[msqueri]

Costello was all-conference before he transferred. In fact, he's the only Stanford QB to be all-conference in the last six years. That's a massive transfer. But of course the context is very important that Costello had been over-recruited and was also not the same after injury.

Lyons, Tucker, Chryst, Alexander, Reid, Hamilton, Williams, Eboh, Swann, Jones, and Peat were all significant players but none were superstars. Jones was probably the closest having led the Pac-12 in scoring one year and being a top six back in the Pac-12. Jones and Reid are extremely significant, detrimental transfers. I'd put Williams, Swann, Hamilton, and Peat in the next tier as arguable whether those transfers were healthy/desirable. Below that threshold it's really pretty understandable and innocuous in all cases.

I think it's notable that arguably the two most damaging outbound transfers in Stanford's history unless I'm forgetting something were both this off-season - Jones and Reid.

[msqueri]

Costello was all-conference before he transferred. In fact, he's the only Stanford QB to be all-conference in the last six years. That's a massive transfer. But of course the context is very important that Costello had been over-recruited and was also not the same after injury.

Lyons, Tucker, Chryst, Alexander, Reid, Hamilton, Williams, Eboh, Swann, Jones, and Peat were all significant players but none were superstars. Jones was probably the closest having led the Pac-12 in scoring one year and being a top six back in the Pac-12. Jones and Reid are extremely significant, detrimental transfers. I'd put Williams, Swann, Hamilton, and Peat in the next tier as arguable whether those transfers were healthy/desirable. Below that threshold it's really pretty understandable and innocuous in all cases.

I think it's notable that arguably the two most damaging outbound transfers in Stanford's history unless I'm forgetting something were both this off-season - Jones and Reid.