[Card10Fan]

I agree the players tried their best.  This is a team with an average level of talent.  I don't expect them to play like a top 25 team so I'm not disappointed.

This year Stanford won't win the conference or make the NCAA tournament.  I don't mind if the losses should start to stack up.  My focus is on which player/players improve and emerge as a possible starter for next season.  This is a rebuilding year.

I wouldn’t put a focus on potential starters for next year at this juncture. With the portal, who knows how many will even return to Stanford next year. As has been mentioned by others, there’s no rebuilding for great programs, only reloading. I worry a bad season without the team showing real improvement means our best players choose to leave after the season to go play elsewhere. Although we aren’t the most talented team compared to years past, a sense of urgency and need to win games or at least show competitiveness now is important for the future. 

I bet if you compared rosters with our last two opponents, we have more top 100 recruits on our team than SMU and probably Clemson. Although we don’t have top 10 talent, we are losing to teams with even less talent than us.

[Card10Fan]

I agree the players tried their best.  This is a team with an average level of talent.  I don't expect them to play like a top 25 team so I'm not disappointed.

This year Stanford won't win the conference or make the NCAA tournament.  I don't mind if the losses should start to stack up.  My focus is on which player/players improve and emerge as a possible starter for next season.  This is a rebuilding year.

I wouldn’t put a focus on potential starters for next year at this juncture. With the portal, who knows how many will even return to Stanford next year. As has been mentioned by others, there’s no rebuilding for great programs, only reloading. I worry a bad season without the team showing real improvement means our best players choose to leave after the season to go play elsewhere. Although we aren’t the most talented team compared to years past, a sense of urgency and need to win games or at least show competitiveness now is important for the future. 

I bet if you compared rosters with our last two opponents, we have more top 100 recruits on our team than SMU and probably Clemson. Although we don’t have top 10 talent, we are losing to teams with even less talent than us.