re: Directors Cup : Gators #2, Ole Miss #54 (SEC Rocks!) : Capitol One now updated

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No wonder yall finish 1st in the SEC each year. You receive points in 3 sports that none of the other SEC schools have.

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You realize he made W Lax in bold print because it is the only sport of the 3 we have, right?

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They compete in 36 varsity sports.

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Ohio State has 37.

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Yeah, but you have to live in OH to play them.

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This.

I am hoping we can catch FSU in the men's Cap One Cup, but our track team is sucking.

Florida, Alabama, and Kentucky should get a nice boost as all 3 made WCWS and the worst Alabama and Florida can finish is 3rd, while the worst Kentucky can finish is 5th.

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So lacrosse which has a limited number of schools participating counts but men's and women's tennis and golf which every school has doesn't. Makes sense.

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Don't ask me why but Tennis & Golf are considered Individual sports & not team sports...

With the 4th place finish in NCAA W T&F, seems like Gator women just won the W Capitol One Cup!

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If we had a typical football and golf year for us, it could have potentially been the year we finally beat Stanford for the Director's Cup. Their current point total can only increase in small increments, whereas we will likely be adding between 300-400 points.

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In sports that Stanford and Florida both contest, the Cardinal edged out UF this year and typical performances by the Gators (in men's golf and football) would have certainly given the them a lead in head-to-head competition (so to speak).

However, since the Director's Cup scores the highest performing 10 sports for each gender, Stanford will likely always have a higher point total as they compete in more men's sports (15 to 9) and more women's sports (14 to 12). Thus they have more opportunities to make up for poor performances elsewhere.

As the year finishes out, Stanford will not count performances in women's soccer, golf, LAX, and softball (only Cardinal team to not make the postseason and thus score 0 points). On the men's side they will not count performances in fencing, XC, outdoor T&F, wrestling and tennis.

Stanford will use points scored in women's water polo and rowing as well as men's gymnastics, water polo, volleyball and soccer - all of which are not heavily contested by SEC schools.

TL;DR - Stanford wins because they do very well at almost all things. Florida (and other SEC schools) needs to add more sports (especially on the men's side) if they want the public relations victory of winning this award.

Also, equestrian is not scored in these standings. Only NCAA-sponsored postseason competition is used. For football, FBS schools are awarded points based on the final Coaches' Poll and whether they were invited to a bowl game and won.

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In sports that Stanford and Florida both contest, the Cardinal edged out UF this year and typical performances by the Gators (in men's golf and football) would have certainly given the them a lead in head-to-head competition (so to speak).

However, since the Director's Cup scores the highest performing 10 sports for each gender, Stanford will likely always have a higher point total as they compete in more men's sports (15 to 9) and more women's sports (14 to 12). Thus they have more opportunities to make up for poor performances elsewhere.

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Florida has had some very close second place finishes over the last couple of years playing significantly fewer sports, unfortunately each of those years we have had a sport we traditionally do very well in struggle, which has prevented the break through.

I doubt we see any more sports added anytime soon.