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It's the final in-season TreeCast of the Stanford sports season, and we catch up with Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics Bernard Muir for a wide-ranging chat. Bernard shares what's still left to do before Stanford officially becomes an ACC member, how Stanford can evolve its approach while maintaining its University identity, the outlooks ahead for football & both hoops programs, and more.

Download via the link below. It's been fun to bring back these shows! Hope you've enjoyed them, and hope the shows give you things you cannot get anywhere else. Thank you for listening! Off to summer mode......

Troy C

The TreeCast with Troy Clardy: Bernard Muir One-on-One (June 19, 2024)

Apart from learning about the new facilities for several teams, I found nothing of real interest or insight in this interview. Muir's replies to the questions he was asked consisted primarily of cliches, expressions of thanks to his bosses, and vanilla optimism about Stanford in the ACC. (One useful nugget was that he predicted that football games against Notre Dame were likely to continue.) Too bad he wasn't asked some tough questions, such as "Who are the parties most to blame for the demise of the Pac-12?", "Did Stanford make a protracted and vigorous effort to preserve the Pac-12, even after USC and UCLA said they were leaving?" "What did you think of the way the women's basketball season ended?", and "Why did it take so long before you decided to replace Haase when he hadn't been to the Dance since he was hired?" I'm sure there are much better and more provocative questions Muir could have been asked but I suppose Troy can't ask them or else he'll risk losing access in the future. So, he steered free of controversy, limited himself to marshmallow questions, and, predictably, was given innocuous and uninformative answers.

I'd rate Stanford's influence over USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon as minimal. On the other hand, Stanford should be satisfied those institutions are no longer trying to steer its bus.

[chrisk]

It's the final in-season TreeCast of the Stanford sports season, and we catch up with Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics Bernard Muir for a wide-ranging chat. Bernard shares what's still left to do before Stanford officially becomes an ACC member, how Stanford can evolve its approach while maintaining its University identity, the outlooks ahead for football & both hoops programs, and more.

Download via the link below. It's been fun to bring back these shows! Hope you've enjoyed them, and hope the shows give you things you cannot get anywhere else. Thank you for listening! Off to summer mode......

Troy C

The TreeCast with Troy Clardy: Bernard Muir One-on-One (June 19, 2024)

Apart from learning about the new facilities for several teams, I found nothing of real interest or insight in this interview. Muir's replies to the questions he was asked consisted primarily of cliches, expressions of thanks to his bosses, and vanilla optimism about Stanford in the ACC. (One useful nugget was that he predicted that football games against Notre Dame were likely to continue.) Too bad he wasn't asked some tough questions, such as "Who are the parties most to blame for the demise of the Pac-12?", "Did Stanford make a protracted and vigorous effort to preserve the Pac-12, even after USC and UCLA said they were leaving?" "What did you think of the way the women's basketball season ended?", and "Why did it take so long before you decided to replace Haase when he hadn't been to the Dance since he was hired?" I'm sure there are much better and more provocative questions Muir could have been asked but I suppose Troy can't ask them or else he'll risk losing access in the future. So, he steered free of controversy, limited himself to marshmallow questions, and, predictably, was given innocuous and uninformative answers.

I'd rate Stanford's influence over USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon as minimal. On the other hand, Stanford should be satisfied those institutions are no longer trying to steer its bus.