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Ryen Russillo interviews Shaw on a few topics of interest: https://www.theringer.com/ryen-russillo-...yreek-hill

Warning that this might be at least mildly enraging to the Shaw detractors on the board. For context, Russillo was a longtime ESPN radio host who worked with Stanford Steve, his persona is anti-hot-take and follows the NBA, NFL, and CFB closely. He has previously expressed a lot of admiration for Shaw and what he did at Stanford. 

A brief summary of Shaw's comments:

• On what it is like to watch his son play at UCLA, Shaw says he can turn down the coach part of his brain and just watch and enjoy. 
  
• On the Pac-12 dissolving, he says the 12 university presidents should issue an apology to the fanbase for their decisions that led to this, the biggest one he calls out is not approving Texas and Oklahoma. He felt that the Pac-12, and Stanford in particular, were playing with a different set of rules (not playing during COVID, lower TV revenue)
  
• On Stanford, Russillo speculates that out of all Power 5 programs Stanford is last in how much they care about football, Shaw says "that's very fair". Shaw recognized Hennessy and Etch as "getting it," and cites the Orange Bowl as being instrumental in showing admin that football is a powerful force for uniting alums ("the biggest gathering of alums off campus, in Florida"). States there was a spike in applications as well. Under new president and provost "we had to backtrack, the world changes, we didn't change." Mentions NIL and portal, "couldn't get the athletes". No hint of responsibility for himself.
  
• On leaving Stanford: reiterates his previous statement that he didn't leave because of the losing record, he just felt it was time to go. Says he was looking at the summer schedule, and for the first time he couldn't see himself doing it.
  
• On what's next: not looking for another college job, but very clearly angling for the NFL. Shaw states that while he was at Stanford he was offered on average 2 NFL jobs a year from 2011-2019.
  

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Ryen Russillo interviews Shaw on a few topics of interest: https://www.theringer.com/ryen-russillo-...yreek-hill

Warning that this might be at least mildly enraging to the Shaw detractors on the board. For context, Russillo was a longtime ESPN radio host who worked with Stanford Steve, his persona is anti-hot-take and follows the NBA, NFL, and CFB closely. He has previously expressed a lot of admiration for Shaw and what he did at Stanford. 

A brief summary of Shaw's comments:

• On what it is like to watch his son play at UCLA, Shaw says he can turn down the coach part of his brain and just watch and enjoy. 
  
• On the Pac-12 dissolving, he says the 12 university presidents should issue an apology to the fanbase for their decisions that led to this, the biggest one he calls out is not approving Texas and Oklahoma. He felt that the Pac-12, and Stanford in particular, were playing with a different set of rules (not playing during COVID, lower TV revenue)
  
• On Stanford, Russillo speculates that out of all Power 5 programs Stanford is last in how much they care about football, Shaw says "that's very fair". Shaw recognized Hennessy and Etch as "getting it," and cites the Orange Bowl as being instrumental in showing admin that football is a powerful force for uniting alums ("the biggest gathering of alums off campus, in Florida"). States there was a spike in applications as well. Under new president and provost "we had to backtrack, the world changes, we didn't change." Mentions NIL and portal, "couldn't get the athletes". No hint of responsibility for himself.
  
• On leaving Stanford: reiterates his previous statement that he didn't leave because of the losing record, he just felt it was time to go. Says he was looking at the summer schedule, and for the first time he couldn't see himself doing it.
  
• On what's next: not looking for another college job, but very clearly angling for the NFL. Shaw states that while he was at Stanford he was offered on average 2 NFL jobs a year from 2011-2019.