[GK3]

Degree from Mater Dei, Stanford and with more than six figures in the bank before 25. Good for him.

The whole transfer question is hardly simple or easy to understand if you consider how an 18 to 22 year old student athlete is going to look at it. If you are just an ordinary Stanford Student who spends four years at Stanford and graduates, how many of them will have a million dollars in the bank, some, yes, but most almost none.
You take a guy like Bachmier, his coach gets fired, the other guys whispering in his ear offer him more money so he leaves. Hardly suprising.  Frankly I think that any incoming athlete who will get NIL money at Stanford should be required to take a first quarter  course on how to manage your money and find good advisors. Stanford owes them that much for playing for us for at least one year.  I think always trying to recruit 4 and 5 star kids out of highschool is just leading to disappointment. I would focus on Junior and Seniors from other schools who are proven players who we can accept academically and then make them a very good NIL offer. 
How much time do we spend getting first and second year players up to speed physically?
It is particularly applicable to Basketball.  Look how much better we were last year with Blakes and the USC deserter.  I think we really need to recruit the Euros in many other sports.  For them, the education is probably more important than it is to many of our kids.
It is just a very different game than it used to be.

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Having a football program can be looked at like milk in a grocery store.
You put it in the back and you don't always make much profit on it.
Because people come into the store for it, and while there they walk past, and end up buying, other products.
Having the milk available benefits the sale of all the other products.
Having a D1 football program, even if usually losing games rather than winning, helps get you into the ACC power conference.
Once in that conference, all the other sports, from soccer to volleyball to basketball to swimming to baseball to softball to .... all benefit from being in among top competition with lots of national visibility.
If you drop the milk/football, then not likely to get the customers/get into or stay in a power conference, and then all the other products/sports get far less attention and sales/top athletes and would tail off.

Agree 100 percent

[GK3]

Degree from Mater Dei, Stanford and with more than six figures in the bank before 25. Good for him.

The whole transfer question is hardly simple or easy to understand if you consider how an 18 to 22 year old student athlete is going to look at it. If you are just an ordinary Stanford Student who spends four years at Stanford and graduates, how many of them will have a million dollars in the bank, some, yes, but most almost none.
You take a guy like Bachmier, his coach gets fired, the other guys whispering in his ear offer him more money so he leaves. Hardly suprising.  Frankly I think that any incoming athlete who will get NIL money at Stanford should be required to take a first quarter  course on how to manage your money and find good advisors. Stanford owes them that much for playing for us for at least one year.  I think always trying to recruit 4 and 5 star kids out of highschool is just leading to disappointment. I would focus on Junior and Seniors from other schools who are proven players who we can accept academically and then make them a very good NIL offer. 
How much time do we spend getting first and second year players up to speed physically?
It is particularly applicable to Basketball.  Look how much better we were last year with Blakes and the USC deserter.  I think we really need to recruit the Euros in many other sports.  For them, the education is probably more important than it is to many of our kids.
It is just a very different game than it used to be.

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Having a football program can be looked at like milk in a grocery store.
You put it in the back and you don't always make much profit on it.
Because people come into the store for it, and while there they walk past, and end up buying, other products.
Having the milk available benefits the sale of all the other products.
Having a D1 football program, even if usually losing games rather than winning, helps get you into the ACC power conference.
Once in that conference, all the other sports, from soccer to volleyball to basketball to swimming to baseball to softball to .... all benefit from being in among top competition with lots of national visibility.
If you drop the milk/football, then not likely to get the customers/get into or stay in a power conference, and then all the other products/sports get far less attention and sales/top athletes and would tail off.

Agree 100 percent