie MB know that this ranking means zippy:

http://www.techsideline.com/message_board/football/2006/June/30/2144717.php

Subject: Yeah, but you know what? The Director's Cup standings are irrelevant.
Posted by: HokieJay on Fri Jun 30 2006 2:19:58 AM


And I tell you what, I've been around this board long enough to know
that 90% of our current posters who are suddenly praising our ascent in
these standings used to sing the same tune I'm going to sing right now:

The Directors' Cup is nice but in no way, shape or form is a relevant
modern day indication of a school's athletic success as much as it is
it's ability to throw unlimited donations at non revenue generating
olympic sports.

If you don't follow me, note Stanford wins this thing year after year
based primarily on it's ridiculous $350M athletic endowment, part of it's
$multibillion overall school endowment which means all it's schollys are
funded forever and it can overpay all it's Coaches. Hey, congrats you
guys, God forbid you FAIL to win the cup, but tell me, can you take all
that $ and win a FB, Hoops, or Baseball Championship? Then you'll get
my respect, because you can't just buy those things, as Stanford
surely knows.

BTW, before anyone tells me that Stanford has higher admittance
standards, I don't care. Even a moron, much less a Stanford man,
knows that the NCAA has a "non-relevant to the rest of the students"
standard for FB scholarship athletes and only anal UVA fans don't
understand that this has no relevance to the overall academics of their
school.

Stanford plays the game when recruiting athletes for revenue generating
sports and they still don't win and for my money that means more than
buying great women's tennis players.

[hokie4redskins]

Yes, I'd rather have one NC in football and be last in Director's Cup standings.

What these rankings tell me, however, is that things are only going to get even better for the Hokies by being in the ACC. Football and basketball successes are a no-brainer once we establish our foothold in ACC recruiting. But becoming contenders in soccer, baseball, and even the birth of a men's lax team is in VT's future. Am I pimping our conference? Absolutely! Considering what it's done for VT in two short years and the future, it's all about the ACC.

[PleaseBlitz]

Yes, I'd rather have one NC in football and be last in Director's Cup standings.

What these rankings tell me, however, is that things are only going to get even better for the Hokies by being in the ACC. Football and basketball successes are a no-brainer once we establish our foothold in ACC recruiting. But becoming contenders in soccer, baseball, and even the birth of a men's lax team is in VT's future. Am I pimping our conference? Absolutely! Considering what it's done for VT in two short years and the future, it's all about the ACC.


An insightful post by Hokie4! :applause:


Football success is already there, basketball i will believe when i see. Teams just dont become automatically successful because of the conference they happen to be in. Proof: Clemson, FSU, Miami, UVA, Rutgers, DePaul, Providence. Even in the 2 best bball conferences in the nation, you have your perennial stinkers. From what i hear, VT bball is improving, but its going to take a LOT more than just moving from the best bball conference in the nation to the 2nd best.


The rest of those sports? Its nice to take pride in a good team, but at the end of the day, no one cares about fringe sports. :2cents:

[Diggs]

The rest of those sports? Its nice to take pride in a good team, but at the end of the day, no one cares about fringe sports. :2cents:

You're crazy. If you can't get fired up for women's rowing, then I don't know what's wrong with you. :laugh:

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Stroke! Stoke! Stroke!

[The Evil Genius]

Although to be fair, before it was cancelled as a team sport, I do remember alot of fellow WVU alum making a big deal out of the Riflery team.

Of course, when you win 9 or 10 Championships in a row in a fringe sport (actually I think it was 6 or 7), people tend to make more out of it than should be.

That said, nothing really matters after Football and Men's Basketball. :silly:

[Diggs]

Although to be fair, before it was cancelled as a team sport, I do remember alot of fellow WVU alum making a big deal out of the Riflery team.

Of course, when you win 9 or 10 Championships in a row in a fringe sport (actually I think it was 6 or 7), people tend to make more out of it than should be.

That said, nothing really matters after Football and Men's Basketball. :silly:

Yeah, WVU's rifle team kicked arse for a while. Even beat up on Army. :doh:

But, as implied, it's still riflery at the end of the day.

People can get all giddy over how their conference does in lacrosse, bowling, curling, dominoes, whatever. I root for WVU in Football and Basketball. If the other teams do well, it's just gravy.

[EersSkins05]

While I was attending WVU, Greg Jones, 4-year All-American, 4-time National Champion wrestler (who, if I'm not mistaken, never lost a match) was on the scene. And to this day, I don't know a single, solitary person that ever saw him wrestle.

Maybe other schools really do care about the fringe sports. I know I don't.

[mjah]

I can't believe you guys are trying to tear down sports like Women's Football.

They work hard for their home runs.