02-25-2020, 03:19 PM
(02-25-2020, 02:19 PM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Now Johnson... He strikes me as a guy who really was more interested in getting a Stanford degree than he was playing football. Would a kid from Alabama who was truly passionate about football, with offers from Alabama and Auburn, turn those two programs down? It's possible, but we rarely see it. So you have to ask yourself if the reason Johnson chose Stanford was because he isn't that passionate about football.
Sorry, but I don't think it's appropriate to even speculate about this, especially given Ryan Johnson's extenuating circumstances (injuries, father passed away a few years ago). My assumption, until proven otherwise, is that every Stanford student-athlete is equally passionate about athletics AND academics. We owe them our support and the benefit of the doubt when things don't go the way that we (or they) would want.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)