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Re: 47 days till kickoff - Spiny_Norman - 08-24-2016
(08-24-2016, 07:39 AM)hurlburt88 link Wrote:Does a tree wielding an axe strike anyone else as a mismatch of symbols?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gieKMq1HDU
Re: 47 days till kickoff - CTcard - 08-24-2016
(08-24-2016, 07:39 AM)hurlburt88 link Wrote:Does a tree wielding an axe strike anyon else as a msmatch of symbols?
Well, there is the whole turning the instruments of torture on one's tormentors thing
... but overall, yeah that has always been a bit of a mascot/symbol issue at Stanford.
Re: 47 days till kickoff - JJJ - 08-24-2016
Down to single digits!
https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/768534859484495872
Re: 47 days till kickoff - JJJ - 08-25-2016
This video of 8 is pretty awesome:
https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/768881650830745600
Re: 47 days till kickoff - martyup - 08-25-2016
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Re: 47 days till kickoff - stupac2 - 08-25-2016
(08-25-2016, 03:35 PM)JJJ link Wrote:This video of 8 is pretty awesome:
https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/768881650830745600
Watching that had my 4-month-old riveted. Makes me optimistic about bringing him to the game next week. BTW if anyone has any tips about babies at games I'd love to hear them.
Re: 47 days till kickoff - BostonCard - 08-25-2016
The noise cancelling headphones that they put on Michael Phelps' kid seemed to work.
BC
Re: 47 days till kickoff - BobK - 08-25-2016
A number of parents use the headphones. Seem to work as BC says
Re: 47 days till kickoff - Papa John - 08-25-2016
Calling my shot early: as an old-timer, I'd make John Elway #7.
Re: 47 days till kickoff - FarmBoy - 08-26-2016
I'm hoping for a Toby Elway mash up.
2009 recruting class - ChicagoCard - 08-26-2016
For die-hard Stanford and college football fans, Bruce Feldman talked about the 2009 Stanford recruiting class from 16:50 - 19:30 in his and Stewart Mandel's "The Audible" podcast yesterday...
https://soundcloud.com/the-audible/825-are-sec-coaches-ratting-our-ole-miss-to-the-ncaa
They, or Bruce, said that Jemari Roberts was actually the highest ranked recruit in that class. They began (a little earlier, just after 15 minutes in) talking about the 2009 class in general and the fact that Taysom Hill (initially a Stanford recruit in that class) had just been named a starter at 26 years of age.
This seemed the most appropriate thread, short of a new one.
Re: 2009 recruting class - CTcard - 08-26-2016
(08-26-2016, 07:06 AM)ChicagoVisitor link Wrote:For die-hard Stanford and college football fans, Bruce Feldman talked about the 2009 Stanford recruiting class from 16:50 - 19:30 in his and Stewart Mandel's "The Audible" podcast yesterday...
They, or Bruce, said that Jemari Roberts was actually the highest ranked recruit in that class.
The 2009 class was remarkable, in various ways. It was responsible for keeping Stanford from being a flash in the pan at the top of college football, if not necessarily for its rise.
And it was remarkable despite a few guys who mostly played elsewhere (Hill and Najvar), the two highly recruited WRs having some troubles, and one guy having to retire early due to injury (Meinken). Everyone else (17 guys) became a major contributor.Â
Jemari Roberts was not the highest ranked recruit, however. In Scout, the guys in the top 300 were Shayne Skov (40) Zach Ertz (81) Levine Toilolo (132) Josh Nunes (155) Usua Amanam (192) Tyler Gaffney (206) Terrence Stephens (222) Jamal Rashad-Patterson (229) Jemari Roberts (238) Stepfan Taylor (247).
I guess they were looking at Rivals recruiting rankings. According to Rivals, Skov was our top recruit at #45 in the country and Roberts was next at #124.
EDIT - finally got a chance to actually listen to the podcast.
Feldman mentions that he wasn't that surprised by Burns winning the competition for QB because he had been talking to guys in the program who had told him that Burns had outplayed Chryst - he said it with a tone that sounded like "clearly outplayed", but don't think he used the word clearly. This is just before the discussion of Taysom Hill.
The Taysom Hill saga is kind of interesting.
He signed with Stanford in 2009.
For reasons that varied in different interviews, he did not actually ever attend Stanford. He went on a mission to Australia. That mission did not line up with the school year, perhaps because of being in the southern hemisphere. So, after his two year mission he enrolled at BYU in spring semester 2012, counting as a 2012 entry and effectively a three year hiatus due to the misison. He got injured a lot at BYU, the worst being last year where he got injured in the first game thus got a medical redshirt.
So, after a three year hiatus because of his misison, he is now entering his fifth year of playing and his 10th semester of school thus being named starting QB on his 26th birthday.
Re: 47 days till kickoff - martyup - 08-26-2016
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Re: 47 days till kickoff - French Rage - 08-26-2016
Don't know where else this belongs, but this thread is a bit of a grab bag. Found and bought this in St. Petersburg last week:
Re: 47 days till kickoff - martyup - 08-26-2016
(08-26-2016, 08:28 AM)French Rage link Wrote:Don't know where else this belongs, but this thread is a bit of a grab bag. Found and bought this in St. Petersburg last week:
What are they? Who are the players?
Re: 47 days till kickoff - French Rage - 08-26-2016
(08-26-2016, 09:19 AM)martyup link Wrote:[quote author=French Rage link=topic=15326.msg168540#msg168540 date=1472225295]
Don't know where else this belongs, but this thread is a bit of a grab bag. Found and bought this in St. Petersburg last week:
What are they? Who are the players?
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Nesting dolls. In order, it's Luck, Taylor, Wilkerson, G. Whalen, and Fleener. So it's either 2010 or 2011 from what I can tell. I'd like to think it was made 5 years ago and has spent the entire time bouncing around souvenir shops until I came along. There are lots for NFL teams or other college teams like Alabama, but this was the only I ever saw for Stanford.
Re: 47 days till kickoff - TreesAndBirds - 08-26-2016
Russian nesting doll makers have found ebay. Much cooler to buy in St. Pete.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stanford-Cardinals-or-any-NCAA-team-5-pc-6-in-Russian-Nesting-Doll-/122078985642?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368
Re: 47 days till kickoff - North Woods - 08-26-2016
ESPN has their own countdown, which is 6 days until the national kickoff -- notably not counting Cal vs. Hawaii happening tonight because... why would they count that?
Number 6 is McCaffrey's 6 300 all-purpose yard games from last season. No other player had more than 2 and five others had 1, which means he had 6/13 of the total for all of college football.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/QTP_160826MCCAFFREY300YARDGAMES/christian-mccaffrey-six-300-yard-games
Re: 47 days till kickoff - SamAtoms1980 - 08-26-2016
(08-26-2016, 08:05 AM)martyup link Wrote:7
Number of consecutive seasons in which we have gone bowling
Re: 47 days till kickoff - BostonCard - 08-26-2016
(08-25-2016, 09:22 PM)Papa John link Wrote:Calling my shot early: as an old-timer, I'd make John Elway #7.
Not a tough call, but nice call anyways.
https://twitter.com/stanfordfball/status/769236826116632576
BC