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JohnR -- Thanks for the Tyrone/Teevens recruiting reminder; that does provide perspective.  I'm not sure I'd call Teevens more successful than Shaw part 2, but I will retract my statement that Teevens inherited a functional team.

I noted that the coaching staff list has a DL coach and an ILB coach -- so it stands to reason that Stanford has already been operating with "OLB"-type players in the DL room for some time now.  As long as the smaller/faster builds have been doing their jobs well against TE/OT...no argument from me.  I don't think the trend in college football is smaller offensive tackles, however.  Diron Reynolds has yet to show some consistent results, but I'm not ready to put that on him.  Maybe I just respect Oklahoma too much.

Respect for Oklahoma should be the first cause for major skepticism about Diron Reynolds. He coached at Oklahoma for one year and then immediately took a much, much worse job at Stanford. Seems pretty obvious he failed spectacularly (one year!) at Oklahoma.

Bottom line is you should be ready to put a lot of blame on Reynolds. He has always been one of our least visible and enthusiastic recruiters, does not have recruiting success to point to, and has presided over a problematic position group for years. The players he's had who've stood out received significant early career instruction from all-time great position coach Randy Hart, with the sole exception of Thomas Booker, who had a nice career but culminated it in a disappointing year.

A program with any accountability would have moved on from Reynolds. He's probably the most obvious person to fire in the football office (a distinction that certainly has competition!).

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JohnR -- Thanks for the Tyrone/Teevens recruiting reminder; that does provide perspective.  I'm not sure I'd call Teevens more successful than Shaw part 2, but I will retract my statement that Teevens inherited a functional team.

I noted that the coaching staff list has a DL coach and an ILB coach -- so it stands to reason that Stanford has already been operating with "OLB"-type players in the DL room for some time now.  As long as the smaller/faster builds have been doing their jobs well against TE/OT...no argument from me.  I don't think the trend in college football is smaller offensive tackles, however.  Diron Reynolds has yet to show some consistent results, but I'm not ready to put that on him.  Maybe I just respect Oklahoma too much.

Respect for Oklahoma should be the first cause for major skepticism about Diron Reynolds. He coached at Oklahoma for one year and then immediately took a much, much worse job at Stanford. Seems pretty obvious he failed spectacularly (one year!) at Oklahoma.

Bottom line is you should be ready to put a lot of blame on Reynolds. He has always been one of our least visible and enthusiastic recruiters, does not have recruiting success to point to, and has presided over a problematic position group for years. The players he's had who've stood out received significant early career instruction from all-time great position coach Randy Hart, with the sole exception of Thomas Booker, who had a nice career but culminated it in a disappointing year.

A program with any accountability would have moved on from Reynolds. He's probably the most obvious person to fire in the football office (a distinction that certainly has competition!).