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The problem with Shawvita wasn't recruiting.  They had top notch recruits but the offensive coaching was abysmal.  I need to see a 180 from vanilla and uninspiring offense from tavita to be convinced.  Hopefully he's learned his ways since the twilight of his tenure with Shaw.

I totally disagree. Recruiting was a massive part of the problem. Shavita wanted to run the ball, but they lost the ability to recruit an OL that could run block. For a while, they still had OLs that could pass block at least a bit, but subsequently even that became impossible. Both Stanford and Kal have suffered from the inability to recruit and coach up competent offensive lines for "many" years at this point. Even when Bryce Love was putting up his gaudy numbers the Stanford OL wasn't good. The statement about BL was that all he needed was a crack and he was gone. His OL generally couldn't produce even that crack, and that is why BL also has lots of < 3 yard runs. From 2017 on Stanford's OL became an increasingly severe problem.

Good luck getting higher rated recruits than Myles Hinton, Walker Little, Foster Sarrell. That Oline coupled with the countless number of high ranked QB recruits (Keller Chryst, KJ Costello, Davis Mills, Tanner McKee) that went limited sucess on the field due to lack of development and effective coaching. Shawvita did nothing with highly ranked recruits at the end. They'll now be expected to do more with less. I hope Tavita proves me wrong but I won't be surprised if he doesn't after 3 years on the job.

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Incase people forget, Tavita was also the QB coach in addition to offensive coordinator for the last 4 years of Shaw's tenure (see coaches roster here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Stanf...tball_team

[norcard10]

The problem with Shawvita wasn't recruiting.  They had top notch recruits but the offensive coaching was abysmal.  I need to see a 180 from vanilla and uninspiring offense from tavita to be convinced.  Hopefully he's learned his ways since the twilight of his tenure with Shaw.

I totally disagree. Recruiting was a massive part of the problem. Shavita wanted to run the ball, but they lost the ability to recruit an OL that could run block. For a while, they still had OLs that could pass block at least a bit, but subsequently even that became impossible. Both Stanford and Kal have suffered from the inability to recruit and coach up competent offensive lines for "many" years at this point. Even when Bryce Love was putting up his gaudy numbers the Stanford OL wasn't good. The statement about BL was that all he needed was a crack and he was gone. His OL generally couldn't produce even that crack, and that is why BL also has lots of < 3 yard runs. From 2017 on Stanford's OL became an increasingly severe problem.

Good luck getting higher rated recruits than Myles Hinton, Walker Little, Foster Sarrell. That Oline coupled with the countless number of high ranked QB recruits (Keller Chryst, KJ Costello, Davis Mills, Tanner McKee) that went limited sucess on the field due to lack of development and effective coaching. Shawvita did nothing with highly ranked recruits at the end. They'll now be expected to do more with less. I hope Tavita proves me wrong but I won't be surprised if he doesn't after 3 years on the job.

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Incase people forget, Tavita was also the QB coach in addition to offensive coordinator for the last 4 years of Shaw's tenure (see coaches roster here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Stanf...tball_team