[Bruce Wang]

The topic of a hypothetical tradeoff between success in football/basketball vs the other sports has surfaced here several times.  Came across this ESPN blog article  that ponders a rationale.  The author points out that the SEC schools field the minimum number of sports (16).  Note that Stanford fields 36.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id...ent-models

The opportunity to study or coach at Stanford is so special that I think Stanford can have its cake and eat it too.

[Bruce Wang]

The topic of a hypothetical tradeoff between success in football/basketball vs the other sports has surfaced here several times.  Came across this ESPN blog article  that ponders a rationale.  The author points out that the SEC schools field the minimum number of sports (16).  Note that Stanford fields 36.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id...ent-models

The opportunity to study or coach at Stanford is so special that I think Stanford can have its cake and eat it too.