New Director's Cup Standings Posted

The U.S. Sports Academy Director’s Cup is an award and ranking given at the end of the college sports season by the association of athletic directors.

The March 27 winter rankings were just announced, including results from swimming and diving, and track and field.

BYU is currently in 23rd place, ahead of most schools from the BCS conferences and way ahead of all schools from non-BCS conferences. The next highest non-BCS school is Harvard (41st). The next highest MWC school is New Mexico (70th). Utah is 79th while CSU (101), Air Force (108), SDSU (156), Wyoming (157) and UNLV 173rd. Boise State is 87th.

Some other miscellaneous schools and their rankings: UCLA (18th), Notre Dame (22nd), Georgia (32nd), Colorado (34th), Kentucky (42nd), Oklahoma (46th), Arizona (54th), Kansas (55th).

BYU’s point total is 314.25, just one point behind No. 22 Notre Dame (315.50).

The Top 25:

1. Stanford
2. Penn State
3. Ohio State
4. California
5. Michigan
6. Wisconsin
7. Texas
8. ASU
9. Florida
10. Florida State
11. West Virginia
12. LSU
13. USC
14. Oregon
15. North Carolina
16. Minnesota
17. Washington
18. UCLA
19. Tennessee
20. Missouri
21. Duke
22. Notre Dame
23. BYU
24. Nebraska
25. Purdue

It is interesting to note that eight of the schools in the Top 25 are in the western United State.

This note comes from Robert Garrick of Clayton, Mo., who keeps up on this Director’s Cup Standing stuff:

“Every year I note this: No school in America dominates its conference athletically as BYU dominates its conference.

“I also note this: Some people still think BYU doesn’t belong in a BCS conference. These standings prove them wrong. What those people really mean is: It’s more fun to dominate a mediocre conference, year after year after year, than it would be to compete with a slate of comparable programs in a major conference.”