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If Shaw and Stanford set him off,  the author would probably vaporize once he starts looking at the end of the Tedford/Barbour Age.    But we know that won't happen because he's looking for a parade and he's found one.  Now he's racing to get to the front.  Gotta drive those click counts.

Personally, I can see where Shaw's view is on the wrong side of history.  Not because he's wrong in the Stanford context,  but because this is bigger than reasoned arguments about the positives of the current college system.  This is about money and power.  Some got it and some don't and the have-nots will burn down the landscape for either, or both.

P.S.  Yes 71Bear,  there are coaches who might make the same arguments and they'd be right, and also on the wrong side of history.  But I'd rather read the comments of a football coach who has skin in the game than a blogger who knows the road to oblivion in sports awaits for those with moderate, reasoned opinions. (The superb baseball writer Roger Angell would never have been able to make it in today's blogosphere.  I wish  baseball in real life were as good and entertaining as Angell's work.  I'm glad he published when he did. ) 

And you, 71Bear.  Why not 'out" yourself and be specific on the parts of the amateur college athletics model you support or think should be changed?

[Redrum]

If Shaw and Stanford set him off,  the author would probably vaporize once he starts looking at the end of the Tedford/Barbour Age.    But we know that won't happen because he's looking for a parade and he's found one.  Now he's racing to get to the front.  Gotta drive those click counts.

Personally, I can see where Shaw's view is on the wrong side of history.  Not because he's wrong in the Stanford context,  but because this is bigger than reasoned arguments about the positives of the current college system.  This is about money and power.  Some got it and some don't and the have-nots will burn down the landscape for either, or both.

P.S.  Yes 71Bear,  there are coaches who might make the same arguments and they'd be right, and also on the wrong side of history.  But I'd rather read the comments of a football coach who has skin in the game than a blogger who knows the road to oblivion in sports awaits for those with moderate, reasoned opinions. (The superb baseball writer Roger Angell would never have been able to make it in today's blogosphere.  I wish  baseball in real life were as good and entertaining as Angell's work.  I'm glad he published when he did. ) 

And you, 71Bear.  Why not 'out" yourself and be specific on the parts of the amateur college athletics model you support or think should be changed?