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...This doesn't mean Shaw can't still be a good HC for Stanford - great HC's delegate all the time.  But after a decade now, hope is basically gone that he'll ever make this move himself.

Shaw is a great HC for Stanford.

Bingo. You nailed it. He is a "great" HC --for Stanford. Problem, at least for some of us, is that he's not a particularly "great" HC.

[gailtate]

...This doesn't mean Shaw can't still be a good HC for Stanford - great HC's delegate all the time.  But after a decade now, hope is basically gone that he'll ever make this move himself.

Shaw is a great HC for Stanford.

Bingo. You nailed it. He is a "great" HC --for Stanford. Problem, at least for some of us, is that he's not a particularly "great" HC.