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Newsflash:  Shaw underperformed to talent in 2011.  The Stanford team was not prepared for the home Oregon game, and we all know what happened at the Fiesta Bowl.
















2015 was a great year.  But have you looked at Stanford's roster that year?  Loaded.  Shaw gets credit for recruiting most all of them, for sure.  But that was also at Northwestern, right?  But I'll never convince you on 2015, so I'll just stick with "the exception that proves the rule."

As far as I can tell, your argument seems to insist that any year we don’t go 15-0, Shaw is at fault. Have you been following Michigan...or any of 130 or so other teams?  ONE team MIGHT have that record At the end of this year.

My father was a college football coach, and he used to say many decades ago:
When you lose, of course you're a bum.
When you win it's look at all that talent on the roster. Anyone could win with that.
Doesn't look like things have changed that much over the years.

A few years ago, after Stanford had beaten ND in Palo Alto, I went to one of the ND boards to enjoy some schadenfreude. Read something prescient from a Irish fan who told the irate posters not to sweat the "rise" of Stanford. It was, he reassured them, a blip. A mirage. He went on to say that the Cardinal would inevitably "revert to their mean of mediocrity", Notre would prevail, that God would be back in heaven and all would be right in the world. Damn.

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Newsflash:  Shaw underperformed to talent in 2011.  The Stanford team was not prepared for the home Oregon game, and we all know what happened at the Fiesta Bowl.
















2015 was a great year.  But have you looked at Stanford's roster that year?  Loaded.  Shaw gets credit for recruiting most all of them, for sure.  But that was also at Northwestern, right?  But I'll never convince you on 2015, so I'll just stick with "the exception that proves the rule."

As far as I can tell, your argument seems to insist that any year we don’t go 15-0, Shaw is at fault. Have you been following Michigan...or any of 130 or so other teams?  ONE team MIGHT have that record At the end of this year.

My father was a college football coach, and he used to say many decades ago:
When you lose, of course you're a bum.
When you win it's look at all that talent on the roster. Anyone could win with that.
Doesn't look like things have changed that much over the years.

A few years ago, after Stanford had beaten ND in Palo Alto, I went to one of the ND boards to enjoy some schadenfreude. Read something prescient from a Irish fan who told the irate posters not to sweat the "rise" of Stanford. It was, he reassured them, a blip. A mirage. He went on to say that the Cardinal would inevitably "revert to their mean of mediocrity", Notre would prevail, that God would be back in heaven and all would be right in the world. Damn.