OT: NACDA Director's Cup

There's been much chatter over the years regarding Jim Weaver's tenure as AD. This, along with some recent discussion of the Director's Cup, prompted this post. The Director's Cup is a rating system that ranks schools according to overall performance in ALL sports. I combined these standings (which go back to 1994) with the ranking of VT's football and basketball teams over that same period to produce this graph:

NOTES:

• Each point on the graph is the end of the academic years, so, e.g., 1994 is the 1993-94 year.
• The scale is 1-N, where 1 is the best.
• Weaver was hired in Sep. 1997.
• VT became a member of the ACC in Jul. 2004.
• Whit was hired in Jan. 2014, so I claim his first year is 2014-15.
• For FB/BB rankings, I used the final AP poll for that year.
• When VT teams were unranked by AP, I used Sagarin.
• Sagarin BB rankings began in 1998-99, so there is no earlier data.
• VT BB was ranked #22 in 1995?, but I didn't include that, since there's a gap in the data.

Director's Cup Ranking Stats:

I also worked up this graph of the ACC coastal teams' director's cup rankings since VT joined the ACC:

I won't attempt to interpret the data myself, but hopefully this is some factual fodder for discussion.