[Farm93]

The Harbaugh Zen of football is:  Depends on how many guys leave after 4 academic years.

It used to be that most players who had 5-yrs. of eligibility due to injury or redshirt actually played 5 years.  I guess that was because the old paradigm of Stanford football was that our 2-star guys would eventually start playing like 4-star guys if we just let them practice enough.

Now the emphasis is on moving them through.  When you have good caliber recruits in the wings, you can do that.   Just like the big boys.
Too bad.  Wouldn\'t it be great to have Ryan Whalen or Marecic around for a 5th season?  But after the season, we\'ll know.   Senior Day and the Awards dinner are to football what the lineup on Lenin\'s tomb was to Kremlin watchers.  My bet is on 25, the max allowable, minus one or two slots that will have to go to this or last years walk-ons/ grayshirts.   Better noggins than mine actually keep track of this floating number and can assign names to most of the total departing.

Getting 25 commits year after year requires a fair number of guys to dropout or transfer away each year.  (25 X 4 = 100)

With Stanford\'s graduation rate and infrequent transfers I would expect Stanford\'s commit target has to be 21 or 22 even if the program restricts the allocation of 5th years.  

Stanford and JH are at 20 at the moment for 2011, so I would look for Stanford to net 2 or 3 more additions.  Of course determining the Verbal yield is quite a trick, so JH may need to get 30+ to verbal at one point or other to ultimately get those 22 commits.

[Farm93]

The Harbaugh Zen of football is:  Depends on how many guys leave after 4 academic years.

It used to be that most players who had 5-yrs. of eligibility due to injury or redshirt actually played 5 years.  I guess that was because the old paradigm of Stanford football was that our 2-star guys would eventually start playing like 4-star guys if we just let them practice enough.

Now the emphasis is on moving them through.  When you have good caliber recruits in the wings, you can do that.   Just like the big boys.
Too bad.  Wouldn\'t it be great to have Ryan Whalen or Marecic around for a 5th season?  But after the season, we\'ll know.   Senior Day and the Awards dinner are to football what the lineup on Lenin\'s tomb was to Kremlin watchers.  My bet is on 25, the max allowable, minus one or two slots that will have to go to this or last years walk-ons/ grayshirts.   Better noggins than mine actually keep track of this floating number and can assign names to most of the total departing.

Getting 25 commits year after year requires a fair number of guys to dropout or transfer away each year.  (25 X 4 = 100)

With Stanford\'s graduation rate and infrequent transfers I would expect Stanford\'s commit target has to be 21 or 22 even if the program restricts the allocation of 5th years.  

Stanford and JH are at 20 at the moment for 2011, so I would look for Stanford to net 2 or 3 more additions.  Of course determining the Verbal yield is quite a trick, so JH may need to get 30+ to verbal at one point or other to ultimately get those 22 commits.