[donkey687]

Football has never been vital to Stanford. Every now and then a Rose Bowl happens and people are shocked. Ted Cups are fine and a credit to the school and the support of you guys. There are probably millions of fans of the Olympics and thousands of fans of college Olympic sports.

So the school is saying in effect that we’d love to have Rose Bowl teams but you have to do it differently than the great majority of D1 programs. That is why it is so damn impressive when the staff and the players pull it off.

Stanford does it differently than other schools but football is also treated differently than other sports at Stanford so let's not pretend that Stanford isn't playing the same game as major football schools in most areas so why not get into the transfer game as well.  I remember seeing published data a few years back that showed SAT/ACT averages for football recruits and compared them to school averages. Stanford led on both fronts. 1) Stanford had the highest standardized test scores of any Division 1 school for football players 2) Stanford had the biggest deviation in scores from average student compared to football players.  Thus, Stanford has the highest standards for football players but also bends their standards the most to get football players in.  In other words the Alabama football player's scores are closer to the typical Alabama student than a Stanford football player is to a typical Stanford student. Bernard Muir just cut 11 Olympic sports at Stanford to concentrate resources on football and major sports. Let's not pretend we are too different from other Power 5 schools. We have the highest paid coach in the Pac12. We built a new stadium and have shiny facilities and a vast amount of support resources behind the football program.  We are pretty much all in so why pretend that we are holier than thou and not accept transfers.

[donkey687]

Football has never been vital to Stanford. Every now and then a Rose Bowl happens and people are shocked. Ted Cups are fine and a credit to the school and the support of you guys. There are probably millions of fans of the Olympics and thousands of fans of college Olympic sports.

So the school is saying in effect that we’d love to have Rose Bowl teams but you have to do it differently than the great majority of D1 programs. That is why it is so damn impressive when the staff and the players pull it off.

Stanford does it differently than other schools but football is also treated differently than other sports at Stanford so let's not pretend that Stanford isn't playing the same game as major football schools in most areas so why not get into the transfer game as well.  I remember seeing published data a few years back that showed SAT/ACT averages for football recruits and compared them to school averages. Stanford led on both fronts. 1) Stanford had the highest standardized test scores of any Division 1 school for football players 2) Stanford had the biggest deviation in scores from average student compared to football players.  Thus, Stanford has the highest standards for football players but also bends their standards the most to get football players in.  In other words the Alabama football player's scores are closer to the typical Alabama student than a Stanford football player is to a typical Stanford student. Bernard Muir just cut 11 Olympic sports at Stanford to concentrate resources on football and major sports. Let's not pretend we are too different from other Power 5 schools. We have the highest paid coach in the Pac12. We built a new stadium and have shiny facilities and a vast amount of support resources behind the football program.  We are pretty much all in so why pretend that we are holier than thou and not accept transfers.