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How many more games left in the season and Hanson's career at Stanford? Change can't come soon enough.

Wish it were otherwise, but I have less than complete confidence that the number of games left in the season and the number of games left in Hanson's career at Stanford will prove to be one and the same number. That certainly should be the case, and I think it will be, but, in the words of the quotably immortal Yogi Berra, https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en...berra1.jpg

Even with this season's addition of 8 Hanson recruits (inactive player Maya Jackson excluded from the count) Hanson picks still comprise less than 40% of the team, and that fact can be pointed to as an excuse (albeit a flimsy one, in my opinion) for the past 3 years having just been wasted away, for the most part, and for perhaps another year of waste to come as Hanson is gifted with just a bit more "rebuilding" time.

However, if four years' negligible improvement in conference play winning percentage posted under Hanson at Dartmouth (from 61.1% for year 2010 to 62.5% collectively for "Hanson years" 2011 thru 2014) established Hanson as a Dartmouth success story then, to my mind, three years' significant decline in conference play winning percentage posted under Hanson at Stanford (from 20.8% for year 2014 to an anticipated 4.2% collectively for "Hanson years" 2015 thru 2017) establishes Hanson as a failed hire at Stanford, and it does so NOW, as analytical consideration given the fact of the existence of a somewhat smaller body of data (three years' worth at Stanford versus four at Dartmouth) from which to make a performance evaluation is more than offset by analytical consideration due the fact of the existence of a major quantitative difference between the negligible improvement in conference play winning percentage (from 61.1% to 62.5% = +1.4) under Hanson at Dartmouth  and the significant decline in conference play winning percentage (from 20.8% to 4.2% = -16.6) under Hanson at Stanford. In a nutshell, Stanford Softball should NOT be made to endure a 4th year under Hanson & Co.

For the players' sake particularly, I certainly hope to witness the end of the abysmal Hanson era at the conclusion of this season.

[Cred]

How many more games left in the season and Hanson's career at Stanford? Change can't come soon enough.

Wish it were otherwise, but I have less than complete confidence that the number of games left in the season and the number of games left in Hanson's career at Stanford will prove to be one and the same number. That certainly should be the case, and I think it will be, but, in the words of the quotably immortal Yogi Berra, https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en...berra1.jpg

Even with this season's addition of 8 Hanson recruits (inactive player Maya Jackson excluded from the count) Hanson picks still comprise less than 40% of the team, and that fact can be pointed to as an excuse (albeit a flimsy one, in my opinion) for the past 3 years having just been wasted away, for the most part, and for perhaps another year of waste to come as Hanson is gifted with just a bit more "rebuilding" time.

However, if four years' negligible improvement in conference play winning percentage posted under Hanson at Dartmouth (from 61.1% for year 2010 to 62.5% collectively for "Hanson years" 2011 thru 2014) established Hanson as a Dartmouth success story then, to my mind, three years' significant decline in conference play winning percentage posted under Hanson at Stanford (from 20.8% for year 2014 to an anticipated 4.2% collectively for "Hanson years" 2015 thru 2017) establishes Hanson as a failed hire at Stanford, and it does so NOW, as analytical consideration given the fact of the existence of a somewhat smaller body of data (three years' worth at Stanford versus four at Dartmouth) from which to make a performance evaluation is more than offset by analytical consideration due the fact of the existence of a major quantitative difference between the negligible improvement in conference play winning percentage (from 61.1% to 62.5% = +1.4) under Hanson at Dartmouth  and the significant decline in conference play winning percentage (from 20.8% to 4.2% = -16.6) under Hanson at Stanford. In a nutshell, Stanford Softball should NOT be made to endure a 4th year under Hanson & Co.

For the players' sake particularly, I certainly hope to witness the end of the abysmal Hanson era at the conclusion of this season.