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Reasons to fire Muir:

Lost the Director's Cup.
Agreed to pay Shaw a ridiculous salary. Stanford shouldn't pay anyone that kind of money, especially the football coach.
Cut 11 sports, then had to humiliate himself and the AD and backtrack. 
Apparently serves at the pleasure of the football coach and not vice versa.

You forgot our permanently bad basketball team and the embarrassing admissions scandal (which would have been the really easy excuse to fire him).

I'm honestly surprised Muir survived the admissions scandal - oversight and compliance should be core responsibilities for his office.  And yeah, I don't donate as much to Stanford these days because clearly if there's enough money to pay the football coach what he's getting, they don't need more of mine.  Would rather give to K-12 public education and other more-in-need schools where our family has an affiliation.

If Shaw wants to be the Tara Vanderveer of Stanford Football - a goal he has stated in the past - he has to show Tara's ability to reinvent one's system and adapt successfully.  Maybe in football it's hard to do that without a losing season or two (or three...).  But then again, if he's lost the fire (and I am VERY worried about what we saw in that presser...), we probably need to plan the winningest-coach-ever sendoff party and then set a course for the future.

Good points. During the Buddy/Walt Wandering In The Wilderness Years, I had my doubts about Hennessy's support for football (knew that Leland was a checked-out lame duck). That is, until Hennessy hired Bowlsby who hired Harbaugh. I dunno what to think about MTL but for some reason I believe the guy has enough street-smarts to be listening to the right people, right now, about the acrid aroma emitting from the Athletic Department's PR optics and specifically FB and to a maybe lesser extent  MBB. I could be dead wrong, of course, and this president could be head-first in the sand up to his waist. Still, we need a sea change. Now. #MuirAndShawMustGo

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Reasons to fire Muir:

Lost the Director's Cup.
Agreed to pay Shaw a ridiculous salary. Stanford shouldn't pay anyone that kind of money, especially the football coach.
Cut 11 sports, then had to humiliate himself and the AD and backtrack. 
Apparently serves at the pleasure of the football coach and not vice versa.

You forgot our permanently bad basketball team and the embarrassing admissions scandal (which would have been the really easy excuse to fire him).

I'm honestly surprised Muir survived the admissions scandal - oversight and compliance should be core responsibilities for his office.  And yeah, I don't donate as much to Stanford these days because clearly if there's enough money to pay the football coach what he's getting, they don't need more of mine.  Would rather give to K-12 public education and other more-in-need schools where our family has an affiliation.

If Shaw wants to be the Tara Vanderveer of Stanford Football - a goal he has stated in the past - he has to show Tara's ability to reinvent one's system and adapt successfully.  Maybe in football it's hard to do that without a losing season or two (or three...).  But then again, if he's lost the fire (and I am VERY worried about what we saw in that presser...), we probably need to plan the winningest-coach-ever sendoff party and then set a course for the future.

Good points. During the Buddy/Walt Wandering In The Wilderness Years, I had my doubts about Hennessy's support for football (knew that Leland was a checked-out lame duck). That is, until Hennessy hired Bowlsby who hired Harbaugh. I dunno what to think about MTL but for some reason I believe the guy has enough street-smarts to be listening to the right people, right now, about the acrid aroma emitting from the Athletic Department's PR optics and specifically FB and to a maybe lesser extent  MBB. I could be dead wrong, of course, and this president could be head-first in the sand up to his waist. Still, we need a sea change. Now. #MuirAndShawMustGo