04-06-2021, 11:34 AM
I'm thinking the Directors' Cup won't be awarded this year. As was already mentioned, the NAIA canceled swimming and diving and NJCAA canceled basketball and volleyball.
Covid has unevenly affected teams and divisions, and I can understand why the NACDA would hold off on resuming the DC competition until all teams and divisions are on a more equal footing. Even if all NCAA D-1 championships are played this year that still doesn't mean that all teams/conferences in a given sport were on equal footing.
Case in point: Pac-12 football. USC was the only team to finish in the AP top-25 at #21. That's historically bad, maybe the worst performance ever by the conference, and it was due to Covid and, for the most part, a situation that was outside the control of the players and coaches.
Covid has unevenly affected teams and divisions, and I can understand why the NACDA would hold off on resuming the DC competition until all teams and divisions are on a more equal footing. Even if all NCAA D-1 championships are played this year that still doesn't mean that all teams/conferences in a given sport were on equal footing.
Case in point: Pac-12 football. USC was the only team to finish in the AP top-25 at #21. That's historically bad, maybe the worst performance ever by the conference, and it was due to Covid and, for the most part, a situation that was outside the control of the players and coaches.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)