[Farm93]

Sigh. 

Muir must go. And it's WVB. The AD can't dismiss it like MVB or wrestling. Or FB and MBB.

Ironically, the more sports that are struggling the less likely it is the ADs fault.

If only there was something bigger that might be altering practices, team bonding, campus culture, recruiting and air travel.   Hmmm, maybe there has been something like that over the last 20 months that could have negatively impacted Stanford.

It will come to me....
Muir...No
Scott...No
Tessier-Lavigne...No

COVID-19....Ding, ding, ding.

For those that have not been on campus during COVID-19, the campus environment right now is just not normal.   Stanford, in the best of times is challenging and stressful, especially for student-athletes.  Add the stress of COVID, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 protocols and the campus is honestly going to impact the precious balance needed for Stanford student-athletes to win at the highest level.

That's why I was very confident no coach would be fired for a lack of success in 2020-2021, and it looks like that will be true here in 2021-2022.

For those that doubt it could be that bad, just take a day off from your job and walk around campus on an average weekday.   Then you will see and understand that Stanford's athletics teams are just trying to maintain some sense of normalcy, but realistically it will take a vastly superior roster of talent (men's gymnastics) or a very experienced hall of fame level coach (women's hoops) to win a national title at Stanford during COVID.

As long as a coach, or administrator, is trying to lead their team/organization they probably will be on The Farm in the 2022-2023 academic year.

And with that, please return to demanding Muir, Shaw and others be fired, or are overpaid, or could easily be replaced by many others.

[Farm93]

Sigh. 

Muir must go. And it's WVB. The AD can't dismiss it like MVB or wrestling. Or FB and MBB.

Ironically, the more sports that are struggling the less likely it is the ADs fault.

If only there was something bigger that might be altering practices, team bonding, campus culture, recruiting and air travel.   Hmmm, maybe there has been something like that over the last 20 months that could have negatively impacted Stanford.

It will come to me....
Muir...No
Scott...No
Tessier-Lavigne...No

COVID-19....Ding, ding, ding.

For those that have not been on campus during COVID-19, the campus environment right now is just not normal.   Stanford, in the best of times is challenging and stressful, especially for student-athletes.  Add the stress of COVID, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 protocols and the campus is honestly going to impact the precious balance needed for Stanford student-athletes to win at the highest level.

That's why I was very confident no coach would be fired for a lack of success in 2020-2021, and it looks like that will be true here in 2021-2022.

For those that doubt it could be that bad, just take a day off from your job and walk around campus on an average weekday.   Then you will see and understand that Stanford's athletics teams are just trying to maintain some sense of normalcy, but realistically it will take a vastly superior roster of talent (men's gymnastics) or a very experienced hall of fame level coach (women's hoops) to win a national title at Stanford during COVID.

As long as a coach, or administrator, is trying to lead their team/organization they probably will be on The Farm in the 2022-2023 academic year.

And with that, please return to demanding Muir, Shaw and others be fired, or are overpaid, or could easily be replaced by many others.