The NCAA also says Stanford is the most dominate ‘All Sports’ brand there is.
The Stanford Cardinal are the athletic teams that represent Stanford University. Stanford’s program has won 136 NCAA team championships, the most of any university. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, starting in 1976–77 and continuing through 2023–24. Through June 2024, Stanford athletes have won 554 individual NCAA titles.
Stanford has won 26 of the 30 NACDA Directors’ Cups, awarded annually to the most successful overall college sports program in the nation, including 25 consecutive Cups from 1994–95 through 2018–19. 177 Stanford-affiliated athletes have won a total of 296 Summer Olympic medals (150 gold, 79 silver, 67 bronze), including 26 medals at the 2020 Tokyo games.[3][4]
That’s our problem - we have too many folks who view athletics as a fan think cause someone who works at a lsu, UT knows some secret success and can get things done
They have access to unlimited money and can throw stuff at the wall and see what works or not - not hard to figure out
Those same folks normally fail when you take them out of their comfort zone at a lower level and they run back to those places for safety
We keep making the same decisions over and over and need to some gambles when it comes to hiring athletic administrators
Hire folks who ain’t afraid to hire other folks who’ve done more with less and would thrive at a UH - I know for a fact an FCS athletic type would save way more cash in a lot of areas as they’re trained to do more with less
The whole problem with Stanford is that few people care about, much less pay to watch, most of the sports that they have natties in.
Stanford’s eight natties in synchronized swimming, for example.
37 of their natties are in either men or women’s TENNIS.
12 are in either men or women’s GOLF.
9 are in women’s water polo and 9 are in women’s volleyball.
10 are in men’s gymnastics, and 5 are in women’s cross-country.
19 are in swimming and 2 are in women’s rowing.
11 are in men’s water polo.
In other words…most of what you posted is IRRELEVANT to conference realignment.
When it comes (especially) to men’s basketball, and, to a lesser degree, football (their 50K football stadium was less than 75% full for all 2023 home games), they bring only DILUTIVE value to any power conference.
through open records request. As part of agreement, Pezman is “to be on call while you work from home on any assigned duties and tasks at the discretion of the President.” It was announced June 20 that Pezman had been fired after six years on job.
If we need NIL $ what better person than the past President of Houston Sports Authority, Head of the Houston Dynamo and past Houston Oiler to have connections in Houston. Plus he has been an AD at WVU, would do way better with the resources and connections in Houston. If it is connections to Houston and $$, you have got it in Oliver Luck.
Agreed! College is not an old person’s venue. Youth of today have different idea’s and interests and someone who can recognize and tap into that will be successful in growing the interest and support of them. We find the right AD ready for that and while we (rather old peeps) may wonder at the direction he/she takes, in the end its the kiddo’s who will decide if the choice was correct or not.
