[Hieronymus]

I think you nailed it. Until the Stanford Administration is forced to adapt to the new NIL era by embracing upperclassmen and graduate transfers as all the other successful programs do, I see no hope for our success in revenue sports. 

What did you mean by your choice of words "is forced to adapt"?

BC

What I mean is that Stanford's revenue sports have so far resigned themselves to accept that reloading with talented upperclassmen and grad transfers in the portal is somehow not the Stanford way, thus tying at least one hand behind the coaches' backs. By forced to adapt, I mean that I hope the Stanford Administration will eventually be forced to recognize that their hostility toward the portal is killing their revenue sports and the careers of the coaches who have been forced to do more with less, and the Stanford Administration will be thus forced to adapt their approach to the portal, allowing necessary upperclassmen and graduate reloads, to save Stanford revenue sports performance.

The grad transfer problem looks the least solvable to my eyes. A lot of programs only have a handful of spots, and it doesn’t seem feasible to manufacture a spot for an athlete in many cases. In addition we have smart athletes who are much more likely to graduate in 3 years vs. most college athletes. So it’s a double whammy.

Coaching can be fixed.
NIL can be fixed.
To a degree, admissions maybe still can be eased. Maybe.

But I don’t see a solution for the grad transfer issue, or the you need to be at a certain academic level to make it at Stanford.

[Hieronymus]

I think you nailed it. Until the Stanford Administration is forced to adapt to the new NIL era by embracing upperclassmen and graduate transfers as all the other successful programs do, I see no hope for our success in revenue sports. 

What did you mean by your choice of words "is forced to adapt"?

BC

What I mean is that Stanford's revenue sports have so far resigned themselves to accept that reloading with talented upperclassmen and grad transfers in the portal is somehow not the Stanford way, thus tying at least one hand behind the coaches' backs. By forced to adapt, I mean that I hope the Stanford Administration will eventually be forced to recognize that their hostility toward the portal is killing their revenue sports and the careers of the coaches who have been forced to do more with less, and the Stanford Administration will be thus forced to adapt their approach to the portal, allowing necessary upperclassmen and graduate reloads, to save Stanford revenue sports performance.

The grad transfer problem looks the least solvable to my eyes. A lot of programs only have a handful of spots, and it doesn’t seem feasible to manufacture a spot for an athlete in many cases. In addition we have smart athletes who are much more likely to graduate in 3 years vs. most college athletes. So it’s a double whammy.

Coaching can be fixed.
NIL can be fixed.
To a degree, admissions maybe still can be eased. Maybe.

But I don’t see a solution for the grad transfer issue, or the you need to be at a certain academic level to make it at Stanford.