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the ESPN article has the claim about 30+ candidates.  I have a hard time believing that 30+ candidates either reached out about the job, had Stanford reach out to them, and/or were interviewed 

Why do you find that surprising?  The position has been opened for a long time, so plenty of people may have approached Stanford about the job, particularly because most coaches will have agents reaching out on their behalf.  I mean, wouldn’t you have your agent reach out if you were a college coordinator looking to jump to be a head coach, a college coach at the FCS or G5 level looking to go to an FBS school, or a recently laid off coach (of which there are plenty)?

If Matt Squeri can compile a list of 50 names to post on a message board, surely Andrew Luck and the AD can compile a list of candidates; from that they probably reached to to a dozen or so to test the waters.  Surely a bunch said no, and the result was a manageable list of a handful of names that were seriously considered and hopefully interviewed.

To be honest, since “a pool of more than 30 candidates” is vague to the point of meaninglessness, I am surprised that it wasn’t substantially more than that.  As mentioned, one poster assembled a “pool of 50 candidates” to post on a message board.

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the ESPN article has the claim about 30+ candidates.  I have a hard time believing that 30+ candidates either reached out about the job, had Stanford reach out to them, and/or were interviewed 

Why do you find that surprising?  The position has been opened for a long time, so plenty of people may have approached Stanford about the job, particularly because most coaches will have agents reaching out on their behalf.  I mean, wouldn’t you have your agent reach out if you were a college coordinator looking to jump to be a head coach, a college coach at the FCS or G5 level looking to go to an FBS school, or a recently laid off coach (of which there are plenty)?

If Matt Squeri can compile a list of 50 names to post on a message board, surely Andrew Luck and the AD can compile a list of candidates; from that they probably reached to to a dozen or so to test the waters.  Surely a bunch said no, and the result was a manageable list of a handful of names that were seriously considered and hopefully interviewed.

To be honest, since “a pool of more than 30 candidates” is vague to the point of meaninglessness, I am surprised that it wasn’t substantially more than that.  As mentioned, one poster assembled a “pool of 50 candidates” to post on a message board.

BC