[JohnR34231]

The hits keep on coming.
A Left Coast kid with a 4.0 GPA turns us down because he wants to play in the NFL and he's afraid that if he goes to Stanford he won't be able to?
That's a head scratcher.

https://stormininnorman.com/2020/06/18/o...4-star-de/

I'm not so sure I would be blaming Stanford here.  I mean is Stanford the right place for a kid who only is thinking of the NFL?  I think he chose the right place in Oklahoma. David Shaw himself will say he wants kids who want to play in the NFL AND want to get a Stanford education. 

Even if considering RS Soph early entries, those guys still have 2+ years of Stanford and can finish their degrees after going pro.

I don't think this kid was only thinking of the NFL (after all he is supposedly a 4.0 student), but he definitely wanted to get there.
As is going to be true with most of the top recruits we pursue.
If we can't convince them they have just as good a chance at Stanford as they would somewhere else we have got problems.
At least IMO.

[JohnR34231]

The hits keep on coming.
A Left Coast kid with a 4.0 GPA turns us down because he wants to play in the NFL and he's afraid that if he goes to Stanford he won't be able to?
That's a head scratcher.

https://stormininnorman.com/2020/06/18/o...4-star-de/

I'm not so sure I would be blaming Stanford here.  I mean is Stanford the right place for a kid who only is thinking of the NFL?  I think he chose the right place in Oklahoma. David Shaw himself will say he wants kids who want to play in the NFL AND want to get a Stanford education. 

Even if considering RS Soph early entries, those guys still have 2+ years of Stanford and can finish their degrees after going pro.

I don't think this kid was only thinking of the NFL (after all he is supposedly a 4.0 student), but he definitely wanted to get there.
As is going to be true with most of the top recruits we pursue.
If we can't convince them they have just as good a chance at Stanford as they would somewhere else we have got problems.
At least IMO.