I like the way the straightforward and grainy image evokes tradition and continuity. I get Hulk's point but Stanford football fits well with that style choice in a way that basketball doesn't (at least in my mind.) These guys are just the next to represent Stanford in a string of excellence. Plus tradition, strength, discipline and old style virtues personify football as a sport but aren't the descriptors that spring to mind when I think basketball. In yet another season where everything is changing invoking continuity isn't a bad thing.
One minor point. I don't like the mismatched background words - "Inspire. Champions." The two words are placed together and separated by full stops in a way that suggests they are intentionally joined qualities, perhaps as two elements in a list. Yet when we look at the list we find that one quality is a verb and the other a noun.  As a counter example two nouns such as "Warriors. Champions." work together; Two verbs such as "Inspire. Excite." work. "Inspire. Champions." are words that are mismatched and unintentionally jarring.
I'm probably thinking too analytically.
One minor point. I don't like the mismatched background words - "Inspire. Champions." The two words are placed together and separated by full stops in a way that suggests they are intentionally joined qualities, perhaps as two elements in a list. Yet when we look at the list we find that one quality is a verb and the other a noun.  As a counter example two nouns such as "Warriors. Champions." work together; Two verbs such as "Inspire. Excite." work. "Inspire. Champions." are words that are mismatched and unintentionally jarring.
I'm probably thinking too analytically.
In 1938 Neville Chamberlain declared "Peace in our time", Superman first appeared in Action Comics, Seabiscuit beat War Admiral ....... and C.a.l last won the Rose Bowl.