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Stewart Mandel//lost identity

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What an odd game.

Jump is 1-7.

Jones is 3-12.

Terrible.

Feed the frigin post(s). I'm begging here.

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Tiger Bachmeier on the news of David Shaw's resignation: "I’m going to talk with coach (Bobby Kennedy) and I’ll see from there."

So many off us point to the Fiasco Bowl as the canary in the coal mine but clearly there were symptoms before that. My recollection is fuzzy. Any ideas?

Someone at BYU didn't like the halftime show. I wasn't there but this sounds mild by historical band standards.

Getting crushed by a mediocre BYU team at home. I cannot watch any more. So frustrating. Expected our d to be bad but this is next level and are offense is downright atrocious.

In that BYU, Cal, and ASU are similarly ranked (all between 79 and 82 in latest SP+), and that we're at home, I can see Stanford being competitive.

Shaw tries a few new things for the offseason narrative that he's a creative play caller. A couple work on BYU's suspect defense. Bad late game time management loses the game.

Shaw spends the press conference talking about upcoming and exciting transfer/NIL initiatives and how he'd love to see what Stanford can do in a full season without devastating injuries.

BYU- 30
Stanford- 24

Harbaugh shows again that you can win with an older style of football - if you have the right personnel. Really surprised at how UM dominated OSU.

Clemson finally showed their true colors. Mid level team in the SEC.

I hate USC but they probably deserve to go to the play-offs this year. I expect them to get blown out by Georgia.

We played a lot of very good teams this year. Sagarin ranked our SOS #1 going into this game. Notre Dame better than it appeared early. WSU, OSU both much improved. UW, UCLA surprisingly good. UO, USC, Utah very good - no surprise. Cal and ASU not good. BYU average.

I probably would not have been upset with 6 wins, since I expected 2 or 3. 6 would be the expected number with this personnel group and an innovative coach.

I assume the mass exodus for the portal has temporarily slowed. How patient will players be as we search for a new coach?

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If so, how can he not resign given his stewardship of this monumental decline?

Wilner: "An important date looms for the Cardinal: How many players will enter the transfer portal when it opens on Dec. 5?"

If shaw is going to be retained, I might as well go to the game and cheer for our team. kind of dislike getting my kids used to cheering on a losing team, but if I learned anything from religion it's about hooking em young.

link: https://gostanford.com/

just the Announcement. No Statement.

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I graduated Stanford in 1992. At the time, while our Olympic sports were strong, I think it was fair to question whether Stanford could ever really compete at the two big revenue sports. At that point, in the modern era we had never really been top-10 on any kind of sustained basis. We had some decent teams and some big upsets. But even teams like 70 & 71 lost some games they shouldn't have and weren't really elite in college football.

Mike Montgomery changed that. He built a basketball program that for the better part of a decade was clearly one of the ten best in the country. He did it over multiple recruiting classes with different players. He proved you could win at a revenue sport despite our academic standards. But I think there was a real question is this applied to football. Schools like Duke had always done well at basketball but never really been able to compete in football.

Harbaugh (and Shaw continuing he program) changed that. In six years we went to 5 BCS Bowl games and finished in the Sagarin top-10 each of those years. Even the one down year of 2014 we finished 18th in Sagarin. This showed the world that Stanford can be a dominant football program.

It is important to recognize how rare that kind of string of success is. In the modern era, what other Pac-12 schools have had that kind of string of success?

U$C clearly. Oregon had a similar run at about he same time we did. UW in the early 90s. CO before they were in the P-12. Anyone else?

I don't remember a similar run at UCLA. WSU, OSU, cal, UA, ASU & Utah clearly not.

NIL & Transfers may have made it a bit harder but the truth is we are one of the few schools on the west coast that have shown they can really compete at the highest levels.

I think Stanford is a pretty good job that many will be interested in....

10:30 AM PT on ESPNEWS. Thread is here.

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Stanford introduces some NIL adjustment and gets more aggressive seeking transfers.
Shaw stays.
A couple of assistants are let go.
We continue to gnash our teeth at the product on the field.
Happy Black Friday everybody