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I've never understood the "since they can't play a 5th year unless accepted into a Stanford Graduate program" argument. 

Yup, I agree. My thoughts are as follows:
1) Given the decreasing likelihood of five year graduation ...

 

I assume that by "never understood" msqueri really means this is simply incorrect. 

In addition, is the decreasing likelihood of fifth year players really true?

The roster currently lists 8 fifth year players and 1 sixth year. One of those is Fields who "transferred" to Stanford. Still that leaves 8 fifth+ year players on the roster which doesn't seem all that few versus the past. 

Since he wasn't a Stanford undergrad, Fields had to get into a graduate program. He is listed on the roster page as (MS). Nobody else is listed with an indication of a graduate degree, which leads me to think that none are purely grad students. So, the presence of 8 fifth plus year continuing Stanford players makes it pretty clear it is not logistically that difficult to hang around for a fifth year.

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I've never understood the "since they can't play a 5th year unless accepted into a Stanford Graduate program" argument. 

Yup, I agree. My thoughts are as follows:
1) Given the decreasing likelihood of five year graduation ...

 

I assume that by "never understood" msqueri really means this is simply incorrect. 

In addition, is the decreasing likelihood of fifth year players really true?

The roster currently lists 8 fifth year players and 1 sixth year. One of those is Fields who "transferred" to Stanford. Still that leaves 8 fifth+ year players on the roster which doesn't seem all that few versus the past. 

Since he wasn't a Stanford undergrad, Fields had to get into a graduate program. He is listed on the roster page as (MS). Nobody else is listed with an indication of a graduate degree, which leads me to think that none are purely grad students. So, the presence of 8 fifth plus year continuing Stanford players makes it pretty clear it is not logistically that difficult to hang around for a fifth year.