11-26-2022, 02:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2022, 02:09 PM by BostonCard.)
"I think that’s wishful thinking. Shaw will use whatever message he thinks will bring in a recruit. But no coach is ever going to intimate that he is not going to be the coach. Harbaugh didn’t make that pitch even when he was negotiating to become head coach at Kansas (or later with the 49ers).
Coaching selects for people who are supremely confident of their abilities. Even if Shaw is let go immediately after the game tonight, he will go to his grave thinking he could have turned Stanford around, if the administration would just give him the chance, and I suspect that is th e pitch he is using on recruits. “Be part of the class that takes us back to the Rose bowl” would be met with derision on these boards, but I would not be at all surprised if that’s what Shaw is saying to recruits, earnestly.
BC
Coaching selects for people who are supremely confident of their abilities. Even if Shaw is let go immediately after the game tonight, he will go to his grave thinking he could have turned Stanford around, if the administration would just give him the chance, and I suspect that is th e pitch he is using on recruits. “Be part of the class that takes us back to the Rose bowl” would be met with derision on these boards, but I would not be at all surprised if that’s what Shaw is saying to recruits, earnestly.
BC