Nebraska flirting with worst-ever finish in Director's Cup
After dropping to 46th in the standings Thursday, Nebraska athletics is flirting with its worst-ever finish in the Director's Cup.
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After dropping to 46th in the standings Thursday, Nebraska athletics is flirting with its worst-ever finish in the Director's Cup.
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After dropping to 46th in the standings Thursday, Nebraska athletics is flirting with its worst-ever finish in the Director's Cup.huskerextra.com
I think many care. We may be a “football school,” but when sucking at football, also sucking at every other men’s sport (except being ok in wrestling and gymnastics) well, sucks. Trev still has work to do.
Please don't take my lack of caring in the Directors cup with not caring about the sports period. I want all of our teams to be great. Nebraska starts at a disadvantage to begin with in my opinion. We don't have the population to draw from for those, what I call 'olympic sports'. We are never going to have the numbers of locals to fill those spots in track, swimming, tennis, golf, etc. that a Stanford (or any big state like Cali, florida, texas) have. Maybe its an excuse, don't really care. Nebraska has to focus on the big boy/girl sports and yes there we have not done a good job, no argument.
Context needs to be used here. Nebraska's best finish was 20-21 and they were 35th. Now we are looking at 46 and we are panicking? They dropped 11 spots out of 137 teams. While 'not caring about the finish' might be strong, I just don't think we are in that bad of shape. This is the press trying to incite panic.
Huskers record best Directors' Cup finish in five years, measuring success in all sports
The Huskers reversed a multi-year downward trend in the Learfield Directors’ Cup — which measures success across all sports — with their best finish in five years.
It also looks to me like we are not comparing apples to apples. Not sure how it works, but does the school get to pick the 10 best sports they want counted? Skiing, Fencing, hockey.
April21Overall (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
April21Overall (PDF)
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I get I am making a lot of excuses/reasons here, but I just can't get upset over the Directors Cup, now the lack of progress in Men's basketball and football, absolutely there is an issue but I believe it is will get better.
You are not wrong that there are fairness issues depending on how many and which sports are plAyed. Everybody has to count MBB, WBB, baseball and womens volleyball. Then the next best 15 finishes in any sport and gender. Stanford plays like 36 sports so has a lot to choose from, including some not played by a lot of schools.Please don't take my lack of caring in the Directors cup with not caring about the sports period. I want all of our teams to be great. Nebraska starts at a disadvantage to begin with in my opinion. We don't have the population to draw from for those, what I call 'olympic sports'. We are never going to have the numbers of locals to fill those spots in track, swimming, tennis, golf, etc. that a Stanford (or any big state like Cali, florida, texas) have. Maybe its an excuse, don't really care. Nebraska has to focus on the big boy/girl sports and yes there we have not done a good job, no argument.
Context needs to be used here. Nebraska's best finish was 20-21 and they were 35th. Now we are looking at 46 and we are panicking? They dropped 11 spots out of 137 teams. While 'not caring about the finish' might be strong, I just don't think we are in that bad of shape. This is the press trying to incite panic.
Huskers record best Directors' Cup finish in five years, measuring success in all sports
The Huskers reversed a multi-year downward trend in the Learfield Directors’ Cup — which measures success across all sports — with their best finish in five years.omaha.com
It also looks to me like we are not comparing apples to apples. Not sure how it works, but does the school get to pick the 10 best sports they want counted? Skiing, Fencing, hockey.
April21Overall (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
April21Overall (PDF)
I get I am making a lot of excuses/reasons here, but I just can't get upset over the Directors Cup, now the lack of progress in Men's basketball and football, absolutely there is an issue but I believe it is will get better.
But you are wrong about Nebraska’s best finishes. Throughout the 1990s, when Bill Byrne was athletic director, Nebraska routinely finished in the top 10 of the Directors’ Cup standings, peaking with fourth place in 1996-97. The last top-10 finish was sixth in 1999-2000.
That was a long time ago, but point made. I still think it will be tough for Nebraska to move up very far.
