[JohnR34231]

[quote author=NYCCardinalFan link=topic=7902.msg65857#msg65857 date=1376709314]
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.
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I know this is probably heresy on this board, but I do give SWGVA a few props for, in his first two years as a head coach, taking a team that had  two losing seasons in a row to consecutive bowl games. JH probably didn't inherit the same amount of talent, but it took him three years to get us to a bowl game. SWGVA did a pretty decent coaching job at Stanford while he was here, at least IMHO. Why he fell flat on his face subsequently, I'm not really sure.

[JohnR34231]

[quote author=NYCCardinalFan link=topic=7902.msg65857#msg65857 date=1376709314]
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.
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I know this is probably heresy on this board, but I do give SWGVA a few props for, in his first two years as a head coach, taking a team that had  two losing seasons in a row to consecutive bowl games. JH probably didn't inherit the same amount of talent, but it took him three years to get us to a bowl game. SWGVA did a pretty decent coaching job at Stanford while he was here, at least IMHO. Why he fell flat on his face subsequently, I'm not really sure.