[gailtate]

Whenever I need a good (albeit cynical) belly laugh, I read the cheerleaders on his site. You know who you are. They're almost  as entertaining as the know-it-all pontificators and apologists.

It doesn't seem to me that there are many cheerleaders and apologists on this site anymore.
There are:
1. People who are hopeful that the program can be turned around.
2. Cynics who say it can't.
1 still outnumbers 2, but the gap is closing.

And the biggest concern of all is:

3. Stanford football fans who sometime in the past five to seven years just stopped paying attention (the silent majority, I'm afraid)

Spot on. Big-time football has always been a fragile enterprise on The Farm. Now it just might have extinguished itself forever. Hope not, but the evidence is no bueno.

[gailtate]

Whenever I need a good (albeit cynical) belly laugh, I read the cheerleaders on his site. You know who you are. They're almost  as entertaining as the know-it-all pontificators and apologists.

It doesn't seem to me that there are many cheerleaders and apologists on this site anymore.
There are:
1. People who are hopeful that the program can be turned around.
2. Cynics who say it can't.
1 still outnumbers 2, but the gap is closing.

And the biggest concern of all is:

3. Stanford football fans who sometime in the past five to seven years just stopped paying attention (the silent majority, I'm afraid)

Spot on. Big-time football has always been a fragile enterprise on The Farm. Now it just might have extinguished itself forever. Hope not, but the evidence is no bueno.