[Mick]

No news on the coaching front today, which means there is a non-insignificant chance that Bernard and Earl don't make a change. If that turns out to be the case, I just keep thinking back to a quote from the AD three years ago that appeared in the SF Gate: "The resignation, announced Monday by athletic director Bernard Muir, may be a sign that the bar is being raised much higher for sports on the Farm. According to sources close to the athletic department, most Stanford teams are now expected to contend not just for postseason tournaments but for national championships."

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...523792.php

I hope I am proven wrong, but keeping a coach who has gone 4-68 in Pac-12 play in three years is antithesis to the pursuit of excellence that has defined Stanford and its AD.

I always think it's funny when authorities make nonsensical comments.  In 2004, Mayor Dinkins of NYC said "Things are not out of control and this isn't Dodge City" about New York and its violence level.  Murders in NYC in 2003: 597.  Average annual murders in Dodge City during reference period of extreme western violence: 3.

[Mick]

No news on the coaching front today, which means there is a non-insignificant chance that Bernard and Earl don't make a change. If that turns out to be the case, I just keep thinking back to a quote from the AD three years ago that appeared in the SF Gate: "The resignation, announced Monday by athletic director Bernard Muir, may be a sign that the bar is being raised much higher for sports on the Farm. According to sources close to the athletic department, most Stanford teams are now expected to contend not just for postseason tournaments but for national championships."

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...523792.php

I hope I am proven wrong, but keeping a coach who has gone 4-68 in Pac-12 play in three years is antithesis to the pursuit of excellence that has defined Stanford and its AD.

I always think it's funny when authorities make nonsensical comments.  In 2004, Mayor Dinkins of NYC said "Things are not out of control and this isn't Dodge City" about New York and its violence level.  Murders in NYC in 2003: 597.  Average annual murders in Dodge City during reference period of extreme western violence: 3.