Like it or not, Ostler's piece was fair comment, albeit characteristically tongue-in-cheek. He is, first and foremost, a distinguished sportswriter, with all the bona-fides and cred he needs to be lauded annually by his peers for his work. But he isn't my point here. It's simply that Stanford football today, in case you haven't noticed, is at a frighteningly low ebb. Unknown territory, in fact. Abysmal. We are looking at a one-win season and not much better the year after. And maybe the one after that. Turnaround's gonna be long and frustrating. Is football in a death spiral? I dunno. But it's plausible. Apres Shaw, le deluge? How much of this writing on the wall did he see, anyway?
Life is too short to waste on crap football.