Denver #54
Middle Tennessee #76
Western Kentucky #88

Final 2008-09 NACDA Directors' Cup Standings

and now . . . the rest of the story . . .

SBC:

#54 -- Denver
#76 -- MT
#88 -- WKU
#173 -- FIU
#200 -- UL Cajuns
#218 -- FAU
#235 -- stAte, Troy
NR -- UNT, UL Warhawks, UALR, UNO, USA


Others:

#101 Jax State
#111 Memphis
#125 Georgia State
#137 Southern Miss
#149 Tulane
#153 Texas State
#200 UAB
#218 La Tech
#235 Missouri State

(06-29-2009 08:54 AM)ManzanoWolf Wrote:  and now . . . the rest of the story . . .

SBC:

#54 -- Denver
#76 -- MT
#88 -- WKU
#173 -- FIU
#200 -- UL Cajuns
#218 -- FAU
#235 -- stAte, Troy
NR -- UNT, UL Warhawks, UALR, UNO, USA


Others:

#101 Jax State
#111 Memphis
#125 Georgia State
#137 Southern Miss
#149 Tulane
#153 Texas State
#200 UAB
#218 La Tech
#235 Missouri State

Top 100 schools outside AQ BCS conferences
#40 Princeton
#42 TCU
#47 BYU
#49 Boise St.
#51 Utah
#54 Denver
#59 Cornell
#61 Tulsa
#62 New Mexico
#64 Rice
#65 UC-Irvine
#66 Hawaii
#70 Yale
#73 Harvard
#76 MT
#78 Fresno State
#78 New Hampshire
#78 Northern Iowa
#81 San Diego State
#82 Navy
#83 Kent State
#85 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
#86 Dartmouth
#87 SMU
#88 WKU
#89 Penn
#90 UCF
#94 JMU
#95 Army
#96 Northern Arizona
#97 Akron
#98 Vermont
#99 UT-Chattanooga

(06-29-2009 08:54 AM)ManzanoWolf Wrote:  and now . . . the rest of the story . . .

SBC:

#54 -- Denver
#76 -- MT
#88 -- WKU
#173 -- FIU
#200 -- UL Cajuns
#218 -- FAU
#235 -- stAte, Troy
NR -- UNT, UL Warhawks, UALR, UNO, USA


Others:

#101 Jax State
#111 Memphis
#125 Georgia State
#137 Southern Miss
#149 Tulane
#153 Texas State
#200 UAB
#218 La Tech
#235 Missouri State

Thanks for including us Manzano.

article on the goblueraiders.com site:

Landmark sports year climaxes with highest NACDA finish ever

(06-29-2009 08:24 AM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  Denver #54
Middle Tennessee #76
Western Kentucky #88

Final 2008-09 NACDA Directors' Cup Standings

It would be interesting to compare NACDA ratings to athletic budgets to see who is getting the best performance vs what is spent.

For example, Denver is #54 this year, and spends about $23 million on its athletic budget. That's a higher budget number than most (if not all) Sun Belt schools, but then again, Denver is a plane ride away from 85% of its sports opponents and Denver sponsors a number of expensive, non-traditional sports (Skiing, ice hockey, lacrosse, etc.).

Relative to other non-football D-I athletic depts (D-I AAA), Denver has the top performing athletic dept in America in terms of its ranking, and does very well vs schools with far larger budgets, but perhaps other SBC schools are getting a better return (a high ranking with a smaller budget outlay...