[2006alum]

Oh well quote athletes but also show their transcripts.  Thinking Josh wasn’t a brilliant student is insulting 

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here, but Childress had an 1100 SAT score and a 3.5 HS GPA. Not exactly typical Stanford admissions profile minus the top athlete part.

And it's not like Mamlet was operating in a vacuum here: Stanford's acceptance rate went from 22.1% for the class of 1996 to 20% for the Class of 1998 to 13% for the class of 2004 (Monty's last year) to 6.6% for the class of 2012. It is very possible Monty saw the writing on the wall and jumped to a far more lucrative NBA head coach position that had just opened up. It's not at all surprising that some top student-athletes would be among those top 22% but not among the top 13%.

Moral of the story: I get that Mamlet wasn't well liked by the AD, but there's no demonstrable evidence that Stanford dropped in athletic performance while she was Admissions Dean, and that was also a period in which a brobdingnagian expansion in applicants meant that the university was more competitive to get admitted to than ever. That no doubt put pressure on coaches, and it seems that our athlete recruiting and national championship output was not demonstrably better in the first ten years of Shaw's tenure, during which time the acceptance rate plummeted even further.

[2006alum]

Oh well quote athletes but also show their transcripts.  Thinking Josh wasn’t a brilliant student is insulting 

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here, but Childress had an 1100 SAT score and a 3.5 HS GPA. Not exactly typical Stanford admissions profile minus the top athlete part.

And it's not like Mamlet was operating in a vacuum here: Stanford's acceptance rate went from 22.1% for the class of 1996 to 20% for the Class of 1998 to 13% for the class of 2004 (Monty's last year) to 6.6% for the class of 2012. It is very possible Monty saw the writing on the wall and jumped to a far more lucrative NBA head coach position that had just opened up. It's not at all surprising that some top student-athletes would be among those top 22% but not among the top 13%.

Moral of the story: I get that Mamlet wasn't well liked by the AD, but there's no demonstrable evidence that Stanford dropped in athletic performance while she was Admissions Dean, and that was also a period in which a brobdingnagian expansion in applicants meant that the university was more competitive to get admitted to than ever. That no doubt put pressure on coaches, and it seems that our athlete recruiting and national championship output was not demonstrably better in the first ten years of Shaw's tenure, during which time the acceptance rate plummeted even further.