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Stylistically, I think Shaw more-or-less knows how to handle these pro-style teams.

That's an interesting question.

Wilner has a theory that any team that describes their offense as " -Raid" cannot beat Stanford under Shaw, but that the team struggles with teams that can slug away with them in the trenches.

I used to sort of believe this. Probably not now. It seems to have been based on 2012/2013.

Of course Stanford doesn't really play many pro-style teams. MSU qualifies.  UW (pre-2013), U$C, und, and Utah are probably more pro-style than anyone else we play (am I forgetting anyone?). Those teams have dominated our losses, particularly 2012-13.

Losses under Shaw were:
2011 - Oregon and Ok State
2012 - UW, und  (UW back then was still mostly pro-style)
2013 - Utah, U$C, Mich State
2014 - U$C, und, ASU, Oregon, Utah
2015 - Northwestern, Oregon

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Stylistically, I think Shaw more-or-less knows how to handle these pro-style teams.

That's an interesting question.

Wilner has a theory that any team that describes their offense as " -Raid" cannot beat Stanford under Shaw, but that the team struggles with teams that can slug away with them in the trenches.

I used to sort of believe this. Probably not now. It seems to have been based on 2012/2013.

Of course Stanford doesn't really play many pro-style teams. MSU qualifies.  UW (pre-2013), U$C, und, and Utah are probably more pro-style than anyone else we play (am I forgetting anyone?). Those teams have dominated our losses, particularly 2012-13.

Losses under Shaw were:
2011 - Oregon and Ok State
2012 - UW, und  (UW back then was still mostly pro-style)
2013 - Utah, U$C, Mich State
2014 - U$C, und, ASU, Oregon, Utah
2015 - Northwestern, Oregon