[Mick]

Et tu Reynaud? Sacre' bleu. Whatever happened to the "40-year decision"? More like a 40-week or 40-month decision for some of these (student)-athletes?

Reynaud and all the others have every right to transfer, but if this is what it means to have a DI basketball team in the portal/NIL era, then what the hell are we doing.  Of all the players that Haase has recruited and signed, how many of them will wind up having graduated from Stanford?  Is it even half?  How many football players recruited in Shaw's last five years graduated from Stanford?  Even the women's basketball team has had a rather large share of recent recruits going to other schools, including three last year alone.x

This is not a system that Stanford should be a part of.  It's not good for the school, it's not good for the scholar athletes, and as a fan, I've never been less interested in Stanford sports, and for that matter the University itself (though I won't be able to help myself in rooting for the women's basketball team in the next few weeks).

If it weren't for loss aversion and the fact that a lot of people depend on Stanford athletics, there is no way that we would establish an athletics program under these circumstances.   We keep engaging in this madness because we always have, but it is largely time to get off this train.  Collegiate athletics will fall under the weight of its own internal contradictions.   It's sad, but this is why we can't have nice things.

BC

100% agree. Maybe it's time to discuss dismantling the programs.

[Mick]

Et tu Reynaud? Sacre' bleu. Whatever happened to the "40-year decision"? More like a 40-week or 40-month decision for some of these (student)-athletes?

Reynaud and all the others have every right to transfer, but if this is what it means to have a DI basketball team in the portal/NIL era, then what the hell are we doing.  Of all the players that Haase has recruited and signed, how many of them will wind up having graduated from Stanford?  Is it even half?  How many football players recruited in Shaw's last five years graduated from Stanford?  Even the women's basketball team has had a rather large share of recent recruits going to other schools, including three last year alone.x

This is not a system that Stanford should be a part of.  It's not good for the school, it's not good for the scholar athletes, and as a fan, I've never been less interested in Stanford sports, and for that matter the University itself (though I won't be able to help myself in rooting for the women's basketball team in the next few weeks).

If it weren't for loss aversion and the fact that a lot of people depend on Stanford athletics, there is no way that we would establish an athletics program under these circumstances.   We keep engaging in this madness because we always have, but it is largely time to get off this train.  Collegiate athletics will fall under the weight of its own internal contradictions.   It's sad, but this is why we can't have nice things.

BC

100% agree. Maybe it's time to discuss dismantling the programs.