The Directors Cup is awarded each year to the college program who has the best collective results from its athletic programs. Points are awarded based on final placing in each D1 sport, mens and womens.
There's been threads in the past on this and RU has very often finished in the rankings with company of non-P5 schools and quite frankly not really acceptable based on conference affiliation alone.
But it seems like this season we might actually be having one of our best of in a very very long time. Many of our current spring teams are ranked. Men's basketball would pick up points for the first time in 30 years. The women's programs have a few that could make deep runs in post season tournaments.
To me, this ranking - the Directors Cup - is the true ultimate measure of the success of an athletic department in total. I don't think it gets enough air time or talked about as often it should.
There's been threads in the past on this and RU has very often finished in the rankings with company of non-P5 schools and quite frankly not really acceptable based on conference affiliation alone.
But it seems like this season we might actually be having one of our best of in a very very long time. Many of our current spring teams are ranked. Men's basketball would pick up points for the first time in 30 years. The women's programs have a few that could make deep runs in post season tournaments.
To me, this ranking - the Directors Cup - is the true ultimate measure of the success of an athletic department in total. I don't think it gets enough air time or talked about as often it should.