[Sam Leopold]

 It is so hard to be a Stanford student on campus, and many Stanford teams are playing below their typical levels.   Stanford is always challenging.  The school is really hard for student-athletes and the current campus environment is just so hard mentally, physically and academically on every athlete.

This is worth repeating. So true. (Also for non-athletes.)

While I'm sure there is merit in this viewpoint, the women's team faces the same conditions and is crushing everything.

Haase should be burning down to the end of his wick -- if he doesn't demonstrably show the ability to buck the late-season trend of most of his other years here, that should be grounds for adios.  This starts on Sunday by handling a UW team that just came into Berkeley and slapped down the Cal team that we barely beat at home, a UW team that already has a win over Stanford and is arguably playing better ball than Stanford right now.

[Sam Leopold]

 It is so hard to be a Stanford student on campus, and many Stanford teams are playing below their typical levels.   Stanford is always challenging.  The school is really hard for student-athletes and the current campus environment is just so hard mentally, physically and academically on every athlete.

This is worth repeating. So true. (Also for non-athletes.)

While I'm sure there is merit in this viewpoint, the women's team faces the same conditions and is crushing everything.

Haase should be burning down to the end of his wick -- if he doesn't demonstrably show the ability to buck the late-season trend of most of his other years here, that should be grounds for adios.  This starts on Sunday by handling a UW team that just came into Berkeley and slapped down the Cal team that we barely beat at home, a UW team that already has a win over Stanford and is arguably playing better ball than Stanford right now.