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I hope Muir stays however his  daughter will play volleyball for Duke next year

As an alum of one of the 11 sports cut by Muir, this would be music to my ears if he left for Duke. Duke is a step down from Stanford but the daughter being there and Muir's basketball background could make that job enticing.

Can the cuts be attributed to Muir?

Yes, as these 11 sports have come forth with fundraising plans to make them self funded, Muir continues to block it in the name of focusing on higher priority sports.  He keeps on talking about how only Ohio State had more varsity sports than Stanford. Well, Harvard and much of the Ivy League has 15 more varsity sports than Stanford post cuts and 4 more pre-cuts. Why aren't we comparing ourselves to our academic peers who support these Olympic sports in the name of offering them to the student body not in the name of revenue generation? The covid budget crisis was used as an excuse for Muir and his bloated staff to focus on higher priorities and sell the cuts to the Board. He doesn't want alums supporting the crew and wrestling teams when they could be donating to a new basketball workout facility.

Bloated staff? I think someone posted awhile back that we had more associate or assistant ADs than sports teams. I'm sure they're all very necessary. . . .

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I hope Muir stays however his  daughter will play volleyball for Duke next year

As an alum of one of the 11 sports cut by Muir, this would be music to my ears if he left for Duke. Duke is a step down from Stanford but the daughter being there and Muir's basketball background could make that job enticing.

Can the cuts be attributed to Muir?

Yes, as these 11 sports have come forth with fundraising plans to make them self funded, Muir continues to block it in the name of focusing on higher priority sports.  He keeps on talking about how only Ohio State had more varsity sports than Stanford. Well, Harvard and much of the Ivy League has 15 more varsity sports than Stanford post cuts and 4 more pre-cuts. Why aren't we comparing ourselves to our academic peers who support these Olympic sports in the name of offering them to the student body not in the name of revenue generation? The covid budget crisis was used as an excuse for Muir and his bloated staff to focus on higher priorities and sell the cuts to the Board. He doesn't want alums supporting the crew and wrestling teams when they could be donating to a new basketball workout facility.

Bloated staff? I think someone posted awhile back that we had more associate or assistant ADs than sports teams. I'm sure they're all very necessary. . . .