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On3 Transfer Rankings (net of incoming and outgoing, only ranks power teams)
2021: N/A
2022: #60
2023: #69 (dead last)
2024: #62
2025: #67
2026: #38
2027: TBD
The portal has been a massive headwind for Stanford as long as it's existed. Not last year, thanks to very good retention. Bar none the biggest - and I'm sad to say probably only, if we're being clear-eyed - success of the Luck-Pritchard era. What we do in this dimension in the weeks following the season is the most important thing facing the program. We have no prayer next year without massive transfer infusion in both volume and quality.
247 Transfer Rankings (strictly incoming)
2021: N/A
2022: #116
2023: #75
2024: #128
2025: #54
2026: #130
While we did a great job retaining, we did a minimal job adding transfer talent. Even still, arguably the two best players on our team (certainly two of the ten best, but I think that's underselling them), Davis Warren and Nico Brown, were part of this haul. Even when we bring in transfers at the extreme low end of college football, they're still quite disproportionately among our best players (see also CJ Williams, Clay Patterson, Niki Prongos, Gaethan Bernadel, Jay Green, Jahsiah Galvan, etc.). Why is obvious - selecting people who have established themselves in college is far easier than projecting 16 year olds. This program has no chance at all without 15+ transfers, mostly highly paid, every year. Need to get used to and accommodate in terms of university politics and admissions processes the kind of roster turnover and agility that will require. Non-negotiable or this is a fool's errand.
(My response - in the wrong place ). Agree completely on the 15+ transfers. That’s the reality of today’s college football. Either join in and play – or drop football. There is no in between. What they’re doing now is unfair to the players, the coaches and the fans.
Flying across country to get destroyed by an average team. Why should anybody want to do that?
You could combine the greatest coaches of all time and put them at the helm and there would be minimal improvement. Maybe Wake Forest only beats them 42-21.
Because the deficit in athleticism is extreme.
The 40 year decision is irrelevant at this point. There is no such thing as a student athlete. So, you either join the game or you quit. Joining the game means loosening your standards academically for transfers and paying them big bucks.
On3 Transfer Rankings (net of incoming and outgoing, only ranks power teams)
2021: N/A
2022: #60
2023: #69 (dead last)
2024: #62
2025: #67
2026: #38
2027: TBD
The portal has been a massive headwind for Stanford as long as it's existed. Not last year, thanks to very good retention. Bar none the biggest - and I'm sad to say probably only, if we're being clear-eyed - success of the Luck-Pritchard era. What we do in this dimension in the weeks following the season is the most important thing facing the program. We have no prayer next year without massive transfer infusion in both volume and quality.
247 Transfer Rankings (strictly incoming)
2021: N/A
2022: #116
2023: #75
2024: #128
2025: #54
2026: #130
While we did a great job retaining, we did a minimal job adding transfer talent. Even still, arguably the two best players on our team (certainly two of the ten best, but I think that's underselling them), Davis Warren and Nico Brown, were part of this haul. Even when we bring in transfers at the extreme low end of college football, they're still quite disproportionately among our best players (see also CJ Williams, Clay Patterson, Niki Prongos, Gaethan Bernadel, Jay Green, Jahsiah Galvan, etc.). Why is obvious - selecting people who have established themselves in college is far easier than projecting 16 year olds. This program has no chance at all without 15+ transfers, mostly highly paid, every year. Need to get used to and accommodate in terms of university politics and admissions processes the kind of roster turnover and agility that will require. Non-negotiable or this is a fool's errand.
(My response - in the wrong place ). Agree completely on the 15+ transfers. That’s the reality of today’s college football. Either join in and play – or drop football. There is no in between. What they’re doing now is unfair to the players, the coaches and the fans.
Flying across country to get destroyed by an average team. Why should anybody want to do that?
You could combine the greatest coaches of all time and put them at the helm and there would be minimal improvement. Maybe Wake Forest only beats them 42-21.
Because the deficit in athleticism is extreme.
The 40 year decision is irrelevant at this point. There is no such thing as a student athlete. So, you either join the game or you quit. Joining the game means loosening your standards academically for transfers and paying them big bucks.