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My point is that it is clear Stanford football is swimming against the current both externally in the current CFB landscape and internally with university leadership. To succeed in spite of that will require both a rare coach and rare force of personaility to sell students and the university on the vision. 

Shaw was getting paid, what between $6 and 9 million per, and was the highest paid employee of the university. For him to throw others under the bus is pathetic. If he saw the current changing, what did he do to try push MTL, Muir, Scott, the other coaches, anyone to react to the changes? That's what good leaders do. Does anyone here recall Shaw saying anything about the conference's future and the need for change at both the Pac-12 and Stanford? Did he try to drive that change, or was he just as complacent about those issues as he had been regarding recruiting and coaching the last few years?

The topic getting old? Sure it is. But it certainly wasn't his detractors who went on a podcast and blamed everyone else for not adapting to a changing landscape. It wasn't his detractors who went on said podcast peacocking about getting two NFL offers every year while he was at Stanford. . . .

[cardcrimson]

My point is that it is clear Stanford football is swimming against the current both externally in the current CFB landscape and internally with university leadership. To succeed in spite of that will require both a rare coach and rare force of personaility to sell students and the university on the vision. 

Shaw was getting paid, what between $6 and 9 million per, and was the highest paid employee of the university. For him to throw others under the bus is pathetic. If he saw the current changing, what did he do to try push MTL, Muir, Scott, the other coaches, anyone to react to the changes? That's what good leaders do. Does anyone here recall Shaw saying anything about the conference's future and the need for change at both the Pac-12 and Stanford? Did he try to drive that change, or was he just as complacent about those issues as he had been regarding recruiting and coaching the last few years?

The topic getting old? Sure it is. But it certainly wasn't his detractors who went on a podcast and blamed everyone else for not adapting to a changing landscape. It wasn't his detractors who went on said podcast peacocking about getting two NFL offers every year while he was at Stanford. . . .