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That actually could be part of it. He strikes me as exactly the type who would eat up Shaw’s schtick and fall for propaganda that Shaw was the best we could do/foiled by events outside of his control/unfairly scapegoated. Brando in the USC game could have been thinking Stanford was getting its rightful comeuppance whereas Brando in the Washington game may have moved past Shaw and/or remembered he likes Stanford and Stanford men. Also possible I was misreading him and what I interpreted as disdain was really more over-exuberance for USC.

[msqueri]

That actually could be part of it. He strikes me as exactly the type who would eat up Shaw’s schtick and fall for propaganda that Shaw was the best we could do/foiled by events outside of his control/unfairly scapegoated. Brando in the USC game could have been thinking Stanford was getting its rightful comeuppance whereas Brando in the Washington game may have moved past Shaw and/or remembered he likes Stanford and Stanford men. Also possible I was misreading him and what I interpreted as disdain was really more over-exuberance for USC.