[jayasena]

But aside from that, I'm much more interested in seeing Stanford football do something remarkable than watching them beat mediocre teams. I would rather schedule Alabama and risk a bad loss, but have a chance to make a national statement, than schedule Duke and know the outcome of the game ahead of time. Not that Northern Indiana Parochial College is on the level of the Duke, but beating them starts to lose meaning when the Naval Academy and Tulsa are doing it too.

I know we've had a couple of great seasons and we all have high hopes for continued success. But we still haven't seen how we do without AL and Shaw isn't proven until he wins consistently with his own coaching and recruits. A skeptic may also point out that our only even-mildly-impressive OOC win even in those wildly successful (by our standards) seasons was over an over-rated Virginia Tech team. We didn't even manage to beat Ok State, much less Alabama.

Perhaps we should wait a bit before we start acting like we are a perennial title contender. (Yes, yes, I know what online football message boards are for.)

[jayasena]

But aside from that, I'm much more interested in seeing Stanford football do something remarkable than watching them beat mediocre teams. I would rather schedule Alabama and risk a bad loss, but have a chance to make a national statement, than schedule Duke and know the outcome of the game ahead of time. Not that Northern Indiana Parochial College is on the level of the Duke, but beating them starts to lose meaning when the Naval Academy and Tulsa are doing it too.

I know we've had a couple of great seasons and we all have high hopes for continued success. But we still haven't seen how we do without AL and Shaw isn't proven until he wins consistently with his own coaching and recruits. A skeptic may also point out that our only even-mildly-impressive OOC win even in those wildly successful (by our standards) seasons was over an over-rated Virginia Tech team. We didn't even manage to beat Ok State, much less Alabama.

Perhaps we should wait a bit before we start acting like we are a perennial title contender. (Yes, yes, I know what online football message boards are for.)