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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!).

Don’t know anything about Reynolds beyond his resume.  Which is fairly impressive actually.  I do know replacing Randy Hart was no easy task.  He was terrific.

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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!).

Don’t know anything about Reynolds beyond his resume.  Which is fairly impressive actually.  I do know replacing Randy Hart was no easy task.  He was terrific.