[Goose]

I guess I don't much care about the Cup qua Cup, but I cared about the streak and what it says about the depth of our athletic department year after year.

I understand your point, but I can't share it. Getting excited about Stanford repeatedly doing something that doesn't excite me just isn't happening

So, this is a disappointment, for sure. But it's nothing on the level of what I'll feel when the NCAA title streak ends. That is something I will truly mourn, because it's simply unbelievable that it's gone on this long. Sometimes we leave it late, but we always get the job done in the end.

FWIW, I too care much more about this streak. The metric is self-adopted. It wasn't artificially created by an outside organization. Each year, the definition of the goal is (almost) the same. It is "almost" because the NCAA does adopt new sports and drop old ones, but this is infrequent and independent of Stanford winning a championship in those sports. Many schools are happy to occasionally win any NCAA championship. Winning at least one a year is an ambitious and worthy goal IMHO.

[Goose]

I guess I don't much care about the Cup qua Cup, but I cared about the streak and what it says about the depth of our athletic department year after year.

I understand your point, but I can't share it. Getting excited about Stanford repeatedly doing something that doesn't excite me just isn't happening

So, this is a disappointment, for sure. But it's nothing on the level of what I'll feel when the NCAA title streak ends. That is something I will truly mourn, because it's simply unbelievable that it's gone on this long. Sometimes we leave it late, but we always get the job done in the end.

FWIW, I too care much more about this streak. The metric is self-adopted. It wasn't artificially created by an outside organization. Each year, the definition of the goal is (almost) the same. It is "almost" because the NCAA does adopt new sports and drop old ones, but this is infrequent and independent of Stanford winning a championship in those sports. Many schools are happy to occasionally win any NCAA championship. Winning at least one a year is an ambitious and worthy goal IMHO.