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There's a straight line between (a) the generic, vanilla S&C program Stanford evidently runs today in the absence of Turley and (b) the decline of the larger football program. Anybody who will not (or cannot) see this is a Mr. Magoo.

As I recall, there were a great number of injuries in Turley's next-to-last and last years as well. I know that doesn't resonate with your view but that's what I remember.

Would also note that Turley was bumped up from the S&C director for the football team to the S&C director for the whole athletics department.  I don't know how much he was still involved with the football team (I think a fair bit, despite his title), but it is fair to ask if the change made a difference.

Or, this is just one of those things where correlation is not causation.  Injuries are stochastic events, though I think conventional wisdom is that they are more likely to occur during periods of fatigue when form suffers, which can be a result of inferior conditioning.

BC

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There's a straight line between (a) the generic, vanilla S&C program Stanford evidently runs today in the absence of Turley and (b) the decline of the larger football program. Anybody who will not (or cannot) see this is a Mr. Magoo.

As I recall, there were a great number of injuries in Turley's next-to-last and last years as well. I know that doesn't resonate with your view but that's what I remember.

Would also note that Turley was bumped up from the S&C director for the football team to the S&C director for the whole athletics department.  I don't know how much he was still involved with the football team (I think a fair bit, despite his title), but it is fair to ask if the change made a difference.

Or, this is just one of those things where correlation is not causation.  Injuries are stochastic events, though I think conventional wisdom is that they are more likely to occur during periods of fatigue when form suffers, which can be a result of inferior conditioning.

BC