Read that here. I took a bit of a different approach with this one as it was overshadowed by Shaw's departure, but I still wanted to make sure I got a recap of the game up.

A new voice has joined the small but vocal chorus opposing UCLA’s move to the Big Ten Conference. Ramogi Huma, a former Bruins linebacker who serves as executive director of the National College Players Assn., sent a letter to the University of California regents on Wednesday asking them to block UCLA’s planned exit from the Pac-12 Conference in August 2024. Huma described the move as a “short-sighted money grab” that would harm college athletes, citing academic, racial and mental health concerns while also contending that athletic director Martin Jarmond would top a tiny group of beneficiaries.
The letter opposing the planned move:

You’re Stanford’s AD.

Read that here.

Read about that here.

Said not returning Wisconsin

So, let’s hope he becomes a bigtime barrier breaker - he can definitely shoot based on what he’s shown thus far

Here he meets with his players for the first time. Interesting.

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Read that here.

Michigan's OC. I just viewed 3 commentators discussing him as candidate. They had him as one of the top 5 possibilities.

FTR, I hope it's not Troy Taylor.

Of fan hood. Who do we like out there. I need some Offensive creativity. Tough D. Kids who play with a chip on their shoulder and a passing respect for academics.

Read that here.

Somehow I recall today is somewhat important in the new world of college football and nothing from our AD. Is anyone overseeing him?

B or below talent. 40 years of VC have proven this to be very accurate. Do we really think our AD is going to pull a rabbit here. I hate being the bearer of bad news but would any of you want to work for this guy? That should be our number one test. This is like watching a train wreck live.Meanwhile the BB team is sucking whatever cardinal breaths I can take.

Looking like his son current Jackson St QB, will be Buff's QB, and the #1 national recruit last year who Deion attracted to Jackson coming to the Buffs as well as several others. I have no idea how good a QB Neon's son is, but Jackson beat Southern and, like Sac St, advances in the Playoffs.

Knowing your football program is cratering, don’t you have that short list of candidates? Will he allow December 5 to come and go with no hiring? Time for a change in this position also.

Now that we have a definitive end to the Shawbaugh era, i have a slightly random question. Is there value in keeping one or two assistants for familiarity and the like? If so, who would you keep?

I have always liked Yogi. Like Ben, he's a nonalum guy who is respectful of Stanford.

Here are his comments about Shaw:

I give Shaw props for all the things he did to earn Yogi's admiration.

EUTM didn't care about Yogi loving him. He just cared about winning. I would rather have the wins than Yogi's love.

On my way to Maples right now, so firing this thread up.

My recap from last night/mini-preview is here. Check that out if you haven't already.

Watching Michigan crush Ohio states/o it’s best player. A difficult person with many complexities and idiosyncrasies but no denying a hell of a coach.

I had fun in 2021, 2020 and 2019 taking a stab at a top 35 for the Stanford football team and thought I'd try again this year. The exercise is meant to predict how good players will be this fall (so upperclassmen will tend to be higher than newcomers). The basic rule of it is I'm trying to predict the top 35 players by snap count at the end of the season and rank them in terms of quality (best understood in terms of things like quality in relation to Pac-12 peers, which can be approximated by year-end PFF grades). Specialists are not ranked here. The top 35 in snaps is essentially synonymous with the non-specialists who matter in a season, those with approximately 200 snaps over the course of a 12 game season give or take a dozen snaps or so.

You can see in the earlier threads that I did quite well at this the first two years before whiffing last year. Let's see if I can bounce back:

1) Drake Nugent
2) Tanner McKee
3) Walter Rouse
4) Benjamin Yurosek
5) Branson Bragg
6) EJ Smith
7) Elijah Higgins
8) Kyu Blu Kelly
9) Mike Wilson
10) Brycen Tremayne
11) Jake Hornibrook
12) Levani Damuni
13) Barrett Miller
14) Casey Filkins
15) Kendall Williamson
16) John Humphreys
17) Patrick Fields
18) David Bailey
19) Stephen Herron
20) Nicolas Toomer
21) Jacob Mangum-Farrar
22) Jonathan McGill
23) Aaron Armitage
24) Ethan Bonner
25) Jimmy Wyrick
26) Tobin Phillips
27) Salim Turner-Muhammad
28) Lance Keneley
29) Ricky Miezan
30) Myles Hinton
31) Anthony Franklin
32) Tristan Sinclair
33) Collin Wright
34) Bradley Archer
35) Jaxson Moi

Apologies to Jaden Slocum, Aeneas DiCosmo, Bryce Farrell, Sam Roush, Connor McLaughlin, Levi Rogers, and anybody else who might earn significant playing time this season. As always and as should be obvious, there are many very subjective judgment calls in this guesswork. I could keep tinkering with the order as there are still things that don't look quite right to me (e.g., Hornibrook feels too high but I want to take seriously reports he's taken Miller's first team reps, I may be too aggressive in forecasting true freshman impact, the front seven is super tricky to rank given the scheme change, etc.) but I'd rather press post and see what you all think. I'd love to hear any debates/reactions.

I want us to recruit kids that will stay and finish their careers here. Committing to a program and to their teammates is a trait I want in future and existing Stanford players. It reflects badly on them and on our school that they are running for the door. THAT should be another differentiator for us in the future.

Katie Meyer's family has sued Stanford University. A couple of Yahoo! articles are below. Now, one key detail that I would like to address is there is an allegation of a football player sexually assaulting a teammate of Meyer's, who was a minor at the time. According to the reports, she was facing disciplinary action for spilling coffee on the football player.

I don't want to name who I think the player is, but it is a player who is no longer on the team and is no longer enrolled at the school. And this player wasn't on the team last year, either. That's all I'm willing to say on that, but given information I was given previously, it wasn't hard for me to figure out who that player would be.

Katie Meyer's Family Sues Stanford University Says School's 'Reckless' Decision Led To Her Death.


Parents of former Stanford goalie Katie Meyer file wrong death suit against University.

Dear Search Committee,

We know you met with Bronco Mendenhall in the last couple of days. We also know his agent is saying he's the lead candidate.

Friends (of Stanford football) don't let friends (YOU) hire awesome human beings who are mediocre football coaches.

This is a raw feed from a significant BYU booster whose brothers-in-law played for Mendenhall says it all:

" I know him personally. I’ve had two brothers-in-law play for him. He is truly one of the greatest human beings on the planet. Don’t hire him.

Here’s the thing… He literally starts every single training camp with the exact same speech. And part of that speech goes… 'Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s not even in the top three.' What he has to say after that is 100% accurate in life in general. It all has to do with being a great human being. Truth.

But if you are my football coach, that’s the last thing I want coming out of your mouth Both of my brothers-in-law about five years apart came to me and told me the same story right after it happened and they were in shock. No. Killer. Instinct.

But honestly, he is a GREAT guy [but doesn't realize] These two things are not mutually exclusive. I could be a really good human being and also go 12-0. And that’s what we should all be shooting for. Otherwise, All you’re doing is creating an excuse right out of the gate. It’s stupid."