[81alum]

The fundamental problem the we are trying to solve in this thread is:

1) The excitement and fun of a sports board is for fans to second-guess coaches, to be armchair, Monday-morning quarterbacks, to reminisce about particularly wonderful performances in the past that we imagine are better than the present.

2) We happen to be in the greatest era in Stanford football history, led by a universally admired head coach and alum David Shaw, and none of us want to seem ungrateful or arrogant about substituting our judgment for his demonstrated success.

The problem is fundamentally unsolvable.  Those two things are going to be in tension.  I think we do a pretty good job, on balance, of framing our criticisms and armchair-isms with protestations of gratitude and respect.  And that, in my opinion, is the best we will be able to do.

[81alum]

The fundamental problem the we are trying to solve in this thread is:

1) The excitement and fun of a sports board is for fans to second-guess coaches, to be armchair, Monday-morning quarterbacks, to reminisce about particularly wonderful performances in the past that we imagine are better than the present.

2) We happen to be in the greatest era in Stanford football history, led by a universally admired head coach and alum David Shaw, and none of us want to seem ungrateful or arrogant about substituting our judgment for his demonstrated success.

The problem is fundamentally unsolvable.  Those two things are going to be in tension.  I think we do a pretty good job, on balance, of framing our criticisms and armchair-isms with protestations of gratitude and respect.  And that, in my opinion, is the best we will be able to do.