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and yet Bernie and Shaw balk at piddling sums to hire a head trainer for football.

I know Conrad well and know the range facility story well (although I'd point out that the facilities race has caught up here too and the range makes up for the comparative decline in the course.  technology and land use loss have really hurt it.)

based on your outline, then may be the problem is our head coach doesn't ask?

I'm optimistic.  If Stanford decides something needs fixing, there is always the money to fix it.

And if Stanford doesn't decide that, a generous donor will.

If you want compelling evidence, on your next visit head up to Stanford golf course and visit the Siebel Golf Training Complex.  Ten years after its opening, it is still the most complete--and remarkable--training facility in the world. 

It came about as these things do.  Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) stopped by Conrad Ray's office one day in 2005 and asked "What do you need?"  The result, two years later, was far more than Conrad could have described.  There are five green complexes, each of the five in the style of one of the game's most prominent golf course architects.  There are  bunkers filled with each of the three different types of sand our varsity golfers will encounter, and greens seeded in fescue, Bermuda, and bent grass, so the golfers can prepare for the different grains they will encounter.

And on and on--every piece of technology that can help make a good golfer a better one, for example,

And Thomas Siebel isn't even a Stanford grad.  He's just  a Silicon Valley billionaire with a love of golf. 

If an alum with money thinks we have a problem, he or she can help us solve it.

And in relative terms, our endowment is bottomless.  As a comparison, we played TCU in a bowl game last year. TCU's total endowment is $1.6 billion.  Last year, Stanford's return on its endowment was almost twice that: $2.9 billion.  Stanford's endowment earns almost $8 million a day.  A day.

Problems at Stanford don't stay problems for long.  All that money, and all those Thomas Siebels, are the reasons.

And Stanford's advantage, like its endowment, is going to grow.  State schools aren't going to get richer.  They are going to get squeezed. Private schools might get richer than they are, but in 2025, Stanford's endowment should exceed $50 billion.  It will literally have more money than it knows what to do with.  

I'm not worried.  I've got worries in my life, to be, but Stanford's success in whatever it wishes to succeed in is not one of them.  And Stanford and its alums, or merely its fans like Tom Siebel, want to succeed at football.

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and yet Bernie and Shaw balk at piddling sums to hire a head trainer for football.

I know Conrad well and know the range facility story well (although I'd point out that the facilities race has caught up here too and the range makes up for the comparative decline in the course.  technology and land use loss have really hurt it.)

based on your outline, then may be the problem is our head coach doesn't ask?

I'm optimistic.  If Stanford decides something needs fixing, there is always the money to fix it.

And if Stanford doesn't decide that, a generous donor will.

If you want compelling evidence, on your next visit head up to Stanford golf course and visit the Siebel Golf Training Complex.  Ten years after its opening, it is still the most complete--and remarkable--training facility in the world. 

It came about as these things do.  Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) stopped by Conrad Ray's office one day in 2005 and asked "What do you need?"  The result, two years later, was far more than Conrad could have described.  There are five green complexes, each of the five in the style of one of the game's most prominent golf course architects.  There are  bunkers filled with each of the three different types of sand our varsity golfers will encounter, and greens seeded in fescue, Bermuda, and bent grass, so the golfers can prepare for the different grains they will encounter.

And on and on--every piece of technology that can help make a good golfer a better one, for example,

And Thomas Siebel isn't even a Stanford grad.  He's just  a Silicon Valley billionaire with a love of golf. 

If an alum with money thinks we have a problem, he or she can help us solve it.

And in relative terms, our endowment is bottomless.  As a comparison, we played TCU in a bowl game last year. TCU's total endowment is $1.6 billion.  Last year, Stanford's return on its endowment was almost twice that: $2.9 billion.  Stanford's endowment earns almost $8 million a day.  A day.

Problems at Stanford don't stay problems for long.  All that money, and all those Thomas Siebels, are the reasons.

And Stanford's advantage, like its endowment, is going to grow.  State schools aren't going to get richer.  They are going to get squeezed. Private schools might get richer than they are, but in 2025, Stanford's endowment should exceed $50 billion.  It will literally have more money than it knows what to do with.  

I'm not worried.  I've got worries in my life, to be, but Stanford's success in whatever it wishes to succeed in is not one of them.  And Stanford and its alums, or merely its fans like Tom Siebel, want to succeed at football.