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 If Stanford WBB was a perpetual PAC-12 cellar dweller, Stanford fans could say "woe is me with these darn academic impediments".

The debate (which I think you started) has been over whether Stanford's academic requirements at least in part explain our lack of national championships for the past nearly 30 years. So now you have switched to arguing that if our academic standards were an impediment to success, we would be perpetual cellar dweller; therefore, since we are not perpetual cellar dwellers, our academic standards have no adverse effect. Those are very different arguments. The first is at least debatable. The second is a straw man: no one is arguing that high academic standards are an absolute barrier to conference success.

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 If Stanford WBB was a perpetual PAC-12 cellar dweller, Stanford fans could say "woe is me with these darn academic impediments".

The debate (which I think you started) has been over whether Stanford's academic requirements at least in part explain our lack of national championships for the past nearly 30 years. So now you have switched to arguing that if our academic standards were an impediment to success, we would be perpetual cellar dweller; therefore, since we are not perpetual cellar dwellers, our academic standards have no adverse effect. Those are very different arguments. The first is at least debatable. The second is a straw man: no one is arguing that high academic standards are an absolute barrier to conference success.