I wanted to start a thread on this because I have some questions. First, exactly how does it work? My understanding is if you have graduated in four years and have a year left of eligibility you are free to transfer into a graduate program. Is that correct? Second, am I correct in assuming that you have to be accepted by that school into a graduate program in order to transfer to that school. Can a player instead of going for an advanced degree in that fifth year, simply stay at the school the fifth year and take more units even though he’s earned enough units to have graduated? In other words stay in the undergraduate program and simply take more classes?
It seems to me that if my assumption about how this works that this portal system doesn’t work very well for Stanford. Pretty unlikely many players from other schools are going to be accepted into a Stanford graduate program. Also somewhat likely that some of the players who are in their 5th year who graduated at Stanford will not be able to get into Stanford graduate program.
As with everything having to do with Stanford football the assumption is this is Shaw’s fault. But it could be a whole host of factors. Maybe they can’t get in to the Stanford graduate program? Maybe they simply want to try a different experience? On the other hand maybe it’s the program. But does anybody actually have any evidence or any of that? Lotta pissing in the wind going on. But if you have evidence by all means lay it out there. I’d love to see it.
It seems to me that if my assumption about how this works that this portal system doesn’t work very well for Stanford. Pretty unlikely many players from other schools are going to be accepted into a Stanford graduate program. Also somewhat likely that some of the players who are in their 5th year who graduated at Stanford will not be able to get into Stanford graduate program.
As with everything having to do with Stanford football the assumption is this is Shaw’s fault. But it could be a whole host of factors. Maybe they can’t get in to the Stanford graduate program? Maybe they simply want to try a different experience? On the other hand maybe it’s the program. But does anybody actually have any evidence or any of that? Lotta pissing in the wind going on. But if you have evidence by all means lay it out there. I’d love to see it.