[BillBradley]

re: football recruiting for Shaw...isn't the admissions dept a big factor in football recruiting at Stanford? From what I know, the athlete acceptance standards aren't set in stone and change from time to time depending on various other factors. I do know it's a big deal for basketball. Although the $10M the Warriors paid him was the main reason he left, Montgomery did speak of recruiting/admissions as a major issue at the time. His departing recruiting class, while the team went 30-2 and was #1 in the country that year, was Tim Morris, Peter Prowitt, and Taj Finger. The recruiting class the year before was Fred Washington, Evan Moore, and Mark Bradford. Back to back classes that were quite the step down from previous years. The "recruiting follows success" logic certainly didn't hold true in those years.

I don't really know the answer, so I wonder what the football admissions landscape was like during the Harbaugh and early Shaw years compared to the last 4 years. I think it's safe to say that building football and basketball dynasties aren't really at the top of the list for the Stanford administration.

[BillBradley]

re: football recruiting for Shaw...isn't the admissions dept a big factor in football recruiting at Stanford? From what I know, the athlete acceptance standards aren't set in stone and change from time to time depending on various other factors. I do know it's a big deal for basketball. Although the $10M the Warriors paid him was the main reason he left, Montgomery did speak of recruiting/admissions as a major issue at the time. His departing recruiting class, while the team went 30-2 and was #1 in the country that year, was Tim Morris, Peter Prowitt, and Taj Finger. The recruiting class the year before was Fred Washington, Evan Moore, and Mark Bradford. Back to back classes that were quite the step down from previous years. The "recruiting follows success" logic certainly didn't hold true in those years.

I don't really know the answer, so I wonder what the football admissions landscape was like during the Harbaugh and early Shaw years compared to the last 4 years. I think it's safe to say that building football and basketball dynasties aren't really at the top of the list for the Stanford administration.