I see it differently than almost everyone here. My opinion won't be popular on this board.
"not to graduate a ratpack of 'narrow focused professional nerds' who invent 'marginally useful 'gadgets/software,social-media apps' or who will master 'a new 5 card monte crypto trading strategy' that just siphons money from 1 sector of the economy to another."
If this is the way you characterize the goals of Stanford, I disagree 100%. It's as though you strongly dislike Stanford because they are not a football factory. I see a myriad of academic rankings with Stanford in the top ten in the WORLD; in some cases top three. Stanford must be doing a decent job in some aspects as an academic institution.
This is a sports message board. I get it. Football is king. Winning is important.
If you get away from a sports message board I suspect the priorities would be different. I bet if you were to ask students on campus what's keeping them from enjoying Stanford, at least 9 out of 10 students would NOT name the football win/loss record.
My son got his BS and MS back in the days of Andrew Luck. As inconceivable as it will seem to those posting on this thread, he didn't know who Luck was until his senior undergrad year when I talked about Luck. He and most if not all of his friends had no interest in football.
"not to graduate a ratpack of 'narrow focused professional nerds' who invent 'marginally useful 'gadgets/software,social-media apps' or who will master 'a new 5 card monte crypto trading strategy' that just siphons money from 1 sector of the economy to another."
If this is the way you characterize the goals of Stanford, I disagree 100%. It's as though you strongly dislike Stanford because they are not a football factory. I see a myriad of academic rankings with Stanford in the top ten in the WORLD; in some cases top three. Stanford must be doing a decent job in some aspects as an academic institution.
This is a sports message board. I get it. Football is king. Winning is important.
If you get away from a sports message board I suspect the priorities would be different. I bet if you were to ask students on campus what's keeping them from enjoying Stanford, at least 9 out of 10 students would NOT name the football win/loss record.
My son got his BS and MS back in the days of Andrew Luck. As inconceivable as it will seem to those posting on this thread, he didn't know who Luck was until his senior undergrad year when I talked about Luck. He and most if not all of his friends had no interest in football.