FSU Finishes 15th in 2008-09 Directors Cup Standings

Even though the Aquatic Center open under Randy’s watch, it was all Dave’s doing. As a matter of fact, this same organization that oversees the Directors Cup, the NACDA, honored Hart with the 42nd annual Corbett Award, which is the highest honor one can achieve in collegiate athletics administration, in March of 2008, three months after he “resigned” from FSU. This is very good reading on what he meant to FSU and the ACC.
 http://www.nacda.com/sports/convention/spec-rel/031108aab.html

Our loss turned out to be Alabama’s gain, as Hart is now the “AD in waiting” for the Crimson Tide. This was undoubtedly TK’s biggest f#ck up.

Div. I institutions use the top10 sports for each gender in the Cup race. For example, points are automatically awarded to an institution in the first 10 sports per gender in which it scores. If an institution scores in more than 10 sports per gender, points are awarded for the 10 sports which received the highest point total.

Paraphrasing, but when Dave Hart came in, he basically said there’s no reason we can’t compete for the Sears Cup, as in that’s the kind of goals we’re talking about here, and it’s hard to express how outlandish that statement was at the time. It sounded maybe like something, you know, you’re supposed to say, but at the same time, you don’t say it unless you mean it, and well, look at us now. Thank you, Dave Hart. T.K. Wetherell is a criminal for what he did to you and to Florida State athletics.

Great work, Frank.

 and was presented to NCAA Division I schools only. In 1995, it was extended to Division II, Division III, and NAIA schools as well, with each division receiving its own award.
 At that time it was known as the Sears Cup, up until 2003. Beginning in the 2003-2004 season, the United States Sports Academy became the sponsor until the 2007-08 season, then Learfield Sports took over the sponsorship.

The University of North Carolina won the award in its inaugural year in 1993. Stanford University has won it every year since for 15 straight years.

being a soccer player myself, when i was looking to transfer schools i was shocked at the number of colleges/universities across the country that don’t have a men’s soccer program (including my alma mater Miami University (Ohio)). I understand the benefits of Title IX, trust me i actually wrote a couple papers on it in school, but i really don’t agree with the addition by subtraction concept.

For example at Miami, there are 8 men’s programs and 10 women’s. If this were a big name football and basketball school i think i could understand just due to the massive amount of money that is spent on those two sports. But we are a mid major school in a mediocre conference in both of those sports. Schools like USC and Texas and FSU do not have men’s soccer programs and these are schools that are in areas of the country that are hotbed for soccer talent. But teams like Michigan and Ohio State with huge football programs have a men’s soccer team….

i could be a little biased tho…