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Very tough business. Yet they all earn millions of dollars for doing it. Shaw is the highest-paid employee on the Farm, no? Seems to me such high-paid, public positions should/would come with lots of scrutiny. Also, of these seven coaches/teams, how many have chosen not to fill their rosters with scholarship players? How many don't take a QB every year? I understand that Shaw is the only coach on this list who has to have his recruits apply and get through Stanford admissions, but we've all been witness to Shaw, for whatever reason, being very cavalier about filling roster spots. 

One more thing: I'm okay with rebuilding and down seasons. I've weathered plenty of them all these years as a Stanford fan, across multiple sports. But I'd like to see some adjustments and adaptations, b/c this isn't one year in the making. This 4-8/5-7 season didn't fall out of the sky suddenly. And maybe we will see some changes; I'm willing to give Shaw the benefit of the doubt here, for now.

UW under Petersen is 6-5, having just lost to Colorado (and us)
Northwestern under Fitzgerald is 2-9, 0-8 in the BigTen (having lost to us and pretty much everyone else)
Michigan State under Mark Dantonio is 5-6
UCLA under Chip Kelley is 4-7 (though one of the four wins is against us)
WSU under the pirate is 6-5 (having just been on the other side of an epic coup by OSU)
Nebraska under Scott Frost is 5-6
And of course David Shaw is 4-7, having lost to two of the coaches on this list

All of these are excellent, well-respected coaches, who have a demonstrated capability of winning.  All of them have had disappointing seasons compared to what their fans have gotten used to. Some, like Frost and Kelley are only in their second seasons and are rebuilding their teams. I don’t go to other fans’ cardboard equivalents, but I would be shocked if we didn’t see posts bitching and moaning the demise of their program, and how their coach is not living up to expectations, and worrying about whether they’ve lost a step (or in Frost’s case just can’t hack it in a bigger conference).  I expect most (including Shaw) will bounce back next year.

The bottom line is coaching is a hard business, and Shaw is hardly the only good coach with a disappointing season.

BC

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Very tough business. Yet they all earn millions of dollars for doing it. Shaw is the highest-paid employee on the Farm, no? Seems to me such high-paid, public positions should/would come with lots of scrutiny. Also, of these seven coaches/teams, how many have chosen not to fill their rosters with scholarship players? How many don't take a QB every year? I understand that Shaw is the only coach on this list who has to have his recruits apply and get through Stanford admissions, but we've all been witness to Shaw, for whatever reason, being very cavalier about filling roster spots. 

One more thing: I'm okay with rebuilding and down seasons. I've weathered plenty of them all these years as a Stanford fan, across multiple sports. But I'd like to see some adjustments and adaptations, b/c this isn't one year in the making. This 4-8/5-7 season didn't fall out of the sky suddenly. And maybe we will see some changes; I'm willing to give Shaw the benefit of the doubt here, for now.

UW under Petersen is 6-5, having just lost to Colorado (and us)
Northwestern under Fitzgerald is 2-9, 0-8 in the BigTen (having lost to us and pretty much everyone else)
Michigan State under Mark Dantonio is 5-6
UCLA under Chip Kelley is 4-7 (though one of the four wins is against us)
WSU under the pirate is 6-5 (having just been on the other side of an epic coup by OSU)
Nebraska under Scott Frost is 5-6
And of course David Shaw is 4-7, having lost to two of the coaches on this list

All of these are excellent, well-respected coaches, who have a demonstrated capability of winning.  All of them have had disappointing seasons compared to what their fans have gotten used to. Some, like Frost and Kelley are only in their second seasons and are rebuilding their teams. I don’t go to other fans’ cardboard equivalents, but I would be shocked if we didn’t see posts bitching and moaning the demise of their program, and how their coach is not living up to expectations, and worrying about whether they’ve lost a step (or in Frost’s case just can’t hack it in a bigger conference).  I expect most (including Shaw) will bounce back next year.

The bottom line is coaching is a hard business, and Shaw is hardly the only good coach with a disappointing season.

BC