[StanfordMatt]

The quality of life that comes with being an assistant coach on a David Shaw staff is so high that assistants generally don't leave unless it's for a job that represents a significant promotion. Several have turned down big pay raises from other schools (Harbaugh essentially offered blank checks to Lance and Turley). Below is a list of the assistants who have moved on to other jobs since Shaw took over in 2011:

2011 DC Jason Tarver - Raiders DC
2011 STC Brian Polian - Texas A&M STC (the one quasi exception - Polian was a Harbs guy and didn't mesh with DS personality (i.e. he's a jerk just like Harbs))
2012 OC Pep Hamilton - Colts OC
2012 TE Ron Crook - West Virginia OL (WV native, more responsibility and big pay raise)
2013 DC Derek Mason - Vandy HC
2013 ILB David Kotulski - Vandy DC
2013 QB/WR Mike Sanford, Jr. - Boise OC (Boise alum and more responsibility)
2017 OC Mike Bloomgren - Rice HC
2017 RB Lance Taylor - Panthers WR

Those nine moves plus Randy Hart's retirement in 2015 represent the totality of full-time coaching moves (not counting QC's like Picazo and Ashfield) since Shaw was promoted to head coach in 2011. As I mentioned in another thread, DS has never fired an assistant coach. Sure, one of our ten assistants might have an opportunity to make a lateral move to another job but I doubt they'd take it. Anything can happen but the chances of another head coach out there eyeing a Stanford assistant for a job that would represent a significant promotion coming off the season we just had is marginal at best. Moreover, most job offers come as a result of coaches' networks. Several of our guys have been at Stanford for so long that their coaching networks are pretty limited.

TL;DR barring Akina retiring, I'm fully expecting Shaw to walk out on the field for our opener next year with the same 10 assistants as we have now.

[StanfordMatt]

The quality of life that comes with being an assistant coach on a David Shaw staff is so high that assistants generally don't leave unless it's for a job that represents a significant promotion. Several have turned down big pay raises from other schools (Harbaugh essentially offered blank checks to Lance and Turley). Below is a list of the assistants who have moved on to other jobs since Shaw took over in 2011:

2011 DC Jason Tarver - Raiders DC
2011 STC Brian Polian - Texas A&M STC (the one quasi exception - Polian was a Harbs guy and didn't mesh with DS personality (i.e. he's a jerk just like Harbs))
2012 OC Pep Hamilton - Colts OC
2012 TE Ron Crook - West Virginia OL (WV native, more responsibility and big pay raise)
2013 DC Derek Mason - Vandy HC
2013 ILB David Kotulski - Vandy DC
2013 QB/WR Mike Sanford, Jr. - Boise OC (Boise alum and more responsibility)
2017 OC Mike Bloomgren - Rice HC
2017 RB Lance Taylor - Panthers WR

Those nine moves plus Randy Hart's retirement in 2015 represent the totality of full-time coaching moves (not counting QC's like Picazo and Ashfield) since Shaw was promoted to head coach in 2011. As I mentioned in another thread, DS has never fired an assistant coach. Sure, one of our ten assistants might have an opportunity to make a lateral move to another job but I doubt they'd take it. Anything can happen but the chances of another head coach out there eyeing a Stanford assistant for a job that would represent a significant promotion coming off the season we just had is marginal at best. Moreover, most job offers come as a result of coaches' networks. Several of our guys have been at Stanford for so long that their coaching networks are pretty limited.

TL;DR barring Akina retiring, I'm fully expecting Shaw to walk out on the field for our opener next year with the same 10 assistants as we have now.