[Mick]

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.

He's forced into change, he doesn't necessarily want it. And personally, I think the first move he needs to do is get rid of his coordinators and get an amazing set of young, up and coming coaches, top to bottom.

And still...I'm not bothered by the conversations with admissions...at this point, we're just haggling over price.  Not too many 1560 SATs on the football team, I suspect. No, I don't want an athlete who can't do the work. But the coaching staff needs better athletes. And I think that Shaw is the only one who can realistically have that conversation...a new coach wouldn't have the power base to legitimize that conversation and would be brought in to say "sure, we can compete with these oppressive academic boundaries strangling us..."

[Mick]

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.

He's forced into change, he doesn't necessarily want it. And personally, I think the first move he needs to do is get rid of his coordinators and get an amazing set of young, up and coming coaches, top to bottom.

And still...I'm not bothered by the conversations with admissions...at this point, we're just haggling over price.  Not too many 1560 SATs on the football team, I suspect. No, I don't want an athlete who can't do the work. But the coaching staff needs better athletes. And I think that Shaw is the only one who can realistically have that conversation...a new coach wouldn't have the power base to legitimize that conversation and would be brought in to say "sure, we can compete with these oppressive academic boundaries strangling us..."