06-16-2021, 08:30 AM
I guess I am a contrarian, but I have no excitement about the "Director's Cup" one way or the other. It isn't really reflective of anything IMHO. It is a contrived competition where the scoring metrics are tweaked endlessly for no defined reason. It takes a dedicated effort to know who is winning moment to moment. One year a sport is mandatory, next year it only counts if you are left handed and wear a blue shirt. God forbid you score in too many sports, because then you can't count some of them. All sports are equal but some are more equal than others, except when they are not.
It is all fine and good that Stanford has done very well in this "event", but I don't judge Stanford athletics by winning or not winning the Director's Cup. I strongly suspect that UT did not start out the year saying "Well, we may suck at football, but by God we are going to win the Directors Cup". I just don't think it measures anything "real".
It is all fine and good that Stanford has done very well in this "event", but I don't judge Stanford athletics by winning or not winning the Director's Cup. I strongly suspect that UT did not start out the year saying "Well, we may suck at football, but by God we are going to win the Directors Cup". I just don't think it measures anything "real".