[81alum]

Thx, 81alum.  Always enjoyed chatting with you at games.  The pay site is kinda of like a newspaper or magazine.  You pay a few dollars a month to access their content.  They have a dedicated mod/reporter whose sole job is to create content - interviews, stories, etc. about Stanford and also to develop sources to ferret out info about these sort of things.  He gets paid to do that full time as part of the On3 network of college sites.  If they opened it up free, there would be nobody to create the content.  He does have sources inside the athletic department and does talk to players and parents (various sports) so he can get scoops we cannot.  There are others on there who have their own sources as well.

I do get that, and the ethical need to respect a journalist who works for a living.  But once a newspaper story is published it becomes fair game, the scoop is over, and every other newspaper will run it as soon as they can.  It just seems strange to me that rumors of abuse lurk behind a paywall, that no one including the Stanford administration seem to have picked up on it, and that it leaves us fans really confused.  I have never known Stanford to sleep on such allegations--the university may even have a tendency to over react.  So I am just left with a disquieted feeling that whatever was posted behind the paywall may not be highly reliable, but it is troubling enough to bother me still.

One thing I have worried about ever since Kiki did it is the new model for Stanford recruiting and player development has to be the "3 year model."  Given the extraordinary academic support it is now commonplace for good student-athletes to be able to graduate in three years.  I think we have to assume that all of our starters will routinely leave after 3 years, since they got what they came for--the Stanford degree--and now they can go eat their cake.

The only deeply concerning transfers out, in my mind, are those by players who leave a Stanford degree behind.  And those transfers have been increasing in recent years.  Some of that happened even before Kate, however. Nivar, Van Gytenbeek, etc.  Don't get me wrong--I am devastated by losing Ogden and Agara, but I think they reflect the new reality of the transfer-friendly world.  If you have had success as a player and you already have a Stanford degree, the payday beckons.  It is like graduating and starting your first job.  But it is the loss of Amborn, Somfai, Peterson that trouble me so deeply, and give some weight to the concerns apparently expressed behind the paywall. 

Question:  is Clardy getting her degree?

[81alum]

Thx, 81alum.  Always enjoyed chatting with you at games.  The pay site is kinda of like a newspaper or magazine.  You pay a few dollars a month to access their content.  They have a dedicated mod/reporter whose sole job is to create content - interviews, stories, etc. about Stanford and also to develop sources to ferret out info about these sort of things.  He gets paid to do that full time as part of the On3 network of college sites.  If they opened it up free, there would be nobody to create the content.  He does have sources inside the athletic department and does talk to players and parents (various sports) so he can get scoops we cannot.  There are others on there who have their own sources as well.

I do get that, and the ethical need to respect a journalist who works for a living.  But once a newspaper story is published it becomes fair game, the scoop is over, and every other newspaper will run it as soon as they can.  It just seems strange to me that rumors of abuse lurk behind a paywall, that no one including the Stanford administration seem to have picked up on it, and that it leaves us fans really confused.  I have never known Stanford to sleep on such allegations--the university may even have a tendency to over react.  So I am just left with a disquieted feeling that whatever was posted behind the paywall may not be highly reliable, but it is troubling enough to bother me still.

One thing I have worried about ever since Kiki did it is the new model for Stanford recruiting and player development has to be the "3 year model."  Given the extraordinary academic support it is now commonplace for good student-athletes to be able to graduate in three years.  I think we have to assume that all of our starters will routinely leave after 3 years, since they got what they came for--the Stanford degree--and now they can go eat their cake.

The only deeply concerning transfers out, in my mind, are those by players who leave a Stanford degree behind.  And those transfers have been increasing in recent years.  Some of that happened even before Kate, however. Nivar, Van Gytenbeek, etc.  Don't get me wrong--I am devastated by losing Ogden and Agara, but I think they reflect the new reality of the transfer-friendly world.  If you have had success as a player and you already have a Stanford degree, the payday beckons.  It is like graduating and starting your first job.  But it is the loss of Amborn, Somfai, Peterson that trouble me so deeply, and give some weight to the concerns apparently expressed behind the paywall. 

Question:  is Clardy getting her degree?