[gailtate]

The calculus is pretty simple; if watching Stanford in person is worth the cost of the tickets, then renew; if watching Stanford has less value than the alternative, then don’t.  In fact, for some of you, seeing the games in person may have negative value (they couldn’t pay me enough to watch the games).  You are deluding yourself, though, if you think your actions will have second order effects in terms of the coaching staff. Probably the only person who could force a change is dead now.

BC

2019 was my final season as an STH after 49 years of ups and downs. Mostly downs but the HarbShaw era, 2009-2015, made it worthwhile. I realized during the Pandemic year, however, that the exasperating decline of The Program + the burden of co-hosting a tailgate where my connections to an ever-growing number of mooches attendees had grown steadily tenuous that it was no longer worth the aggravation. I turned out the chandelier lights after the '19 Big Game and I've never looked back. It was a good run but the party's over.

[gailtate]

The calculus is pretty simple; if watching Stanford in person is worth the cost of the tickets, then renew; if watching Stanford has less value than the alternative, then don’t.  In fact, for some of you, seeing the games in person may have negative value (they couldn’t pay me enough to watch the games).  You are deluding yourself, though, if you think your actions will have second order effects in terms of the coaching staff. Probably the only person who could force a change is dead now.

BC

2019 was my final season as an STH after 49 years of ups and downs. Mostly downs but the HarbShaw era, 2009-2015, made it worthwhile. I realized during the Pandemic year, however, that the exasperating decline of The Program + the burden of co-hosting a tailgate where my connections to an ever-growing number of mooches attendees had grown steadily tenuous that it was no longer worth the aggravation. I turned out the chandelier lights after the '19 Big Game and I've never looked back. It was a good run but the party's over.