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https://247sports.com/college/stanford/A...189949142/

In no program are low level hires going to make a material impact that fans can appreciate on the field. I mean I've yet to hear fans ever bitch about the assistant OL coach or offensive analyst when their team is getting pwned.

I cannot recall a moment in recent years when I appreciated ANYTHING of impact that I saw on the field except for Bryce Love. Beyond him, nada. Nada thing. Muchas gracias, coach. And thanks for all you do, too, Bernie. As Chris Collinsworth would add, "Duh, we appreciate your service!"

If that's the case, you should have appreciated the pandemic year Road Warriors offense once Mills got in the swing of things. Mills, Dalman, Fehoko, Jones, and Higgins. We had future NFL players playing at a high level and, for a three game stretch, beating conference foes on the road while outgunning them with an offense that was top 15-20-ish in America in that span.

Much about this was depressing too, I grant: I'm talking about a three game (219 plays!) span after which the three marquee players left early for the NFL to become mid-round draft picks and leave a combined seven years of eligibility on the table. It was a tease and was then over, without any bowl or the second half of a season to see what they could have done with some real runway.

But if we're in the business of rooting for Stanford football, we need to be able to appreciate the good. Mills, Dalman, Fehoko, Jones, Higgins, etc. gave us good offense for a three week stretch.

I look back on that runt season as a kind of lab in the basement of the biology department building. You know, a musty, dusty collection of laboratory curiosities: two-headed calves, weird pig fetuses, and sundry mutations. As gallantly as the guys played during that star-crossed season, it will live on as an asterisk year. One that people will forever call the Covid season. Kinda the way a few Giants diehards dismiss the 1989 WS as "not counting". Just orders of magnitude worse. Speaking of that Series, I am in emphatic agreement with Hank Greenwald who said that if it weren't for the quake, the A's would have won in three games, not four.

Of course the A’s would have beat the giants in ‘89.  Better team.  Better chemistry department……

[lex24]

https://247sports.com/college/stanford/A...189949142/

In no program are low level hires going to make a material impact that fans can appreciate on the field. I mean I've yet to hear fans ever bitch about the assistant OL coach or offensive analyst when their team is getting pwned.

I cannot recall a moment in recent years when I appreciated ANYTHING of impact that I saw on the field except for Bryce Love. Beyond him, nada. Nada thing. Muchas gracias, coach. And thanks for all you do, too, Bernie. As Chris Collinsworth would add, "Duh, we appreciate your service!"

If that's the case, you should have appreciated the pandemic year Road Warriors offense once Mills got in the swing of things. Mills, Dalman, Fehoko, Jones, and Higgins. We had future NFL players playing at a high level and, for a three game stretch, beating conference foes on the road while outgunning them with an offense that was top 15-20-ish in America in that span.

Much about this was depressing too, I grant: I'm talking about a three game (219 plays!) span after which the three marquee players left early for the NFL to become mid-round draft picks and leave a combined seven years of eligibility on the table. It was a tease and was then over, without any bowl or the second half of a season to see what they could have done with some real runway.

But if we're in the business of rooting for Stanford football, we need to be able to appreciate the good. Mills, Dalman, Fehoko, Jones, Higgins, etc. gave us good offense for a three week stretch.

I look back on that runt season as a kind of lab in the basement of the biology department building. You know, a musty, dusty collection of laboratory curiosities: two-headed calves, weird pig fetuses, and sundry mutations. As gallantly as the guys played during that star-crossed season, it will live on as an asterisk year. One that people will forever call the Covid season. Kinda the way a few Giants diehards dismiss the 1989 WS as "not counting". Just orders of magnitude worse. Speaking of that Series, I am in emphatic agreement with Hank Greenwald who said that if it weren't for the quake, the A's would have won in three games, not four.

Of course the A’s would have beat the giants in ‘89.  Better team.  Better chemistry department……