[81alum]

One thing Petros said last night stood out to me: that UO is loaded with transfers, reminiscent of USC. This seems to be a key trend. As long as Stanford is not in the transfer game and takes admissions seriously, it will be greatly out-talented and have much slower team speed than USC, UO, and UCLA, perhaps also Utah. Or do people here believe that the right new coach could make us competitive again?

Yes, Oregon's football team had 21 transfers, USC's had 19.  Stanford probably had about 25 transfer into the entire university.

The transfer pool now makes it less necessary that a coach be a great recruiter or developer of talent, unless by "recruiting" you mean convincing a player who has been recruited and developed by someone else to come to your team instead.

[81alum]

One thing Petros said last night stood out to me: that UO is loaded with transfers, reminiscent of USC. This seems to be a key trend. As long as Stanford is not in the transfer game and takes admissions seriously, it will be greatly out-talented and have much slower team speed than USC, UO, and UCLA, perhaps also Utah. Or do people here believe that the right new coach could make us competitive again?

Yes, Oregon's football team had 21 transfers, USC's had 19.  Stanford probably had about 25 transfer into the entire university.

The transfer pool now makes it less necessary that a coach be a great recruiter or developer of talent, unless by "recruiting" you mean convincing a player who has been recruited and developed by someone else to come to your team instead.