[Row80Critic]

Institutional roadblocks aside, I still think Taylor's seat-heater deserves to be clicked on.  

After 20 games, Taylor officially has the worst win-loss record in the 130 yr history of the program -- worse than Harris, worse than Teevens, worse than Wiggin, worse than every coach fired after one season.  Surprisingly, he's now coached more games than about half of all Stanford head coaches.  WF made some bad in-game coaching decisions today, yet Stanford was still out-coached. As Shaw said about himself, it's time. If Stanford wants to compete at this level (do they?), they need to go out and get a name-brand coach.  They certainly have the money if they want to, as evidenced by Shaw's final paychecks...

All good points.
I’m reminded of Yankees back in the day. The owner didn’t tolerate losing
Patience was in short supply.
Managers were fired spontaneously and often for poor team performance.
But Muir isn’t Steinbrenner and Cards are not the Yankees
Hence I’d be shocked if any move towards Coach TT is taken any time before end of this season, if then.

Oh, for sure.  No real point in doing anything before the end of the season, unless needed to secure someone new.  That said, I'm very aware the whole concept of pro-actively replacing a bad coach in a timely manner is something between a pipe dream and a coin in a fountain. Same could be said for all of the program's other administration-imposed obstacles. If they go 2-10 this season, maybe they'd take some action on the coach, but I'd still put the odds at or under 50%, sadly.

[Row80Critic]

Institutional roadblocks aside, I still think Taylor's seat-heater deserves to be clicked on.  

After 20 games, Taylor officially has the worst win-loss record in the 130 yr history of the program -- worse than Harris, worse than Teevens, worse than Wiggin, worse than every coach fired after one season.  Surprisingly, he's now coached more games than about half of all Stanford head coaches.  WF made some bad in-game coaching decisions today, yet Stanford was still out-coached. As Shaw said about himself, it's time. If Stanford wants to compete at this level (do they?), they need to go out and get a name-brand coach.  They certainly have the money if they want to, as evidenced by Shaw's final paychecks...

All good points.
I’m reminded of Yankees back in the day. The owner didn’t tolerate losing
Patience was in short supply.
Managers were fired spontaneously and often for poor team performance.
But Muir isn’t Steinbrenner and Cards are not the Yankees
Hence I’d be shocked if any move towards Coach TT is taken any time before end of this season, if then.

Oh, for sure.  No real point in doing anything before the end of the season, unless needed to secure someone new.  That said, I'm very aware the whole concept of pro-actively replacing a bad coach in a timely manner is something between a pipe dream and a coin in a fountain. Same could be said for all of the program's other administration-imposed obstacles. If they go 2-10 this season, maybe they'd take some action on the coach, but I'd still put the odds at or under 50%, sadly.