[OutsiderFan]

Interview w/ him played before the Stanford bit.  Would have spared us the awfulness of Buddy and Wlat, but would have cost us the fun of Harbaugh and Shaw.  I had completely blanked on the fact they won 9 games last season...AND beat Wisconsin. 

I had to respect Shaw for taking the high road responding to the question about the SEC domination of the rankings at the end of the season.  He said (paraphrased) the SEC had earned it by winning the games they had to win and it was Stanford's and the Pac-12s burden to win the games that count.  No excuses.

Fact #1:  Had Stanford beat Notre Dame (and all others but Washington), Stanford would have played Alabama in BCS CG.
Fact #2: No way the BCS would have allowed a Stanford - Notre Dame rematch if Stanford had beat UW and lost to Notre Dame.

If fact #2 played out, Shaw would have had a lot of room for griping because it would have essentially been the 2011 season all over again (one team losing in OT but getting a championship re-match), with Stanford's only loss being in OT to the #1 team, on the road.

[OutsiderFan]

Interview w/ him played before the Stanford bit.  Would have spared us the awfulness of Buddy and Wlat, but would have cost us the fun of Harbaugh and Shaw.  I had completely blanked on the fact they won 9 games last season...AND beat Wisconsin. 

I had to respect Shaw for taking the high road responding to the question about the SEC domination of the rankings at the end of the season.  He said (paraphrased) the SEC had earned it by winning the games they had to win and it was Stanford's and the Pac-12s burden to win the games that count.  No excuses.

Fact #1:  Had Stanford beat Notre Dame (and all others but Washington), Stanford would have played Alabama in BCS CG.
Fact #2: No way the BCS would have allowed a Stanford - Notre Dame rematch if Stanford had beat UW and lost to Notre Dame.

If fact #2 played out, Shaw would have had a lot of room for griping because it would have essentially been the 2011 season all over again (one team losing in OT but getting a championship re-match), with Stanford's only loss being in OT to the #1 team, on the road.