Athletic Department rankings

[ZachTheZip]

Akron was recently ranked fairly high in two national ratings for the excellence of the overall athletic department.The first is the Director's cup. This ranks the overall amount of winning happening across all sports for a school. Obviously this would be biased towards schools that can afford to field more sports, but it's useful to compare yourself to other schools within your conference.http://www.nacda.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_ch...to_pdf/june29d183 Can't State 239.5097 Akron 184.50107 Miami (Ohio) 165.00115 Central Michigan 143.25141 Western Michigan 114.00173 Ball State 75.00199 Buffalo 50.50231 Northern Illinois 30.50235 Ohio 25.00235 Toledo 25.00265 Eastern Michigan 20.50Not listed: Bowling GreenRankings are out of 271. Second in the MAC is pretty good, although I don't like the idea of ever being behind Can't in anything. Need to step it up and leave them in the dust when it comes to overall sports winning.The other one was a ranking to determine the most efficient athletic department by comparing championships versus the amount of money spent.http://lsia.tamu.edu/EM-nat-champs.htm

The Excellence in Management Cup was established by the Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) at Texas A&M University in order to address the question of: Who is the most economically efficient athletic department in Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A)? The unique, yet simple, scoring system awards more points to athletic departments that win conference and national championships while efficiently allocating money to win these championships. Other championship cups do not address natural competitive advantages given to universities that have higher operating budgets and play more sports (thus, more opportunities to win championships).

1 Utah State WAC 2.3664674372 Can't State MAC 1.7644962503 Louisiana Tech WAC 1.5071371994 Akron MAC 1.4666797245 BYU MWC 1.4203265326 Utah MWC 1.0307533727 Boise State WAC 0.9742678998 Tulsa C-USA 0.9690799919 Miami (Ohio) MAC 0.95522178210 SMU C-USA 0.946066547Once again we're right behind Can't. Gotta do something about that.