[gailtate]

I've already reached the same point with MBB that I reached with football after the loss to Washington St. Not worth my time much less my money. I went to see them live against SDSU with free tickets and I watched them on TV once after that. That was enough to see that this team isn't materially different from every other Haase team.

The longer this coach hangs around, the less seriously anyone should take the position that this A.D. is serious about the "prominence" of MBB -- and why I hope to hell his role in replacing Shaw is simply to rubber stamp what knowledgeable people recommend (assuming that the search committee can be knowledgeable). Haase "has" to be one of the poorest gets a Stanford team has ever gotten.

[gailtate]

I've already reached the same point with MBB that I reached with football after the loss to Washington St. Not worth my time much less my money. I went to see them live against SDSU with free tickets and I watched them on TV once after that. That was enough to see that this team isn't materially different from every other Haase team.

The longer this coach hangs around, the less seriously anyone should take the position that this A.D. is serious about the "prominence" of MBB -- and why I hope to hell his role in replacing Shaw is simply to rubber stamp what knowledgeable people recommend (assuming that the search committee can be knowledgeable). Haase "has" to be one of the poorest gets a Stanford team has ever gotten.