[msqueri]

There’s still the issue of getting fifth year players to apply for graduate school in order to stay, when they can just use the transfer portal to get into a masters program of their choice elsewhere.

It used to be that fifth year players stayed for a fifth year without getting a graduate degree, but that was before they could get a Stanford degree and a graduate degree elsewhere for free just by putting their name into the portal.

BC

As far as I can tell this is an issue of our own creation. We're a victim of our own 40 year decision/optimizing the academic transactional value of your football talents nonsense. In all of Stanford's history and in college football elsewhere, players have been fine majoring in football for their fifth year. Shaw recruits academic/post-football career first people and then drones on and on about the values of degrees, so no surprise we have players who really want some random masters at another school. If we had people who were at Stanford to play football, or if playing football at Stanford was at all pleasant, this would happen less.

[msqueri]

There’s still the issue of getting fifth year players to apply for graduate school in order to stay, when they can just use the transfer portal to get into a masters program of their choice elsewhere.

It used to be that fifth year players stayed for a fifth year without getting a graduate degree, but that was before they could get a Stanford degree and a graduate degree elsewhere for free just by putting their name into the portal.

BC

As far as I can tell this is an issue of our own creation. We're a victim of our own 40 year decision/optimizing the academic transactional value of your football talents nonsense. In all of Stanford's history and in college football elsewhere, players have been fine majoring in football for their fifth year. Shaw recruits academic/post-football career first people and then drones on and on about the values of degrees, so no surprise we have players who really want some random masters at another school. If we had people who were at Stanford to play football, or if playing football at Stanford was at all pleasant, this would happen less.