[TheFarm07]

The bottom line is that Stanford should not accept mediocrity in its WBB program.

I know I sound like a broken record here, but may I ask what you are going to do about it?  Are you going to fund the women’s basketball program at a level to guarantee success? If you don’t have a gazillion dollars to do that you will… what… make mean posts on pseudonymous message boards?  hold your breath until they fire Kate Paye?

This is a message board so that vein of posts is par for the course. But I try to remember that at the end of the day, we are talking about 20 year olds throwing spheres through hoops in a *game* with arbitrary rules that was invented by a PE teacher to keep students busy during the winter. The consequences of Stanford not going to the tournament are mainly that I will have a bit more time in March from not watching the game (time that I will likely waste on this board being insufferable by admonishing people that it is silly to act all demanding about firing a coach for not making the tournament and that your only real choices are to donate gobs of money to ensure the outcome you want or maybe be a bit more copacetic about what at the end of the day is merely a game).

BC

I think, like the comments of most sports fans, martyup's statement was more rhetorical in nature rather than a call for action from us on the Cardboard. Even when fans yell in their home stadiums to fire their own coach, I would venture that most don't believe beyond showing public sentiment and as a byproduct, public pressure, that they personally can do anything about their team's coaching situation

Sports fans are passionate and when they are frustrated about the teams, programs and franchises they love, they need an outlet and venting is often the way to let out their frustration.

I think we all understand that these posts won't affect Kate Paye's job security but we are using it as a way to show our dismay at the downfall of a once proud program whose tournament qualifications were never a question for more than three decades. I miss, as I am sure everyone here does as well, reading articles mentioning Stanford as a contender, if not one of the favorites for a deep tournament run.

NIL is something outside of Paye's control but as noted here, there are certainly a lot of other significant factors that do fall under her purview and it feels like we are less than the sum of our parts.

[TheFarm07]

The bottom line is that Stanford should not accept mediocrity in its WBB program.

I know I sound like a broken record here, but may I ask what you are going to do about it?  Are you going to fund the women’s basketball program at a level to guarantee success? If you don’t have a gazillion dollars to do that you will… what… make mean posts on pseudonymous message boards?  hold your breath until they fire Kate Paye?

This is a message board so that vein of posts is par for the course. But I try to remember that at the end of the day, we are talking about 20 year olds throwing spheres through hoops in a *game* with arbitrary rules that was invented by a PE teacher to keep students busy during the winter. The consequences of Stanford not going to the tournament are mainly that I will have a bit more time in March from not watching the game (time that I will likely waste on this board being insufferable by admonishing people that it is silly to act all demanding about firing a coach for not making the tournament and that your only real choices are to donate gobs of money to ensure the outcome you want or maybe be a bit more copacetic about what at the end of the day is merely a game).

BC

I think, like the comments of most sports fans, martyup's statement was more rhetorical in nature rather than a call for action from us on the Cardboard. Even when fans yell in their home stadiums to fire their own coach, I would venture that most don't believe beyond showing public sentiment and as a byproduct, public pressure, that they personally can do anything about their team's coaching situation

Sports fans are passionate and when they are frustrated about the teams, programs and franchises they love, they need an outlet and venting is often the way to let out their frustration.

I think we all understand that these posts won't affect Kate Paye's job security but we are using it as a way to show our dismay at the downfall of a once proud program whose tournament qualifications were never a question for more than three decades. I miss, as I am sure everyone here does as well, reading articles mentioning Stanford as a contender, if not one of the favorites for a deep tournament run.

NIL is something outside of Paye's control but as noted here, there are certainly a lot of other significant factors that do fall under her purview and it feels like we are less than the sum of our parts.