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That's a shame. Hopefully they keep Okorie (although if he wants to resurrect a certain team in Atlanta....) and Smith is better than just another NIT coach when all is said and done. I'll latch onto the Hoos for a run and maybe Queens College. (Can't bring myself to care about the Not In Tournament tournament.)

Someone said that this might be the first time Stanford wasn't in a bowl game, M or W NCAA Tournament, or College World Series since the '70s. Hard to prove a negative, but I find that hard to believe. 

If we are going to destroy the world with data centers, might as well use them. The list since 1970 is neither long nor short. (Took Copilot some time and Python - so much cross referencing and it had a hard time deciding what a 'year' is since academic years cover two distinct calendar years. Better than me doing it, anyway.)

1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 2019, 2024

So five times since the 70s or 4 times if you count decades one to ten instead of zero to nine.

But if the larger point is that Stanford sports ain't what they used to be; it seems so. Stanford was crushing it from 1986 through 2018. That isn't a surprise given WBB dominance, and long stretches of strong performances in football, MBB, and baseball. The quad years (all 4 of the power sports reaching post season) are 1996, 1999, and 2001. That's the sum total. Alright, it has been a while.

It was I, jacket3ree. Instead of College World Series, I meant college baseball playoffs, which would be more in line with football making a bowl game or basketball making the NCAA tournament. Thanks for catching that. Let me offer my revisions.

The women's basketball team made the playoffs in 1977-78, 78-79 and 79-80--only it was the AIAW tournament, as the NCAA didn't start sponsoring women's basketball until 1981-82 (!). Stanford baseball had an eight-year run of making the playoffs starting in spring 1981. So that takes care of the 1980-1981, 82-83 and 84-85 years. I think that we can put an asterisk next to 2019-20 since both basketball tournaments were canceled but the women were obviously going to be in it. So last year was the first time since 1976-77, I think, that Stanford did not have at least one of the following:
* a bowl game for football
* post-season tournament for baseball
* the best available post-season tournament for men's or women's basketball

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the sports most impacted by NIL and the portal are the ones that are struggling the most, sometimes in a historical way.  You can make arguments that women’s basketball should have performed better than it did or that men’s basketball over performed expectations, or that football has had a long-running downtrend… but at the end of the day, all four sports have been on a multi-year downtrend compared to their historical averages and I don’t think it is a coincidence.  The current situation disadvantages Stanford revenue sports.

BC

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That's a shame. Hopefully they keep Okorie (although if he wants to resurrect a certain team in Atlanta....) and Smith is better than just another NIT coach when all is said and done. I'll latch onto the Hoos for a run and maybe Queens College. (Can't bring myself to care about the Not In Tournament tournament.)

Someone said that this might be the first time Stanford wasn't in a bowl game, M or W NCAA Tournament, or College World Series since the '70s. Hard to prove a negative, but I find that hard to believe. 

If we are going to destroy the world with data centers, might as well use them. The list since 1970 is neither long nor short. (Took Copilot some time and Python - so much cross referencing and it had a hard time deciding what a 'year' is since academic years cover two distinct calendar years. Better than me doing it, anyway.)

1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 2019, 2024

So five times since the 70s or 4 times if you count decades one to ten instead of zero to nine.

But if the larger point is that Stanford sports ain't what they used to be; it seems so. Stanford was crushing it from 1986 through 2018. That isn't a surprise given WBB dominance, and long stretches of strong performances in football, MBB, and baseball. The quad years (all 4 of the power sports reaching post season) are 1996, 1999, and 2001. That's the sum total. Alright, it has been a while.

It was I, jacket3ree. Instead of College World Series, I meant college baseball playoffs, which would be more in line with football making a bowl game or basketball making the NCAA tournament. Thanks for catching that. Let me offer my revisions.

The women's basketball team made the playoffs in 1977-78, 78-79 and 79-80--only it was the AIAW tournament, as the NCAA didn't start sponsoring women's basketball until 1981-82 (!). Stanford baseball had an eight-year run of making the playoffs starting in spring 1981. So that takes care of the 1980-1981, 82-83 and 84-85 years. I think that we can put an asterisk next to 2019-20 since both basketball tournaments were canceled but the women were obviously going to be in it. So last year was the first time since 1976-77, I think, that Stanford did not have at least one of the following:
* a bowl game for football
* post-season tournament for baseball
* the best available post-season tournament for men's or women's basketball

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the sports most impacted by NIL and the portal are the ones that are struggling the most, sometimes in a historical way.  You can make arguments that women’s basketball should have performed better than it did or that men’s basketball over performed expectations, or that football has had a long-running downtrend… but at the end of the day, all four sports have been on a multi-year downtrend compared to their historical averages and I don’t think it is a coincidence.  The current situation disadvantages Stanford revenue sports.

BC