[NU Sports] All-Sports Rankings

[Mark Ament]

Interesting - it points out the difference between this and the 
Sears/Directors Cup which has been won by Stanford for the last, oh, I 
don't know forever I think.  It seems that the Cardinal have won the 
last 10 in a row at least.

Joe Thiegs wrote:

>I seem to recall reading just a few months ago that Minnesota had been atop
>the SI all-sports rankings for so long that SI On Campus decided to "retire"
>the Gophers from the list.  They made reference to it being akin to taking a
>song off of TRL (that's MTV's "Total Request Live"--what made Carson Daly
>into a celebrity--for all those out-of-touch-with-pop-culture list members
>;)  ) after a song has been at number one for a certain number of weeks.  I
>remember a thread about it on Gopherhole.com, where half the people
>commented about how great it was, and the other half lamented about how it
>seems like the only two sports in which the Gophers aren't regularly the top
>10 are the two that matter the most to the most people--football and men's
>basketball--and how they would trade the however many championships in
>non-revenue sports in a heartbeat for one Rose Bowl or a Final Four
>(preferably unforfeited).
>
>-Joe
>
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>All-Sports Rankings
>Bolstered by a cool Cat, Texas climbs to the top
>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/sioncampus/05/03/allsports.0503/index.
>html
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>Unless I am missing something there seems to be a edge for fair weather
>states being that only Notre Shame(11th), Northwestern(17th), Oregon
>State(17th), and Nebraska(21st) are from the north out of the top 25.  Even
>Oregon State has fairly moderate weather.  Note:  I intentionally excluded
>Georgetown, because it was carved out of a southern state and therefore is
>southern.
>
>Why the sudden renaissance in non-revenue sports?  Can it be after affects
>of the football success highlighting our athletics reputation?  Could it be
>the stars aligning with some good young coaches?
>
>Marc Linhardt
>Tech '93
>Go Cats!
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