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One of my great Stanford football memories is seeing New Orleanians Terrence Alexander and Jay Tyler line up next to each other to receive a kickoff late in the 2016 game at Oregon.  Their Dads played together on the same high school football team two decades earlier.

This is amazing.  What a treat for the two families.

I'm late to this thread, but The Blind Pelican is a great game-watching location -- the oyster specials are probably the best of any Stanford alumni game-watch location :)  BigEasyCard is also a great host!

Wayne Lyons might have also decided to cash in on the Michigan experience and play in front of amazing crowds, both home and away, and play against an entirely new conference of storied teams (though if Michigan played Notre Dame, he got a retread there).  Also, iirc, his mom landed a job at Michigan at the same time, so he would have been closer to family (and she might have gotten to see him play whatever few minutes he played).  Stanford was certainly a far enough journey from Fort Lauderdale. 

More so now than maybe when Lyons was a student-athlete -- the kids these days are very aware of the difference college athletics experiences their peers get at different colleges.  Maybe there's a bit of FOMO going on when Stanford recruits see the enormous student bodies turn out for games or when nationally-adulated teams get regular air time.  Stanford's always battled uphill for recognition and respect...maybe the kids want to dip their toes in that pool after getting a Stanford degree.  As long as they remember Stanford in their donations and think of themselves as primarily Stanford alumni, I guess I'm okay with that ;)

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One of my great Stanford football memories is seeing New Orleanians Terrence Alexander and Jay Tyler line up next to each other to receive a kickoff late in the 2016 game at Oregon.  Their Dads played together on the same high school football team two decades earlier.

This is amazing.  What a treat for the two families.

I'm late to this thread, but The Blind Pelican is a great game-watching location -- the oyster specials are probably the best of any Stanford alumni game-watch location :)  BigEasyCard is also a great host!

Wayne Lyons might have also decided to cash in on the Michigan experience and play in front of amazing crowds, both home and away, and play against an entirely new conference of storied teams (though if Michigan played Notre Dame, he got a retread there).  Also, iirc, his mom landed a job at Michigan at the same time, so he would have been closer to family (and she might have gotten to see him play whatever few minutes he played).  Stanford was certainly a far enough journey from Fort Lauderdale. 

More so now than maybe when Lyons was a student-athlete -- the kids these days are very aware of the difference college athletics experiences their peers get at different colleges.  Maybe there's a bit of FOMO going on when Stanford recruits see the enormous student bodies turn out for games or when nationally-adulated teams get regular air time.  Stanford's always battled uphill for recognition and respect...maybe the kids want to dip their toes in that pool after getting a Stanford degree.  As long as they remember Stanford in their donations and think of themselves as primarily Stanford alumni, I guess I'm okay with that ;)