[2006alum]

Oh well Monty was t the first Mbb coacg we lost because of admissions

Then why did Monty literally say the opposite to the Chronicle[/url] in 2004?:

Former coach [url=https://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=sports&inlineLink=1&searchindex=solr&query=%22Mike+Montgomery%22]Mike Montgomery was one of them. During the 2002-03 season his former assistant and longtime friend Stew Morrill, the coach at Utah State, said he noticed Montgomery increasingly frustrated with the difficulties presented by the admissions standards.
Asked whether it had gotten more difficult to get players admitted to Stanford in recent years, Montgomery responded: "You're not going to get me to answer that question. I don't think anybody wants to talk about that."
He did add, however, that the admissions challenges did not play a role in his decision to leave Stanford after 18 years and take the Warriors coaching job May 21.

And I am not surprised the SAT/GPA combination went up - when the University's acceptance rate drops almost by half, I would assume all admitted students' SAT/GPA combos are going to be higher. 

Call me old fashioned, but I guess I share this view more than the view that we should lower the bar just to get top athletes in:

Tipton graduated from Stanford in 1971 and has worked there for 15 years, so he understands the school's priorities. It gnaws at him when a top prospect who's eager to come to The Farm gets rejected, then joins a Pac-10 rival and burns the Cardinal.
Like many alumni, though, he'd rather see that happen than have the admissions standards lowered. Leland said that message comes across clearly in alumni functions.
"The value Stanford has is that these kids will be admitted as students first," Leland said, "and the minute that stops happening is the minute our faculty will throw us off campus."

[2006alum]

Oh well Monty was t the first Mbb coacg we lost because of admissions

Then why did Monty literally say the opposite to the Chronicle[/url] in 2004?:

Former coach [url=https://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=sports&inlineLink=1&searchindex=solr&query=%22Mike+Montgomery%22]Mike Montgomery was one of them. During the 2002-03 season his former assistant and longtime friend Stew Morrill, the coach at Utah State, said he noticed Montgomery increasingly frustrated with the difficulties presented by the admissions standards.
Asked whether it had gotten more difficult to get players admitted to Stanford in recent years, Montgomery responded: "You're not going to get me to answer that question. I don't think anybody wants to talk about that."
He did add, however, that the admissions challenges did not play a role in his decision to leave Stanford after 18 years and take the Warriors coaching job May 21.

And I am not surprised the SAT/GPA combination went up - when the University's acceptance rate drops almost by half, I would assume all admitted students' SAT/GPA combos are going to be higher. 

Call me old fashioned, but I guess I share this view more than the view that we should lower the bar just to get top athletes in:

Tipton graduated from Stanford in 1971 and has worked there for 15 years, so he understands the school's priorities. It gnaws at him when a top prospect who's eager to come to The Farm gets rejected, then joins a Pac-10 rival and burns the Cardinal.
Like many alumni, though, he'd rather see that happen than have the admissions standards lowered. Leland said that message comes across clearly in alumni functions.
"The value Stanford has is that these kids will be admitted as students first," Leland said, "and the minute that stops happening is the minute our faculty will throw us off campus."