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And hope this decision doesn't haunt us. 

I have a simple test,  a thought-experiment,  for an AD.  Does he pass the Bowlsby Test?   

Bob Bowlsby was on the sidelines at Wlat's disastrous last Big Game.  Actually standing somewhat separate down from the bench area.  He saw what he saw (and had seen all season)  and bloody well pulled the trigger.  Muir's record seems to show he does not pull the trigger quickly on losing coaches,  although without knowing more about the circumstances maybe there was wisdom in that.  Will Muir (great Scot's name, BTW)  be able to act if Shaw (or any other coach) regresses to a record unacceptable by our new standards ( Bowlsby having destroyed the myth that Stanford just can't have sustained success in football and basketball over time).

And, yes, I know Bowlsby's record in basketball tells a different story than football.  I just don't follow basketball well enough to judge.  And, yes, Uncle Chuck,  I think that standard applies to all the other Olympic and "minor' sports, too.  He has some hires to make,  which excuses him from the first half of the Bowlsby Test.  I hope he brings a high standard for those hires,  higher, perhaps, than what he could afford to have elsewhere.

[Redrum]

And hope this decision doesn't haunt us. 

I have a simple test,  a thought-experiment,  for an AD.  Does he pass the Bowlsby Test?   

Bob Bowlsby was on the sidelines at Wlat's disastrous last Big Game.  Actually standing somewhat separate down from the bench area.  He saw what he saw (and had seen all season)  and bloody well pulled the trigger.  Muir's record seems to show he does not pull the trigger quickly on losing coaches,  although without knowing more about the circumstances maybe there was wisdom in that.  Will Muir (great Scot's name, BTW)  be able to act if Shaw (or any other coach) regresses to a record unacceptable by our new standards ( Bowlsby having destroyed the myth that Stanford just can't have sustained success in football and basketball over time).

And, yes, I know Bowlsby's record in basketball tells a different story than football.  I just don't follow basketball well enough to judge.  And, yes, Uncle Chuck,  I think that standard applies to all the other Olympic and "minor' sports, too.  He has some hires to make,  which excuses him from the first half of the Bowlsby Test.  I hope he brings a high standard for those hires,  higher, perhaps, than what he could afford to have elsewhere.