thedeacfan, good work on putting together all that info. My thinking is that fball and bball are the most important markers of an athletic department, but just below the performance of those two sports is the directors cup ranking. My impression is that I put more emphasis on the directors cup than most posters, so I appreciate the info.
Wake absolutely needs to strive for better than our previous average directors cup rankings (25-45 range) and obviously a lot better than our recent performances (75-100 range). However, I will add that historical context is important when making judgments, and unfortunately we don't have that for other athletic directors at Wake since the directors cup only goes back 20 years. On a thread yesterday I messed up a stat regarding individual NCAA champs at Wake, so I did a little more investigation. I probably missed some again, but here is what I have found for NCAA championships at Wake Forest (year, athlete/team, sport, AD at the time).
1949 Arnold Palmer Golf Weaver (’37-’54)
1950 Arnold Palmer Golf Weaver
1955 Team Baseball Gibson (’54-’64)
1974 Team Golf Hooks (’64-‘92)
1974 Curtis Strange Golf Hooks
1975 Team Golf Hooks
1975 Jay Haas Golf Hooks
1979 Gary Hallberg Golf Hooks
1986 Team Golf Hooks
1996 Andy Bloom Shot Put Wellman (’92- )
1996 Andy Bloom Discus Wellman
2002 Bea Bielik Tennis Wellman
2002 Team Field Hockey Wellman
2003 Team Field Hockey Wellman
2004 Team Field Hockey Wellman
2007 Team Soccer Wellman
2007 Michelle Sikes 5000m Indoor Wellman
2007 Michelle Sikes 5000m Outdoor Wellman
2008 Cory Parr and Steve Forman Tennis, doubles Wellman
2009 Michael Bingham 400m Indoor Wellman
Wellman has been the AD for 11 championships (in 21 years) in a variety of sports, and Hooks was the AD for 6 championships (in 28 years), all in golf. This obviously isn't a perfect way of comparing Wellman to previous Wake ADs, but it does provide some historical context.