[Mick]

To All: Remember if we become Dartmouth, BowdoinColllege, and Cornell, these following things/trends will eventually (over the downward spiral) be gone =

-A- Being high level in OlympicSports
-B- Having as many other Varsity Sports
-C- And therefore being a place where Top Flight Athletes (eg Andrew Luck, Christian McCaffery, KateStarbird, RichardSherman, BrevinKnight, BrookLopez, Katie Ledecky, etc ) ..would even consider wanting to come to Stanford.

With respect, I wonder about that. 

To your second point, Dartmouth has 34 varsity sports. Cornell has 36, Bowdoin has 33; and Harvard has 40, Princeton has 36. I don't think that will change if Stanford rejects NIL/portal and rightsizes football.

To your first and third points...Yale and Harvard are historically in the top 10 for most Olympic medals by college, Princeton and Cornell are in the Top 20, Dartmouth & Columbia are in the Top 35. That said, I don't think it's a coincidence that the top four universities by medal count are in California (USC, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley), LBSU and Irvine are in the top 40, and other CA-based universities have won medals (SJSU, SCU, UC-SB, SDSU, CSU-Northridge, UC-Davis, Pomona, even Saddleback). CalTech, of all universities have alumni that have medaled in long jump, javelin, 1500m, 400m and pole vault. I think Olympians like the year-round training, the natural beauty, and the overall appeal of California. Stanford embodies that.

If Stanford rightsizes football...and I think the odds are strong once the ACC contract is complete...Stanford still has a unique overall offering for smart, high-level Olympian high school grads. Whether Stanford football is FCS or FBS shouldn't impact the overall program, and I think very smart, very high-level athletes will still want to matriculate at Stanford.

[Mick]

To All: Remember if we become Dartmouth, BowdoinColllege, and Cornell, these following things/trends will eventually (over the downward spiral) be gone =

-A- Being high level in OlympicSports
-B- Having as many other Varsity Sports
-C- And therefore being a place where Top Flight Athletes (eg Andrew Luck, Christian McCaffery, KateStarbird, RichardSherman, BrevinKnight, BrookLopez, Katie Ledecky, etc ) ..would even consider wanting to come to Stanford.

With respect, I wonder about that. 

To your second point, Dartmouth has 34 varsity sports. Cornell has 36, Bowdoin has 33; and Harvard has 40, Princeton has 36. I don't think that will change if Stanford rejects NIL/portal and rightsizes football.

To your first and third points...Yale and Harvard are historically in the top 10 for most Olympic medals by college, Princeton and Cornell are in the Top 20, Dartmouth & Columbia are in the Top 35. That said, I don't think it's a coincidence that the top four universities by medal count are in California (USC, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley), LBSU and Irvine are in the top 40, and other CA-based universities have won medals (SJSU, SCU, UC-SB, SDSU, CSU-Northridge, UC-Davis, Pomona, even Saddleback). CalTech, of all universities have alumni that have medaled in long jump, javelin, 1500m, 400m and pole vault. I think Olympians like the year-round training, the natural beauty, and the overall appeal of California. Stanford embodies that.

If Stanford rightsizes football...and I think the odds are strong once the ACC contract is complete...Stanford still has a unique overall offering for smart, high-level Olympian high school grads. Whether Stanford football is FCS or FBS shouldn't impact the overall program, and I think very smart, very high-level athletes will still want to matriculate at Stanford.