[Embo]

A once-proud program is dead in the water until Shaw stands down. This is reality, folks, no matter how you feel about it. I don't care about your feelings. I care about Stanford Football -- which, at this moment, is at a historic low. Woeful doesn't begin to describe it.  Oh, yes, and today Lincoln Riley is the head coach at...USC. Looks like they're serious about football. Until I see a Harbaugh 2.0 running the show at Stanford--and this guy is out there somewhere--Stanford football remains in a coma.

This is true, even if many people here (and the powers-that-be) want to close their eyes, cover ears, and yell "NA NA NA" to make the obvious less clear.

But to put it most fundamentally, without a change at the head coaching position, Stanford football will never regain what is the first ingredient for a rebuild:  hope.

Without significant changes, there will be no hope.
For any out there with "Wait 'til next year" enthusiasm, let me submit for your examination the 2022 schedule:

Out of conference opponents
Colgate, at home
Notre Dame, away
BYU, at home

Conference opponents at home
USC
ASU
Oregon State
WSU

Conference opponents on the road
Oregon
UCLA
Washington
Utah
Cal

We miss Colorado and Arizona yet again.
I count one game where Stanford will be favored.  A 1-11 record for 2022 is not off the table.

[Embo]

A once-proud program is dead in the water until Shaw stands down. This is reality, folks, no matter how you feel about it. I don't care about your feelings. I care about Stanford Football -- which, at this moment, is at a historic low. Woeful doesn't begin to describe it.  Oh, yes, and today Lincoln Riley is the head coach at...USC. Looks like they're serious about football. Until I see a Harbaugh 2.0 running the show at Stanford--and this guy is out there somewhere--Stanford football remains in a coma.

This is true, even if many people here (and the powers-that-be) want to close their eyes, cover ears, and yell "NA NA NA" to make the obvious less clear.

But to put it most fundamentally, without a change at the head coaching position, Stanford football will never regain what is the first ingredient for a rebuild:  hope.

Without significant changes, there will be no hope.
For any out there with "Wait 'til next year" enthusiasm, let me submit for your examination the 2022 schedule:

Out of conference opponents
Colgate, at home
Notre Dame, away
BYU, at home

Conference opponents at home
USC
ASU
Oregon State
WSU

Conference opponents on the road
Oregon
UCLA
Washington
Utah
Cal

We miss Colorado and Arizona yet again.
I count one game where Stanford will be favored.  A 1-11 record for 2022 is not off the table.