[Jamesy]

No doubt Stanford football would benefit from more access to the portal and being more enticing from an NIL perspective, so that's all good in my book.  

HOWEVER, this team had enough talent for a winning season!  Teams with half the talent outplayed Stanford.  This season was not about a lack of talent.  Focusing on the portal and NIL is just another oh-so-clever way to blame anything and everything other than the elephant in the room: this team was poorly coached.  There's no getting around the fact that the coaching staff simply FAILED to put this team in a position to win, week after week.  So it's highly frustrating to hear the coach blame everything under the sun except his own personal performance and decisions, particularly when those decisions (or lack of decisions) seem to be the heart of the problem.

Actually this team had little talent. Slower  than mud.   Physically dominated damn near every week. Decimated by injuries.  No coaching staff is going to be able to win with that set of circumstances.  But it doesn’t matter. It’s a results oriented job.  The results have been abysmal for a few years now. And the speed/strength deficit falls on the coach.  His job to recruit and develop.   Next…..  (Note- I think Lance Anderson deserves some props.  Defense was better than we had a right to expect.  Particularly given how much they had to be on the field.  They also improved as the season progressed. 

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claims to be having "a lot of great talks with our administration" and our admissions team as part of the solution.

I have mixed feelings about this. If Shaw is talking about substantially lowering admissions requirements to bring in nationally elite transfers, I don't want that to happen.

If its about looking at a new and creative set of admissions criteria for transfers, I would be on board to consider that. If it were to happen there should be some transparency about it to the public.

BTW, I agree if all this is true, it sure looks like Shaw is planning to be around for a long time.  If he can work with admissions there's probably no one in power planning to end his Stanford coaching career.

My only read is that Shaw is reflecting to the public that he ***THINKS*** he's going to be sticking around. We have no idea what he's thinking privately, and it could be the case that Shaw has no idea what Muir (or Muir's bosses) are thinking about his future at Stanford either.

I’m relatively certain an HC has a pretty good feeling of his “standing”. Short of a player revolt, I doubt he is going anywhere.

Our recruiting classes the last 4 years have been (per 24/7)
2022: 19th
2021: 43rd
2020: 21st
2019: 19th

These rankings take into account both number of recruits and average rating. This means that from a sheer talent perspective, we should at least be more talented than the median college football team. You say the transfer portal hurts us, but the 2019-2021 teams didn't have brobdingnagian numbers of outgoing transfers and still the team significantly underperformed. I'm less worried than others about the impact of NIL on recruiting. Both FB and MBB are recruiting at historical norms or even better, in the case of MBB. It's on the coaching, development, and game day planning/adjustments. Muir, Shaw and Haase all need to go.

[Jamesy]

No doubt Stanford football would benefit from more access to the portal and being more enticing from an NIL perspective, so that's all good in my book.  

HOWEVER, this team had enough talent for a winning season!  Teams with half the talent outplayed Stanford.  This season was not about a lack of talent.  Focusing on the portal and NIL is just another oh-so-clever way to blame anything and everything other than the elephant in the room: this team was poorly coached.  There's no getting around the fact that the coaching staff simply FAILED to put this team in a position to win, week after week.  So it's highly frustrating to hear the coach blame everything under the sun except his own personal performance and decisions, particularly when those decisions (or lack of decisions) seem to be the heart of the problem.

Actually this team had little talent. Slower  than mud.   Physically dominated damn near every week. Decimated by injuries.  No coaching staff is going to be able to win with that set of circumstances.  But it doesn’t matter. It’s a results oriented job.  The results have been abysmal for a few years now. And the speed/strength deficit falls on the coach.  His job to recruit and develop.   Next…..  (Note- I think Lance Anderson deserves some props.  Defense was better than we had a right to expect.  Particularly given how much they had to be on the field.  They also improved as the season progressed. 

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claims to be having "a lot of great talks with our administration" and our admissions team as part of the solution.

I have mixed feelings about this. If Shaw is talking about substantially lowering admissions requirements to bring in nationally elite transfers, I don't want that to happen.

If its about looking at a new and creative set of admissions criteria for transfers, I would be on board to consider that. If it were to happen there should be some transparency about it to the public.

BTW, I agree if all this is true, it sure looks like Shaw is planning to be around for a long time.  If he can work with admissions there's probably no one in power planning to end his Stanford coaching career.

My only read is that Shaw is reflecting to the public that he ***THINKS*** he's going to be sticking around. We have no idea what he's thinking privately, and it could be the case that Shaw has no idea what Muir (or Muir's bosses) are thinking about his future at Stanford either.

I’m relatively certain an HC has a pretty good feeling of his “standing”. Short of a player revolt, I doubt he is going anywhere.

Our recruiting classes the last 4 years have been (per 24/7)
2022: 19th
2021: 43rd
2020: 21st
2019: 19th

These rankings take into account both number of recruits and average rating. This means that from a sheer talent perspective, we should at least be more talented than the median college football team. You say the transfer portal hurts us, but the 2019-2021 teams didn't have brobdingnagian numbers of outgoing transfers and still the team significantly underperformed. I'm less worried than others about the impact of NIL on recruiting. Both FB and MBB are recruiting at historical norms or even better, in the case of MBB. It's on the coaching, development, and game day planning/adjustments. Muir, Shaw and Haase all need to go.