The Hard Facts

If anyone is still deluded enough to believe the outright falsehoods in President Bollinger's statement about a so-called improvement for CU Athletics, please see below:

(thanks to Rich Forzani '66)

These results are from the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup. It is a very intense ratings system.

For the past nine years, Columbia’s sports team achievement rating compared specifically to the Ivy League is as follows:

(PS…8th place is last place)

’04 –’05                6^th place

’05 –’06                8^th place

’06 –’07                5^th place

’07 –’08                8^th place

’08 –’09                8^th place

’09 –’10                8^th place

’10 –’11                8^th place

’11 –’12                7^th place

’12 –’13                6^th place

I believe this is a stunning indictment of the AD performance record. Since taking office, Columbia has come in dead last 5 out of 8 years, and has never finished in the top 50%.  She has averaged in the past nine years a 7^thplace finish out of 8.

The “achievement”, or lack of it, to be attributed to the AD office is the stunning feat of moving up 2 positions since ’10 – ’11 from last to 6^th. Hardly a legacy to be proud of after nine years.

On Wall Street, this is known as a “dead cat bounce”, since even the worst of programs occasionally beats out someone.