Future non-conference opponents

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RE: Future non-conference opponents - terry - 08-22-2019

For most of my life as a Stanford fan, I thought winning 7 games would be a successful season.

Now, I have the luxury of deciding which one of my Rose Bowl shirts I feel like wearing.

The last 10 years have been a great time to be a Stanford fan.

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BobK - 08-22-2019

So many years without a winning season

The Curtice 5 years
4 years with the great awesome incredible John Elway without a bowl game
The Wiggin years

Then Buddy and Wlat

Love my Rose Bowl Shirts

RE: Future non-conference opponents - cardcrimson - 08-22-2019

(08-22-2019, 11:24 AM)BobK Wrote: So many years without a winning season

The Curtice 5 years
4 years with the great awesome incredible John Elway without a bowl game
The Wiggin years

Then Buddy and Wlat

Love my Rose Bowl Shirts

The Elway and Wiggin years were pretty much the same, right?

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BobK - 08-22-2019

I said Wiggin
Elway years included a bowl

RE: Future non-conference opponents - terry - 08-22-2019

(08-22-2019, 12:28 PM)BobK Wrote: I said Wiggin
Elway years included a bowl

John Elway 1979-82, no bowls
Paul Wiggin 1980-83, no bowls
Jack Elway 1984-88, 1 bowl

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BobK - 08-22-2019

Talking coaches. Jack Elway the one bowl.
Had to play without John Paye

RE: Future non-conference opponents - Mick - 08-23-2019

I first became interested in Stanford football during the Plunkett years, as a young boy. Stanford football hadn't had a losing season since 1963. They were .500 or better for 18 consecutive seasons, with Walsh's two bowl games in the middle of my teens. I stayed a Stanford fan all the way through my freshman year in college. I thought Stanford had, if not a juggernaut, a solid program that basically finish between .500 and .750 every year.

Then the roof caved in. Stanford lost more than they won nine of the next ten years, until Green's final season and Walsh's first season. Walsh's final two get-me-out-of-here seasons were miserable, then came the Sheriff. And to be candid, I thought Stanford would be perfect for Willingham. He'd never have to talk to alumni, fans or media...not really, just in controlled doses. He went to bowl games four out of seven years and sure, he lost three of them, but he went to the first Rose Bowl in a few decades (under Perfect Storm conditions, granted) but he beat Cal every year. He wasn't a great recruiter, or great X's and O's guy, but his team had heart and there weren't any scandals, and frankly, TW seemed to be improving. He finished first or second in two of his last three years.

And then he took the ND contract. He failed, as I think we all knew he would. His strengths matched perfectly to Stanford and imperfectly to his new employer. No matter.

Buddy. Walt. 1-AA? Sounds good, especially since they hired that 1-AA guy, Harbaugh. Whoa, wait a second. This guy can coach. And recruit. And Shaw seemed even better.

We're in the golden age of Stanford football. 27 bowl games in 110+ years of football, including the last ten in a row. Who would have known at the end of a 1-11 tank season in 2006?

Now answer the question: when you woke up on October 6, 2007 and 1-3 Stanford was at the LA Coliseum playing #2 ranked USC as a 41 point underdog...did you think Stanford would win?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjvNzj7TobM

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BobK - 08-23-2019

Thanks for posting the video. So great to relive especially
Touchdown USC. Lol
Then and Harbaugh is going for the tie.

And Stanford football hasn’t looked back

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BostonCard - 08-23-2019

(08-23-2019, 03:37 PM)BobK Wrote: Thanks for posting the video. So great to relive especially
Touchdown USC. Lol
Then and Harbaugh is going for the tie.

And Stanford football hasn’t looked back

The announcers really ruined that moment. Kind of like the announcer who called Chris Francis Owusu's catch against UCLA when he tried to compare it against the SEC player whose name he couldn't remember (Tyrone Prothro).

BC

RE: Future non-conference opponents - Phogge - 08-23-2019

Tyrone Prothro. Tommy’s love-great great grandchild?

RE: Future non-conference opponents - French Rage - 08-23-2019

(08-23-2019, 03:46 PM)BostonCard Wrote:
(08-23-2019, 03:37 PM)BobK Wrote: Thanks for posting the video. So great to relive especially
Touchdown USC. Lol
Then and Harbaugh is going for the tie.

And Stanford football hasn’t looked back

The announcers really ruined that moment. Kind of like the announcer who called Chris Francis Owusu's catch against UCLA when he tried to compare it against the SEC player whose name he couldn't remember (Tyrone Prothro).

BC

Sorta like Musberger using all of C-Mac's exploits at the Rose Bowl to talk more about Fournette.

(08-23-2019, 01:56 PM)Mick Wrote: We're in the golden age of Stanford football. 27 bowl games in 110+ years of football, including the last ten in a row.

Actually, 30 in total. The first 10 took 70 years, then next 10 took 30 years, the last 10 took 10 years.

(And yes, I realize the increase over time makes this is comically misleading stat but hey I still like it.)

RE: Future non-conference opponents - BostonCard - 08-23-2019

At this rate, we’ll have our next 10 bowl games in the next 3 years!

BC