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MT nailed it two months ago.  Stanford will finish second to Texas again:

June16DIOverall (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (nacda.com)

Texas leads by 97.25 points with Baseball remaining and both teams at Omaha.

Geaux Cardinal!

I haven't run the numbers in quite a while, but I am sure Texas has done even better than last year.  Their positioning in the T&F sports (6 championships available between Indoor, Outdoor & Cross-country) is going to make them tough to beat.  They've clearly matched their sports budget to track the NACDA limit on number of scoring sports.  One has to tip the hat to the limited number of NCAA teams they field.

HOWEVER, I'm sure that Stanford scored more points than Texas overall by more than 50 points when all sports are counted, not using some artificial limit.   The public should be pushing to get NACDA to remove the limit on the number of sports, as it allows big schools like Texas to ignore some of the sports when they clearly have the capacity to include more student-athletes.

As I've said before, Stanford is losing more points by sports being dropped from the scoring than any team is scoring TOTAL across the required sports (Texas is close, and may exceed that number).  It looks like Stanford will be 2nd in scoring across the required sports. (The required WVB scored only 50 points this year - down by 50 from the best possible finish. Dropping the 54 points from fencing hurts more than that. Dropping the 56 points from MGolf hurt even more.)

If I understand the numbers correctly, Stanford has around 6,500 undergrads;  UT-Austin had over 9,000 freshmen this year (a record;  40,000 total undergrads in 2019 - the senior class is by far the biggest (as it collects people from different incoming years)); Michigan had over 32,000 undergrads this year.

IMO, if NIL continues, it will allow schools big schools like Texas to bypass scholarship limits in the sports they choose to finance.  With 6x the number of alumni per year, alumni can finance a lot of athletes outside the school's NCAA scholarship limits.   Maybe women rowers at Texas will get big NIL deals.
(Oooops... I shouldn't assume 40K current students graduate ....   Ok, it is more like 5x the number of alumni per year.)

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MT nailed it two months ago.  Stanford will finish second to Texas again:

June16DIOverall (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (nacda.com)

Texas leads by 97.25 points with Baseball remaining and both teams at Omaha.

Geaux Cardinal!

I haven't run the numbers in quite a while, but I am sure Texas has done even better than last year.  Their positioning in the T&F sports (6 championships available between Indoor, Outdoor & Cross-country) is going to make them tough to beat.  They've clearly matched their sports budget to track the NACDA limit on number of scoring sports.  One has to tip the hat to the limited number of NCAA teams they field.

HOWEVER, I'm sure that Stanford scored more points than Texas overall by more than 50 points when all sports are counted, not using some artificial limit.   The public should be pushing to get NACDA to remove the limit on the number of sports, as it allows big schools like Texas to ignore some of the sports when they clearly have the capacity to include more student-athletes.

As I've said before, Stanford is losing more points by sports being dropped from the scoring than any team is scoring TOTAL across the required sports (Texas is close, and may exceed that number).  It looks like Stanford will be 2nd in scoring across the required sports. (The required WVB scored only 50 points this year - down by 50 from the best possible finish. Dropping the 54 points from fencing hurts more than that. Dropping the 56 points from MGolf hurt even more.)

If I understand the numbers correctly, Stanford has around 6,500 undergrads;  UT-Austin had over 9,000 freshmen this year (a record;  40,000 total undergrads in 2019 - the senior class is by far the biggest (as it collects people from different incoming years)); Michigan had over 32,000 undergrads this year.

IMO, if NIL continues, it will allow schools big schools like Texas to bypass scholarship limits in the sports they choose to finance.  With 6x the number of alumni per year, alumni can finance a lot of athletes outside the school's NCAA scholarship limits.   Maybe women rowers at Texas will get big NIL deals.
(Oooops... I shouldn't assume 40K current students graduate ....   Ok, it is more like 5x the number of alumni per year.)