[Farm93]

I know I can't expect perfection, but we had three fall sports go into the NCAA tournament as the #1 seed--women's soccer, men's water polo (at home, no less), and women's volleyball. Volleyball isn't done yet, and perhaps it's just my sky-high expectations of these Olympic sports, but I thought we'd net a title or two.  We still might get one, and I completely recognize I'm being unreasonable, but I can't help feeling a little disappointed.  

My goodness, the expectations this athletic department hath wrought!

Yeah, what he said.

Stanford might "only" get six NACDA top 5 finishes in the fall sports (MXC, WXC, MSoc, WSoc, MWP, WVB). 
Then add in that football could have a 9 win season and field hockey won their division during their regular season.
And all of that together will actually be seen as a disappointing start to the year to many Stanford types. 

Most schools can't begin to match that result since few field all eight.  Still very few programs are going to post more than 2 top 5 finishes, forget 6 with dreams of 7 or 8.

The Big Game win was great, but I was a bit sad knowing how awful the rest of that weekend was for Stanford Athletics.

[Farm93]

I know I can't expect perfection, but we had three fall sports go into the NCAA tournament as the #1 seed--women's soccer, men's water polo (at home, no less), and women's volleyball. Volleyball isn't done yet, and perhaps it's just my sky-high expectations of these Olympic sports, but I thought we'd net a title or two.  We still might get one, and I completely recognize I'm being unreasonable, but I can't help feeling a little disappointed.  

My goodness, the expectations this athletic department hath wrought!

Yeah, what he said.

Stanford might "only" get six NACDA top 5 finishes in the fall sports (MXC, WXC, MSoc, WSoc, MWP, WVB). 
Then add in that football could have a 9 win season and field hockey won their division during their regular season.
And all of that together will actually be seen as a disappointing start to the year to many Stanford types. 

Most schools can't begin to match that result since few field all eight.  Still very few programs are going to post more than 2 top 5 finishes, forget 6 with dreams of 7 or 8.

The Big Game win was great, but I was a bit sad knowing how awful the rest of that weekend was for Stanford Athletics.