[JohnR34231]

I have nothing against him, but I won't root for him or follow him like I do other Stanford alums in the bros.

You know, when you put it like that, I suppose I feel the same way. I'm certainly not mad at him for making the best decision for him, but spending a year at another school means he's not really a "Stanford guy" at the next level, is he?  If a guy leaves early for the pros, I've made pretty clearly on this board that I'm mostly fine with that (for example, I still very much root for Christian McCaffrey to succeed), but there's a meaningful difference (for me, at least) between starting a pro career early and leaving for another school first. Again, I've got no beef with Reid Travis, I respect him doing what's best for him, and I agree that he made the right decision. But sometimes making the right decision still has costs, and I suppose one of the costs of going to Kentucky is that Stanford fans no longer think of Reid as "our guy." I'm sure he's completely fine with that, but such is life.

Interesting. It would seem to me that a guy who gets a Stanford degree would be more of a "Stanford guy" than one who leaves without a degree to get the big bucks in the pros, regardless of what the former does after he gets the degree. I guess we all have our opinions.

[JohnR34231]

I have nothing against him, but I won't root for him or follow him like I do other Stanford alums in the bros.

You know, when you put it like that, I suppose I feel the same way. I'm certainly not mad at him for making the best decision for him, but spending a year at another school means he's not really a "Stanford guy" at the next level, is he?  If a guy leaves early for the pros, I've made pretty clearly on this board that I'm mostly fine with that (for example, I still very much root for Christian McCaffrey to succeed), but there's a meaningful difference (for me, at least) between starting a pro career early and leaving for another school first. Again, I've got no beef with Reid Travis, I respect him doing what's best for him, and I agree that he made the right decision. But sometimes making the right decision still has costs, and I suppose one of the costs of going to Kentucky is that Stanford fans no longer think of Reid as "our guy." I'm sure he's completely fine with that, but such is life.

Interesting. It would seem to me that a guy who gets a Stanford degree would be more of a "Stanford guy" than one who leaves without a degree to get the big bucks in the pros, regardless of what the former does after he gets the degree. I guess we all have our opinions.