12-02-2025, 01:48 PM
The national search to find Tavita Pritchard. Oh hey, he's in our nation's capital. National search.
Why is Condoleezza Rice involved at all?
Anyway, we certainly know who to blame or hopefully praise.
I'm not mad it wasn't a "big name". I don't know if Paul Wiggin was considered a "big name" when he was hired (he had been an NFL head coach for two not great years following Hank Stram), but of all Stanford's big name hires in my memory - Wiggin, Walsh redux, Harris - eventually flopped. Little name hires -- Elway, Teevens, Taylor -- flopped too. The success stories -- Green, Willingham, Harbaugh, Shaw -- weren't necessarily can't miss hires. Green was from the Walsh tree when Walsh was still a Niner god and really wanted to show what he could do to turn a culture around; Willingham was from the Walsh through Green tree and maybe a Tavita without the historic Shaw baggage; Harbaugh was a prescient AD making one of Stanford's best hires ever; and Shaw sort of fell into it and did great before he was terrible.
Pritchard and Luck need to have a heart to heart with Shaw off record and I hope Shaw is willing to do that. Beyond NIL and whatnot, what the hell happened?
Why is Condoleezza Rice involved at all?
Anyway, we certainly know who to blame or hopefully praise.
I'm not mad it wasn't a "big name". I don't know if Paul Wiggin was considered a "big name" when he was hired (he had been an NFL head coach for two not great years following Hank Stram), but of all Stanford's big name hires in my memory - Wiggin, Walsh redux, Harris - eventually flopped. Little name hires -- Elway, Teevens, Taylor -- flopped too. The success stories -- Green, Willingham, Harbaugh, Shaw -- weren't necessarily can't miss hires. Green was from the Walsh tree when Walsh was still a Niner god and really wanted to show what he could do to turn a culture around; Willingham was from the Walsh through Green tree and maybe a Tavita without the historic Shaw baggage; Harbaugh was a prescient AD making one of Stanford's best hires ever; and Shaw sort of fell into it and did great before he was terrible.
Pritchard and Luck need to have a heart to heart with Shaw off record and I hope Shaw is willing to do that. Beyond NIL and whatnot, what the hell happened?