05-24-2017, 01:55 PM
The reduction applies next year (2017-2018) so this year is safe.
Going forward the change is clearly anti-Stanford, with a minimal negative impact to all other schools.
Most D1 schools are not posting results in 20 sports now so reducing the total down to 19 helps most programs.
The forced inclusion of a core 4 would not impact schools that are unable to post results in 15 sports outside of the core 4.
The core 4 concept forces Stanford to only get 15 tallies outside of the core 4 and strong potential to include a few zeros from time to time.
The elimination of 10/10 gender balance helps Stanford though as most years the 11th and 12th best women's tallies are better than the 10th on the men's side.
As the NACDA has tables for most historic years, it would be possible to see how often Stanford would fail to win. I am pretty confident Florida wins in 2013 even without running the numbers. I believe in the past I recall UCLA, Florida and USC have had better first 15 sport results than Stanford, so I can only suspect they will win from time to time now. Those three programs have very little depth, so their top 5 NACDA results are often a function of exceptional quality rather than quantity.
The NACDA originally had a set of core sports and that was key for UNC.
Ultimately, the NACDA members want to present the thing to another school from time to time. Also, a number of ADs have compensation tied to NACDA Director's cup performance, so can't help but a few of the voting members saw a way to get compensation bonuses.
Going forward the change is clearly anti-Stanford, with a minimal negative impact to all other schools.
Most D1 schools are not posting results in 20 sports now so reducing the total down to 19 helps most programs.
The forced inclusion of a core 4 would not impact schools that are unable to post results in 15 sports outside of the core 4.
The core 4 concept forces Stanford to only get 15 tallies outside of the core 4 and strong potential to include a few zeros from time to time.
The elimination of 10/10 gender balance helps Stanford though as most years the 11th and 12th best women's tallies are better than the 10th on the men's side.
As the NACDA has tables for most historic years, it would be possible to see how often Stanford would fail to win. I am pretty confident Florida wins in 2013 even without running the numbers. I believe in the past I recall UCLA, Florida and USC have had better first 15 sport results than Stanford, so I can only suspect they will win from time to time now. Those three programs have very little depth, so their top 5 NACDA results are often a function of exceptional quality rather than quantity.
The NACDA originally had a set of core sports and that was key for UNC.
Ultimately, the NACDA members want to present the thing to another school from time to time. Also, a number of ADs have compensation tied to NACDA Director's cup performance, so can't help but a few of the voting members saw a way to get compensation bonuses.