[81alum]

Nottingham could do worse than Dartmouth.  What's his alternative?  Northern Arizona Univ.?  Sac State? Western Arkansas? California College, PA?  It would have to be a school that is desperate for a QB transfusion.  Came in 2010 class, so theoretically has only one and half more years of academics left.  At least playing for Dartmouth, he'd be getting an Ivy degree.  That'd be the tough choice,  bag on the Stanford education and bet it all on football accomplishment that might be good enough to get an NFL look...although he flunked ex-NFL offensive coordinator David Shaw's test.

I wish him the best and continue to wonder about his time here at Stanford.  He may have a great career ahead of him somewhere.  Somewhere I saw a Wisconsin fan asking about him....

I seem to remember this sort of situation happening before when we have had too many talented quarterbacks.  Didn't Scott Frost transfer from Stanford to Nebraska?  That may have been more of a style/fit issue, though.

Stanford often has this problem in other sports, such as WBB, when we have players on the bench who would almost certainly have started on most other teams around the country.  For a player without professional aspirations it is a simple decision--the Stanford degree is more than worth some disappointment about playing backup to highly talented teammates.  All Stanford students get used to being around prodigies and geniuses who outpace them in one way or another--combatting the inferiority complex is a standard theme at frosh orientation.

But I sense for some football players that calculus is not the same.  Nottingham was thought to be the 4th best quarterback in the country coming out of high school, and so giving up on professional aspirations without having a chance to start would be too much to accept.  It is hard to set aside a lifetime dream.

[81alum]

Nottingham could do worse than Dartmouth.  What's his alternative?  Northern Arizona Univ.?  Sac State? Western Arkansas? California College, PA?  It would have to be a school that is desperate for a QB transfusion.  Came in 2010 class, so theoretically has only one and half more years of academics left.  At least playing for Dartmouth, he'd be getting an Ivy degree.  That'd be the tough choice,  bag on the Stanford education and bet it all on football accomplishment that might be good enough to get an NFL look...although he flunked ex-NFL offensive coordinator David Shaw's test.

I wish him the best and continue to wonder about his time here at Stanford.  He may have a great career ahead of him somewhere.  Somewhere I saw a Wisconsin fan asking about him....

I seem to remember this sort of situation happening before when we have had too many talented quarterbacks.  Didn't Scott Frost transfer from Stanford to Nebraska?  That may have been more of a style/fit issue, though.

Stanford often has this problem in other sports, such as WBB, when we have players on the bench who would almost certainly have started on most other teams around the country.  For a player without professional aspirations it is a simple decision--the Stanford degree is more than worth some disappointment about playing backup to highly talented teammates.  All Stanford students get used to being around prodigies and geniuses who outpace them in one way or another--combatting the inferiority complex is a standard theme at frosh orientation.

But I sense for some football players that calculus is not the same.  Nottingham was thought to be the 4th best quarterback in the country coming out of high school, and so giving up on professional aspirations without having a chance to start would be too much to accept.  It is hard to set aside a lifetime dream.