[Bruce Wang]

Absolutely true.  But boy what a difference a decade makes.  We are getting elite class of 2015 players to commit early and are looking strong with respect to several other players in that class.  I have only followed Stanford football for 25 years but the depth of athletes we are getting now is like nothing I have ever seen.

IIRC Walsh II did pull a couple recruiting classes ranked in the Top 10 that benefited the Stanford Women's Golf Volunteer Assistant.  We were not privy to the same amount of information then as now, and the newer vintage Stanford players have exceeded those classes in accomplishment.  I'm sure a lot of that has to do with vastly superior coaching.  Perhaps the potential of the Walsh II recruits were on par or superior to the Harbaugh-Shaw recruits, and they underachieved due to poor coaching, a logical inference considering SWGVA's poor record post-Stanford.

[Bruce Wang]

Absolutely true.  But boy what a difference a decade makes.  We are getting elite class of 2015 players to commit early and are looking strong with respect to several other players in that class.  I have only followed Stanford football for 25 years but the depth of athletes we are getting now is like nothing I have ever seen.

IIRC Walsh II did pull a couple recruiting classes ranked in the Top 10 that benefited the Stanford Women's Golf Volunteer Assistant.  We were not privy to the same amount of information then as now, and the newer vintage Stanford players have exceeded those classes in accomplishment.  I'm sure a lot of that has to do with vastly superior coaching.  Perhaps the potential of the Walsh II recruits were on par or superior to the Harbaugh-Shaw recruits, and they underachieved due to poor coaching, a logical inference considering SWGVA's poor record post-Stanford.