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Re: As we knew all along... - stupac2 - 12-02-2014
...How are we #18 in athletics if Harvard is #9? I can see us being low if all you care about is football and basketball (but even then we should be fairly high...), but below Harvard? That's a serious wtf.
Re: As we knew all along... - BostonCard - 12-02-2014
Please explain how Harvard's athletics are ranked #9 in the nation.
BC
Re: As we knew all along... - Leftcoast - 12-02-2014
Forget Harvard - They have B.erkeley at #10. That's eight slots ahead of us for those scoring at home.
Huh?
Perhaps the scoring team REALLY, REALLY likes Rugby.
(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)
Re: As we knew all along... - French Rage - 12-02-2014
(12-02-2014, 05:58 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)
Yeah as a Cornell undergrad I have no idea where that came from. I guess the basketball team's single DI victory last year really impressed them.
Re: As we knew all along... - Gauss - 12-02-2014
(12-02-2014, 05:58 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:Forget Harvard - They have B.erkeley at #10. That's eight slots ahead of us for those scoring at home.
Huh?
Perhaps the scoring team REALLY, REALLY likes Rugby.
(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)
Clearly it's not only the varsity level athletes that go into their classification, as they are trying to gauge how much athletics would affect attending student. In their full methodology page they explain that intramural leagues are included as well:
Quote:Sports (5%): Best intramural sports (1.67%, Niche); number of varsity athletes and division classification (1.67% each, U.S. Department of Education).
Re: As we knew all along... - Stymie - 12-03-2014
Last time I was at Harvard (October 2012) I watched a Quidditch tournament invovling Harvard and another 7 local universities, which was fascinating. Does Stanford have a competitive Quidditch team? If not, maybe this is our problem.....
Re: As we knew all along... - yvonne - 12-03-2014
Stanford Quidditch won the Big Sweep last month.
https://www.facebook.com/StanfordQuidditch
Re: As we knew all along... - BostonCard - 12-03-2014
(12-02-2014, 10:30 PM)Gauss link Wrote:[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=11265.msg107243#msg107243 date=1417568318]
Forget Harvard - They have B.erkeley at #10. That's eight slots ahead of us for those scoring at home.
Huh?
Perhaps the scoring team REALLY, REALLY likes Rugby.
(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)
Clearly it's not only the varsity level athletes that go into their classification, as they are trying to gauge how much athletics would affect attending student. In their full methodology page they explain that intramural leagues are included as well:
Quote:Sports (5%): Best intramural sports (1.67%, Niche); number of varsity athletes and division classification (1.67% each, U.S. Department of Education).[/quote]
OK, but IM sports at Stanford are pretty strong. It is hard to believe that the ivy league teams have more varsity athletes and better intramural sports, and that the difference is large enough to overcome Stanford's advantage in division classification (unless, the Ivy Leagues are simply considered Div. I, with no distinction between Div 1A and Div 1AA [now that D1A has a playoff, is it still called the FBS?])
BC
From what the pics show, Quidditch is... - Redrum - 12-03-2014
...sort of like that oddball German/European sport of team handball, only with a much smaller goal. Either that, or it's all a great RF. Anybody got a capsule explanation of game and rules?
Re: As we knew all along... - yvonne - 12-03-2014
Here are the US muggle rules for quidditch: http://www.usquidditch.org/about/rules
These differ from wizarding quidditch, in which the snitch is self-propelled, and the players fly on their brooms.
Re: As we knew all along... - M T - 12-03-2014
Per http://ope.ed.gov/
Stanford has 839 participants in varsity sports (no indication of how many of those are no longer undergraduates) out of 6,980 students, at a rate of about 12%.
Princeton had 1051 participants in varsity sports out of 5,234 (20%)
My alma mater is much smaller and has a rate of 25%. Claremont McKenna lists 494 participants out of 1307 students (38%).
Obviously the quality of Stanford's varsity sports is #1, but the quantity of students nor the student ratio is not #1.
Gawd. THAT was funny - Redrum - 12-03-2014
Terrestrially-bound bipeds running around with a completely non-functional broom between their legs at all times. In Harry Potter novels/movies the brooms have a vital purpose & are an essential part of the game. In this version of quidditch, they contribute nothing and are an actual handicap to performance.
Sort of like the venerable three-legged race where the object is to see how funny it is to hobble people and see how they cope.