The collegiate equivalent of a participation ribbon?

Somebody on one of the UH message boards took this picture of the marquee in front of Hofheinz Pavilion:
On one hand, it does look sort of, eh, underwhelming. "We're number seventeen!* Woohoo!"

On the other hand, if the football team had ended the season ranked in the Top 25, we'd all be ecstatic.

Moreover, UH diver Anastasia Pozdniakova won the one-meter diving event, becoming the national champion in that category (an award that should look nice next to the silver medal she won in Beijing last summer; she also placed second nationally in the three-meter event).

Perhaps that accomplishment would have looked better on the marquee?


(*48 schools participated.)