<p>Congrats to Stanford, once again. Glad to see my school coming in at #7. :)</p>
<p>The top 10:</p>
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<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Florida State</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>UNC-Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>Cal-Berkeley</li>
<li>Duke</li>
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<p>What a stupid, stupid competition…</p>
<p>Private schools in the top 50:</p>
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<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Baylor</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>BYU</li>
<li>TCU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
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<p>Who said Princeton is bad at all sports? They beat IL, WVU, Louisville, and Indiana among others… I realize not many people care about their solid women’s rowing program, but still. I also find it silly that they include indoor track and outdoor track twice, even though it’s the exact same team. I realize the NCAA categorizes it as a separate sport, but it’s the exact same athletes. Seems like double counting and also helps Stanford every year. ;)</p>
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<p>I take it you aren’t a sports fan?</p>
<p>Great year for Duke.</p>
<p>I’m not a fan of Women’s Water Polo, Men’s Volleyball and Women’s Field Hockey if that’s what you mean…</p>
<p>The only sports that matter are football and basketball.</p>
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<p>Why not be good at all sports? I agree that football and basketball are the big ones, but they are also included in the directors cup standings. It is good to have great all-around athletics programs. Football is king and basketball is a close second, but it is great to be able to watch baseball, lacrosse, and soccer games and still have confidence in your school’s ability to be competitive.</p>
<p>You’re a Dukie though; I’m surprised you didn’t say basketball and lacrosse are the only sports that matter. :p</p>
<p>I just don’t want Stanford students/alumni to think their school is an athletic powerhouse compared to the likes of Michigan, Florida, Texas, Duke and UNC just because they dominate every non-revenue sport.</p>
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<p>Well, Stanford is an athletic powerhouse; they just aren’t a football and basketball powerhouse (usually).</p>
<p>They aren’t good at baseball, soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse either. They’re only good at “country club” sports.</p>
<p>Hey, I’m sure there’s a segment of our society that gets riled up for tennis and water polo matches. Stanford can compete for those people. :)</p>
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<p>Men’s volleyball ain’t a country club sport. Neither is women’s basketball. And Stanford’s football team ain’t that bad (although now that they don’t have Toby Gerhart …)</p>
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<p>Stanford isn’t good at baseball? You might want to check that. Ice Hockey and Lacrosse are nonexistent on the West Coast.</p>
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I don’t think the formula gives enough weight to actually winning the National Championship though. The gap between UCLA and Stanford and the rest of the top 10 is huge.</p>
<p>They were 49th this year so yeah, not too great…</p>
<p>Given that you used that number, I’m going to go ahead and assume you know nothing about college baseball (or really college sports in general). You could’ve just looked it up on wikipedia you know.</p>
<p>How did we lose to South Carolina, TCBH?</p>
<p>USC had some good junkball pitchers, and UCLA never adjusted. They also had some timely hitting, though I missed most of their scoring in the first game.</p>
<p>Hopefully Bauer and Cole can get them back to Omaha next year.</p>
<p>lesdia and how is football working out for your school, Duke?</p>
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<p>lesdia, so what “revenue” sports does Duke dominate such that you would consider them a “powerhouse” like the other schools that you listed?</p>
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<p>Lesdiables - given that you’re not a Stanford student – why, in fact, you’re all the way across the country from them! – what possible difference would it make in your life if Stanford students/alumni all thought that their school was an athletic powerhouse, or for that matter if they all thought that Stanford was the greatest thing since sliced bread? How would it affect your life and your enjoyment of your time in Duke in any way, shape or form?</p>