[82lsju]

Is there any good reason to think deciding whether to accept early enrollees or allow official visits before January was Shaw's alone to make? I can maybe believe he had the decider's pen on official visits, but my understanding was that the University as a whole has strongly opposed early enrollment and that this had to be negotiated as a limited and conditional exception for football recruits. For as long as I've been associated with Stanford, Stanford has never permitted early enrollment prior to summer session preceding one's frosh year (and again, even that was generally limited to athletes).

This is a good point on early enrollees, and I almost brought it up as a caveat, knowing someone would point it out. I didn't, because David Shaw runs the most important program to any athletic department and he should have been "jumping on the table" to address the issue with other programs and admin before experiencing the damage done by not addressing it.

David Shaw's history is to let the damage be done, then react, rather than foresee it and be proactive to stop it from happening, so he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt with me on the early enrollment matter, just like he doesn't on delaying early OVs.

So, please tell us - what did Shaw do to try address these issues.  Be specific. Who and when did he meet with to try and deal with the changing landscape.  And please, give us your sources.

Maybe he was slow to adjust.  Maybe he tried to get the University to make changes and failed. I have no clue. (I like to throw softballs….) Do you?  

As for Stanford losing its identity, agree completely.

couple of similar articles on the approval of early enrollees by the academic senate in June 2021, currently in a three year pilot...

no real details on how it eventually got to the academic senate for a vote

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/06...-athletes/

https://stanforddaily.com/2021/06/11/fac...t-program/

[82lsju]

Is there any good reason to think deciding whether to accept early enrollees or allow official visits before January was Shaw's alone to make? I can maybe believe he had the decider's pen on official visits, but my understanding was that the University as a whole has strongly opposed early enrollment and that this had to be negotiated as a limited and conditional exception for football recruits. For as long as I've been associated with Stanford, Stanford has never permitted early enrollment prior to summer session preceding one's frosh year (and again, even that was generally limited to athletes).

This is a good point on early enrollees, and I almost brought it up as a caveat, knowing someone would point it out. I didn't, because David Shaw runs the most important program to any athletic department and he should have been "jumping on the table" to address the issue with other programs and admin before experiencing the damage done by not addressing it.

David Shaw's history is to let the damage be done, then react, rather than foresee it and be proactive to stop it from happening, so he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt with me on the early enrollment matter, just like he doesn't on delaying early OVs.

So, please tell us - what did Shaw do to try address these issues.  Be specific. Who and when did he meet with to try and deal with the changing landscape.  And please, give us your sources.

Maybe he was slow to adjust.  Maybe he tried to get the University to make changes and failed. I have no clue. (I like to throw softballs….) Do you?  

As for Stanford losing its identity, agree completely.

couple of similar articles on the approval of early enrollees by the academic senate in June 2021, currently in a three year pilot...

no real details on how it eventually got to the academic senate for a vote

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/06...-athletes/

https://stanforddaily.com/2021/06/11/fac...t-program/