(10-05-2019, 11:56 PM)Mick Wrote: Coach Shaw is now 6-3 against Petersen.
And now back to the regularly scheduled rants...
I thought Petersen, Leach etc. were so much better than Shaw.
We have the best coach in the Pac-12, with the most conference,
division championships and no missed bowls during his remarkable run.
(10-05-2019, 11:43 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Yeah, I figured. I took advantage of your comment yo note the universality of the sentiment. I didn’t even have to go over to dawgman, to know that posts like this would be up there:
https://247sports.com/college/washington...136584152/
Their DC Lake, one of the most well regarded Dc’s is being ripped a new one for having his DL get dominated by a Stanford OL that has lost a half dozen players to injury (major kudos to that line, by the way).
It’s the same old, same old. Fans of football teams have this expectation that they should win virtually all their games, particularly if they’ve had a modicum of success recently, and that if they don’t win it’s because the “coach sucks”. Newsflash, unless you are in lake woebegone, the average football team will have a .500 record. Which conveniently is our record now.
I wish we were rolling the way we did in the early 2010’s. It was fun to root for a dominant football team. But even then, I knew that success of that degree would be fleeting. I hope that Shaw bounces back from this season, which seems poised to be one of his worst seasons as head coach. And there are some things that he could objectively change to make that more likely. But we are a long way from Shaw being a bad coach, or even an average one. He’s the best coach Stanford has had in most of our lifetimes, and one bad season will not change that.
BC
We only have one ranked team left on the schedule (at home too). Are we sure this season, after tonight, is going to be that bad?
Barring bad health news re QB and OL, I can see a nice run to close the season. 8-4 seems possible if we continue to play well.