[CardinalSagehen]

I Am so happy Harbaugh keep recruiting for Stanford while with the 49ers. 
2011 Shaw head coach
2015 Shaw wins Pac 12 title. 

Geesh

2015 roster included fifth-year players (Harbaugh recruits) who played significant roles: Kevin Anderson, Cajuste, Harris, Hogan, Wright

9 of the 80+ players on that team were Harbaugh recruits. To your point, however, 4 of them were starters, including the QB. A fifth played a key role as (a very effective) goal-line RB, scoring 11 TDs and denying a Shaw recruit the Voldemort.

Did Shaw effectively ride CMac and a good-enough defense to a Rose Bowl? Yes. But the guy handing and throwing him the ball, and calling all the plays at the LOS, was a Harbaugh recruit.

Revisionist history.  

Recruiting is the problem now, not then. We had top 20 classes following that Rose Bowl in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020 (okay, it was #21).  Anyone that expects us to have top 10 classes is delusional.  

It’s also pretty unreasonable to make a point that Hogan was a Harbaugh recruit.  He was never even coached under Harbaugh. He was a guy that exceeded expectations and expanded his potential under Shaw. 

People should be more upset that we did too little with the 2017 class or that we’re struggling to land any top-200 players these days.  But Shaw gets credit for 2015.

[CardinalSagehen]

I Am so happy Harbaugh keep recruiting for Stanford while with the 49ers. 
2011 Shaw head coach
2015 Shaw wins Pac 12 title. 

Geesh

2015 roster included fifth-year players (Harbaugh recruits) who played significant roles: Kevin Anderson, Cajuste, Harris, Hogan, Wright

9 of the 80+ players on that team were Harbaugh recruits. To your point, however, 4 of them were starters, including the QB. A fifth played a key role as (a very effective) goal-line RB, scoring 11 TDs and denying a Shaw recruit the Voldemort.

Did Shaw effectively ride CMac and a good-enough defense to a Rose Bowl? Yes. But the guy handing and throwing him the ball, and calling all the plays at the LOS, was a Harbaugh recruit.

Revisionist history.  

Recruiting is the problem now, not then. We had top 20 classes following that Rose Bowl in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020 (okay, it was #21).  Anyone that expects us to have top 10 classes is delusional.  

It’s also pretty unreasonable to make a point that Hogan was a Harbaugh recruit.  He was never even coached under Harbaugh. He was a guy that exceeded expectations and expanded his potential under Shaw. 

People should be more upset that we did too little with the 2017 class or that we’re struggling to land any top-200 players these days.  But Shaw gets credit for 2015.