[Mick]

two articles in their most recent magazine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8bCXVC...zteCH/view

That is a GREAT read!  Deja vu all over again.

But by the end of 1960, his third year, Cactus Jack’s future was.
already in question. That year, he was elected president of the
Football Coaches Association of America, but his own football
program was on the road to disaster: The team, troubled by serious
injuries, lost 10 consecutive games, including a humiliating defeat.
by San Jose State. Curtice had yet to pull off a
winning season. Fan attendance at Stanford
Stadium dropped precipitously. Ultimately, his
teams went 14–36 over five years, and 5–19 in
conference play.

Some vocal students and alumni, but
especially some sports writers, questioned
Stanford’s willingness to stay among the Big-Time
Football ranks. Perhaps it wasn’t all Curtice’s
fault: Sterling’s reluctance to lower admission
and eligibility standards for prospective top
athletes, the complaint ran, came at a high cost
to football success and “Stanford spirit”—that
highly valuable, intangible asset that tied many
alumni to the campus. Since academics were now
more important than athletics at the university,
they asked, was it time to throw in the towel and
schedule less rigorous competition against teams
more “like us?”

Of course, another big issue was Stanford's unwillingness to offer athletic scholarships. Bill Douglas, the QB who led Washington to the Rose Bowl after the 1963 season said he would have gone to Stanford if they had been willing to give him a scholarship.

Separate sport, but Fred Couples said during a David Feherty interview that he had really wanted to attend Stanford University. The golf coach at the time said he couldn't afford to fly Boom Boom to Stanford, so for want of an airline ticket, Freddy Couples went to U. of Houston.

[Mick]

two articles in their most recent magazine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8bCXVC...zteCH/view

That is a GREAT read!  Deja vu all over again.

But by the end of 1960, his third year, Cactus Jack’s future was.
already in question. That year, he was elected president of the
Football Coaches Association of America, but his own football
program was on the road to disaster: The team, troubled by serious
injuries, lost 10 consecutive games, including a humiliating defeat.
by San Jose State. Curtice had yet to pull off a
winning season. Fan attendance at Stanford
Stadium dropped precipitously. Ultimately, his
teams went 14–36 over five years, and 5–19 in
conference play.

Some vocal students and alumni, but
especially some sports writers, questioned
Stanford’s willingness to stay among the Big-Time
Football ranks. Perhaps it wasn’t all Curtice’s
fault: Sterling’s reluctance to lower admission
and eligibility standards for prospective top
athletes, the complaint ran, came at a high cost
to football success and “Stanford spirit”—that
highly valuable, intangible asset that tied many
alumni to the campus. Since academics were now
more important than athletics at the university,
they asked, was it time to throw in the towel and
schedule less rigorous competition against teams
more “like us?”

Of course, another big issue was Stanford's unwillingness to offer athletic scholarships. Bill Douglas, the QB who led Washington to the Rose Bowl after the 1963 season said he would have gone to Stanford if they had been willing to give him a scholarship.

Separate sport, but Fred Couples said during a David Feherty interview that he had really wanted to attend Stanford University. The golf coach at the time said he couldn't afford to fly Boom Boom to Stanford, so for want of an airline ticket, Freddy Couples went to U. of Houston.