[Redrum]

Take a look sometime at the list of schools that have abysmal grad rates.  It's depressing.  It's maybe hundreds of kids each year that leave without football in their future or a marketable degree (or any degree).  Meanwhile Stanford is graduating kids with degrees and a chance in many cases to pay for a year of grad school by playing football in situations where they might see the field more than at Stanford.  That seems like a program discriminator  worth keeping in recruits' consciousness.  Won't have much traction with a lot of HS players trying to make a college decision, but it's visible,demonstrable evidence of how a Stanford degree can help beyond the normal college playing career. It might be a persuasive factoid (among others) with the type of student who considers Stanford.

[Redrum]

Take a look sometime at the list of schools that have abysmal grad rates.  It's depressing.  It's maybe hundreds of kids each year that leave without football in their future or a marketable degree (or any degree).  Meanwhile Stanford is graduating kids with degrees and a chance in many cases to pay for a year of grad school by playing football in situations where they might see the field more than at Stanford.  That seems like a program discriminator  worth keeping in recruits' consciousness.  Won't have much traction with a lot of HS players trying to make a college decision, but it's visible,demonstrable evidence of how a Stanford degree can help beyond the normal college playing career. It might be a persuasive factoid (among others) with the type of student who considers Stanford.