[81alum]

I got a little peeved at him last year, too.  I wonder if the close connection between Condi Rice and Stanford WBB has caused him to shy away. 

I thought it might have been politics, given that an association with an elite university in California carries no political benefit in most of the country.  The Senator I once worked for had a Stanford Law degree but never advertised it and did everything possible to keep it out of the public eye, thinking that it would be a political liability in a poor intermountain state. 

But politics cannot possibly explain this Barrack-e-tology (the President's term) miscue, given that he picked the 59ers, which would be even more unpopular than Stanford nearly everywhere to the right of California.  Stanford has a lot of conservative credentials to go with its liberal credentials.

[81alum]

I got a little peeved at him last year, too.  I wonder if the close connection between Condi Rice and Stanford WBB has caused him to shy away. 

I thought it might have been politics, given that an association with an elite university in California carries no political benefit in most of the country.  The Senator I once worked for had a Stanford Law degree but never advertised it and did everything possible to keep it out of the public eye, thinking that it would be a political liability in a poor intermountain state. 

But politics cannot possibly explain this Barrack-e-tology (the President's term) miscue, given that he picked the 59ers, which would be even more unpopular than Stanford nearly everywhere to the right of California.  Stanford has a lot of conservative credentials to go with its liberal credentials.