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Goose, your error is twofold. 

First, you are way off on how hard it is to get into Stanford as a football player. It’s possibly closer to 40 percent of elite football players can get in than it is to 4 percent. It’s not “some” preference for football players. It’s a completely different admissions standard that opens up the universe of possible admits dramatically. The football team has let people in with Cs or with test scores that nearly half the country has obtained or reclassifying high school years despite only being a self-professed B+ student. 

Second, you’re acting like SamuelMcF and I are guessing at these characterizations but we’re not. We’ve both followed recruiting very closely over a span of years. At one time I was a recruiting reporter fed inside information on who Stanford was recruiting, who was admissible or not, and why for both. Additionally, the number of composite top 1000 players at a position is not guesswork. At OL in the just-signed 2023 cycle it was 156. In 2022 it was 140. In 2021 it was 149. This data is available going back many years. Similarly, we are not bloviating when we say “dozens.” We have each observed Stanford recruiting dozens of players annually for years. Not all rise to the level of meriting a football scholarship in the staff’s evaluation, but that’s a different screen than the admissibility one. And not all would have been admissible, but by the same token we’re probably not recruiting everybody who would be admissible either. 

Lots of good thoughts in your posts but I think you have some erroneous assumptions about football recruiting at Stanford. Seeing you cite the 4 percent acceptance number was jaw dropping for me. Jonathan Martin, Michael Thomas, Tyler Gaffney, Ben Edwards, Wilfredo Aybar, etc. got into Stanford. Some of our football players would be lucky to get into UC Irvine or UC Santa Barbara.

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Goose, your error is twofold. 

First, you are way off on how hard it is to get into Stanford as a football player. It’s possibly closer to 40 percent of elite football players can get in than it is to 4 percent. It’s not “some” preference for football players. It’s a completely different admissions standard that opens up the universe of possible admits dramatically. The football team has let people in with Cs or with test scores that nearly half the country has obtained or reclassifying high school years despite only being a self-professed B+ student. 

Second, you’re acting like SamuelMcF and I are guessing at these characterizations but we’re not. We’ve both followed recruiting very closely over a span of years. At one time I was a recruiting reporter fed inside information on who Stanford was recruiting, who was admissible or not, and why for both. Additionally, the number of composite top 1000 players at a position is not guesswork. At OL in the just-signed 2023 cycle it was 156. In 2022 it was 140. In 2021 it was 149. This data is available going back many years. Similarly, we are not bloviating when we say “dozens.” We have each observed Stanford recruiting dozens of players annually for years. Not all rise to the level of meriting a football scholarship in the staff’s evaluation, but that’s a different screen than the admissibility one. And not all would have been admissible, but by the same token we’re probably not recruiting everybody who would be admissible either. 

Lots of good thoughts in your posts but I think you have some erroneous assumptions about football recruiting at Stanford. Seeing you cite the 4 percent acceptance number was jaw dropping for me. Jonathan Martin, Michael Thomas, Tyler Gaffney, Ben Edwards, Wilfredo Aybar, etc. got into Stanford. Some of our football players would be lucky to get into UC Irvine or UC Santa Barbara.