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Davis went 58-59 at Stanford.  The football record for those years (Wiggin and Elway) was 15-29, tied for the eighth-worst four year stretch in the 100+ year history of Stanford football.  This suggests to me that there may be a degree of merit to the theory that Davis could not get good recruits into Stanford.

Well, Tom Davis recruited Todd Lichti, Terry Taylor, Eric Reveno, and Howard Wright.  With Lichti, and Wright as starters in 85-86 (along with Koberlein, Ramee and part-time starters Greg Butler, Andy Fischer), Davis got 14 wins.  Enter Mike Montgomery. In 87-88, Monty gets 21 wins from Lichti, Wright, Taylor, Butler, and McSweeney.  I don't think recruiting was the problem.  I think Davis probably felt he didn't get the players he wanted, but the talent was there...

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Davis went 58-59 at Stanford.  The football record for those years (Wiggin and Elway) was 15-29, tied for the eighth-worst four year stretch in the 100+ year history of Stanford football.  This suggests to me that there may be a degree of merit to the theory that Davis could not get good recruits into Stanford.

Well, Tom Davis recruited Todd Lichti, Terry Taylor, Eric Reveno, and Howard Wright.  With Lichti, and Wright as starters in 85-86 (along with Koberlein, Ramee and part-time starters Greg Butler, Andy Fischer), Davis got 14 wins.  Enter Mike Montgomery. In 87-88, Monty gets 21 wins from Lichti, Wright, Taylor, Butler, and McSweeney.  I don't think recruiting was the problem.  I think Davis probably felt he didn't get the players he wanted, but the talent was there...