[lex24]

I put the odds of Shaw not returning as HC next year at 5 to 1.  My guess, he will make some changes within his assistant ranks.  But he gets one more year.

What would be the rationale for this? How does it make sense to "get one more year," exactly?  I mean if you are saying "one more year" you are effectively already showing you don't have confidence. Why do you want someone in charge who doesn't have your confidence? Makes zero sense.

Brian Kelly went 4-8, cleaned house, and returned to Top 10 status. But these changes came from himself, not after being pressured to make changes. Jim Harbaugh is another one. He makes changes proactively and is always looking to improve.

I've never in my memory seen a coach pressured into making coaching staff changes ever turn things around because the fact he didn't do it himself demonstrates he isn't fit for the job. Shaw proved he was unfit when he made zero changes after last season. That was proof Stanford Football isn't being led by serious people and why I stopped taking the program seriously.

I’m just stating my guess as to what will happen.  Not what should happen.

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Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days.  They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures.  For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page.  About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

I still have the Sun Chron/Examiner sports page from ‘70 after Stanford beat SC. “Plunkett Keeps His Promise.”

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Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

The pressure must be getting to Shaw. He has been arrogant before and often unaware of his shortcomings but I have never heard him get snippy with a reporter before.

This may be the end for a decent man who could not be truthful with himself. I always wonder if he had fully reevaluated things after the 2019 season whether things could have been different. When he made no changes to an obviously deficient coaching staff after the 2021 season I knew he was cooked. The question now is when does he get pulled out of the oven.

Here is the link to the exchange in question. https://youtu.be/6Z6Yb25eQb8?t=773

The irony is that Shaw has a smirk during most questions...

Walsh used to smirk.  Was as smug as they come - according to any non- Stanford/Niner fan.

[lex24]

I put the odds of Shaw not returning as HC next year at 5 to 1.  My guess, he will make some changes within his assistant ranks.  But he gets one more year.

What would be the rationale for this? How does it make sense to "get one more year," exactly?  I mean if you are saying "one more year" you are effectively already showing you don't have confidence. Why do you want someone in charge who doesn't have your confidence? Makes zero sense.

Brian Kelly went 4-8, cleaned house, and returned to Top 10 status. But these changes came from himself, not after being pressured to make changes. Jim Harbaugh is another one. He makes changes proactively and is always looking to improve.

I've never in my memory seen a coach pressured into making coaching staff changes ever turn things around because the fact he didn't do it himself demonstrates he isn't fit for the job. Shaw proved he was unfit when he made zero changes after last season. That was proof Stanford Football isn't being led by serious people and why I stopped taking the program seriously.

I’m just stating my guess as to what will happen.  Not what should happen.

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Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days.  They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures.  For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page.  About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

I still have the Sun Chron/Examiner sports page from ‘70 after Stanford beat SC. “Plunkett Keeps His Promise.”

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Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

The pressure must be getting to Shaw. He has been arrogant before and often unaware of his shortcomings but I have never heard him get snippy with a reporter before.

This may be the end for a decent man who could not be truthful with himself. I always wonder if he had fully reevaluated things after the 2019 season whether things could have been different. When he made no changes to an obviously deficient coaching staff after the 2021 season I knew he was cooked. The question now is when does he get pulled out of the oven.

Here is the link to the exchange in question. https://youtu.be/6Z6Yb25eQb8?t=773

The irony is that Shaw has a smirk during most questions...

Walsh used to smirk.  Was as smug as they come - according to any non- Stanford/Niner fan.