(05-04-2023, 03:00 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Is this a true or a hyperbolic statement?
Stanford Football at this moment in time has the gravitas of the Oakland A’s in MLB.
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(05-04-2023, 04:10 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote: To say that most of us are going into the football season with low expectations might be an overstatement.
If we can beat Hawaii and Sac State, win a couple of conference games (not sure against whom) and at least be somewhat competitive against the conference heavyweights I think the season will be considered a success.
Supposedly Elijah Brown, one of the top QB's in the 2024 class is interested in Stanford. Maybe he will be the Andrew Luck that leads us out of the wilderness.
Unfortunately I agree with this, but will be watching intently for signs of life: competitiveness, culture change, and S&C especially. This ground-up rebuild is gonna take a couple years minimum so my expectations in the W-L column are low.
A great metric posited by msqueri for competitiveness was "number of games in which we play like a top 25 team." These don't have to be wins; close losses against good teams (e.g. losing by 2 to what turned out to be a very good Oregon State last year) count, while closer wins against bad teams (e.g. only beating a bad ASU by 1 last year) clearly don't.
Shaw's most recent season had a pathetic 2, and Taylor is inheriting a significantly less talented team thanks to nearly all the starters leaving. If he can take this lack of talent and produce a few top-25-competitive games in year one, I consider it a very good sign we have something here. (FWIW, Harbaugh's first year with a similarly untalented team produced 4 such games...which happened to be the 4 wins in 4-8.)
And yes, Brown is interested.