[Mick]

(4). I also wonder [if in addition to winning (ie being Top20 in Football & Mens Basketball)] ....if [a] Stanford made serious structural changes to model its Athletics & Admissions & NIL to be more in the mold of NotreDame and Duke, if [b] we increased our undergraduate student body size by 2000 undergrads 

Wasn't that the idea behind acquiring the Belmont campus? The admissions rate is already ridiculously low. So what if it crept up 2%?

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I'm not convinced Duke will survive the great re-sorting either, so the lawyer in me is inclined to respond, "objection - admits facts not in evidence." With few exceptions, almost every school in the B1G and SEC is a large and/or public school with a significant alumni and fan base. That is not Stanford and there's no way in our lifetimes to pivot and make it so.

It's very difficult to reconcile "exclusive" with "broad interest." Notre Dame achieves it primarily because of their long history of success and secondarily because of their unique culturual/religious demographics. They're almost like a public school in the broad appeal. I noticed that the highway signs in Michigan have the UMich logo on them...that's some broad appeal.

Stanford is way too exclusive, as it should be. It limits broad appeal, particularly without the winning tradition. Stanford's winning tradition is in stops and starts, which is insufficient to appeal to a broad college football audience.

[Mick]

(4). I also wonder [if in addition to winning (ie being Top20 in Football & Mens Basketball)] ....if [a] Stanford made serious structural changes to model its Athletics & Admissions & NIL to be more in the mold of NotreDame and Duke, if [b] we increased our undergraduate student body size by 2000 undergrads 

Wasn't that the idea behind acquiring the Belmont campus? The admissions rate is already ridiculously low. So what if it crept up 2%?

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I'm not convinced Duke will survive the great re-sorting either, so the lawyer in me is inclined to respond, "objection - admits facts not in evidence." With few exceptions, almost every school in the B1G and SEC is a large and/or public school with a significant alumni and fan base. That is not Stanford and there's no way in our lifetimes to pivot and make it so.

It's very difficult to reconcile "exclusive" with "broad interest." Notre Dame achieves it primarily because of their long history of success and secondarily because of their unique culturual/religious demographics. They're almost like a public school in the broad appeal. I noticed that the highway signs in Michigan have the UMich logo on them...that's some broad appeal.

Stanford is way too exclusive, as it should be. It limits broad appeal, particularly without the winning tradition. Stanford's winning tradition is in stops and starts, which is insufficient to appeal to a broad college football audience.