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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

I started watching the press conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiolnX_LPKM

John Donahue - "I want you to know you have the full support of everyone in this room, Stanford athletics, and the entire stanford community".  This was prefaced by "over the past several months, we conducted a very thorough and  high integrity search" [4:10]. No gaslighting here.

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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

I started watching the press conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiolnX_LPKM

John Donahue - "I want you to know you have the full support of everyone in this room, Stanford athletics, and the entire stanford community".  This was prefaced by "over the past several months, we conducted a very thorough and  high integrity search" [4:10]. No gaslighting here.