[Jamesy]

Has anyone ever compiled a list of Wilner's Stanford football predictions vs actual results?  For a hometown sportswriter, he "seems" pre-disposed to be negative about Stanford.  I'd be curious if the facts bear that out?

I don't have facts on hand but in an earlier post in this thread it was recalled that Wilner was spot-on in his 2017 prediction(s). One of my favorite writers, Bill Plaschke of the L.A Times  since 1987 and covered USC for many years, was regularly pilloried by the Trojan peanut gallery whenever he dared to criticize or go negative on Mighty Troy. This reflex is of course, endemic among die-hard partisans. Plaschke, BTW, a Times columnist since 1996, has been named national sports columnist of the year eight times by the Associated Press. Of course, irrelevant to the diehards. Probably seemed "predisposed being negative..." by Cardinal&Gold experts. Goes with the territory.

In the last full football season (2019), he way overestimate the football team's performance. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/22/s...avyweight/

To be fair, it's hard to predict the entire OL dying.

2018: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/20/s...d-preview/ 
Wilner overrated us.

2017: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/21/s...e-by-game/
Nailed every game and the ASU prediction was particularly accurate. 

I'll reiterate what I said earlier in the thread. Wilner is not a homer, but he's much more positive about the team in general than many on this board. I do think/hope we'll outperform his 5-7 prediction this year.

[Jamesy]

Has anyone ever compiled a list of Wilner's Stanford football predictions vs actual results?  For a hometown sportswriter, he "seems" pre-disposed to be negative about Stanford.  I'd be curious if the facts bear that out?

I don't have facts on hand but in an earlier post in this thread it was recalled that Wilner was spot-on in his 2017 prediction(s). One of my favorite writers, Bill Plaschke of the L.A Times  since 1987 and covered USC for many years, was regularly pilloried by the Trojan peanut gallery whenever he dared to criticize or go negative on Mighty Troy. This reflex is of course, endemic among die-hard partisans. Plaschke, BTW, a Times columnist since 1996, has been named national sports columnist of the year eight times by the Associated Press. Of course, irrelevant to the diehards. Probably seemed "predisposed being negative..." by Cardinal&Gold experts. Goes with the territory.

In the last full football season (2019), he way overestimate the football team's performance. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/22/s...avyweight/

To be fair, it's hard to predict the entire OL dying.

2018: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/20/s...d-preview/ 
Wilner overrated us.

2017: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/21/s...e-by-game/
Nailed every game and the ASU prediction was particularly accurate. 

I'll reiterate what I said earlier in the thread. Wilner is not a homer, but he's much more positive about the team in general than many on this board. I do think/hope we'll outperform his 5-7 prediction this year.