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Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - Redrum - 08-27-2012

Losses to USC/ UDub/ Kal/ Oregon

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2012/08/27/stanford-football-game-by-game-predictions-and-schedule-analysis-3/#more-26314

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - yvonne - 08-27-2012

Wow, it'll be great to have wins over each of those teams!

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - pcgoode - 08-27-2012

Here is the ESPN power rankings. 

http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/43375/final-preseason-pac-12-power-rankings

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - washingtonismoney - 08-27-2012

Put Wilner firmly down on the Nunes-skepticism camp. Combined with his assertion earlier that there's no way Nunes makes it through September (or was it October?) healthy and unchallenged as the starter, and you begin to wonder who pissed in his Cheerios over the QB decision. A fine, evidence-based approach he's utilizing...

EDIT: not that I think the particular overall prediction is implausible, or even that Nunes will be (if I can infer from his article) a below-average QB. That might very well happen! Since I'm down for an 8/9 win season, I'm only slightly more optimistic than Wilner. Nevertheless the assumptions that Wilner makes--without evidence--are more than a bit grating.

EDIT2: It's also goofy that he talks about kal's speed. Come on: their speed? Get outta here.

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - OutsiderFan - 08-27-2012

It seems fair to say Wilner is still skeptical about Shaw.  He, like others, saw the open practices, and concluded Nottingham was better, so he believes Shaw is out to lunch with the Nunes selection. 

The reality is Wilner is also in the "it was mostly Luck" camp.  I don't think he can get his head around the fact Stanford could have an elite defense either.  He's entitled to his opinion.  Stanford has to prove itself now.  If they do have a great team in 2012, Stanford will have firmly established itself as an elite program, not just a good program that had a great QB and great coach (Harbaugh).





Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - FarmBoy - 08-27-2012

I especially like the claim of C.al's purported home-field advantage. Yes, they've clearly dominated Stanford in Memorial Stadium to the tune of a 24-21-6 record in Stanford's favor.

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - washingtonismoney - 08-27-2012

One last note: you could view this as, possibly, a good projection on the season. Wilner projects us to have a relatively successful season at 8-4 despite assuming nearly every important question of the offseason to have a bittersweet if not sour answer. (And, conversely, assumes most opponents to have sweet answers to their own offseason questions--it's certainly possible the Huskies might have addressed our dominance on the line of scrimmage, or much better defense, but it seems odd to assign it a higher level of probability than our unresolved questions. In addition, Stanford's beaten the Huskies by 30+ points over the past two years. The Huskies could be much better and still lose by, like, 9 or something.)

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - OutsiderFan - 08-27-2012

Let's see how the Huskies fare in Baton Rouge before assessing them too much.  LSU and Stanford are comparable in the trenches.  If the Huskies hold their own in that game, then maybe they can trip up Stanford.  If they get dominated, I don't think it is realistic to think they can beat Stanford, no matter how good Keith Price is.

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - fullmetal - 08-27-2012

I'm loving the comparison to LSU in the trenches.  May it always be so.

Re: Stanford's 2012 season: Wilner sez... - Hank 91 - 08-27-2012

Wilner's piece is interesting. I did the same thing about six weeks ago over on my site. Here's the link:
http://www.gomightycard.com/2012/07/forecasting-2012-one-game-at-a-time.html

If you click over, be sure to read the comments as well. Either Kevin Gemmell or Ted Miller included a link, so a lot of C.al fans came over and made a mess of the place with lots of snarky comments. Not surprisingly, the Stanford folks put them in their place.

Ever notice you NEVER see Wilner & Hank together at same time? - Redrum - 08-27-2012

Kind of takes the whole "suspicious similarity of predictions" hypothesis right out of the picture.