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Most of my friends believe like myself the Directors Cup is far more important than the single victory. 
Look at today we win on a penalty with 11 seconds left.  No skill in getting the penalty shot just pure luck and while the shot was great it was certainly a crap shoot.  So much luck in winning it all.  The Cup is so many sports so many athletes doing well to great

That said thank you Viking  Guy.  What a great post. 

T&F will do well but top 10 depends on Maks and Solomon for the men and Bain's health for the women.

Today Harrison Williams was 2nd the the pac 12 decathlon breaking Stanford's oldest school record set in 1952 by Bob Mathias.

It is precisely because of the unpredictability that the championship streak is so impressive.  At some point, you'd have thought the stars wouldn't align, and we wouldn't win a championship out of the four or five teams that are good enough to have a realistic shot each year.  And yet, for each and every one of the last 39 years, we've had one or more teams come through.

To put this into perspective, I think of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak.  A lot of luck is involved in putting together that streak, and it ended because of some nice defensive work by the Indian's third baseman (he then out on a 16-game streak, so with a little break, he'd have hit in 73 consecutive games).  The directors cup is like winning the batting title; the championship streak, and the fact that no one else has been close is like DiMaggio's hit streak.  The former probably matters more over the course of a season, but the latter is more memorable.

Don't get me wrong, I want to win the directors cup.  But I will be sadder when we don't keep the national title streak up.

BC

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Most of my friends believe like myself the Directors Cup is far more important than the single victory. 
Look at today we win on a penalty with 11 seconds left.  No skill in getting the penalty shot just pure luck and while the shot was great it was certainly a crap shoot.  So much luck in winning it all.  The Cup is so many sports so many athletes doing well to great

That said thank you Viking  Guy.  What a great post. 

T&F will do well but top 10 depends on Maks and Solomon for the men and Bain's health for the women.

Today Harrison Williams was 2nd the the pac 12 decathlon breaking Stanford's oldest school record set in 1952 by Bob Mathias.

It is precisely because of the unpredictability that the championship streak is so impressive.  At some point, you'd have thought the stars wouldn't align, and we wouldn't win a championship out of the four or five teams that are good enough to have a realistic shot each year.  And yet, for each and every one of the last 39 years, we've had one or more teams come through.

To put this into perspective, I think of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak.  A lot of luck is involved in putting together that streak, and it ended because of some nice defensive work by the Indian's third baseman (he then out on a 16-game streak, so with a little break, he'd have hit in 73 consecutive games).  The directors cup is like winning the batting title; the championship streak, and the fact that no one else has been close is like DiMaggio's hit streak.  The former probably matters more over the course of a season, but the latter is more memorable.

Don't get me wrong, I want to win the directors cup.  But I will be sadder when we don't keep the national title streak up.

BC