TO BECOME A CARDINAL!!

Louisville Cardinal that is. Correct me if I'm wrong but Louisville wasn't even a Power 5 program 10 years ago. That's huge news for them if true.

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I don't want to even imagine how bad it's going to get on these boards if we whiff on our hire while Louisville snags Brohm and Colorado gets Primetime. Both those programs are definitely a tier or two below ours even if our coaching hires suggest otherwise.

Please please please let it be Petersen, Aranda, or Fleck 🙏

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Use Samuel's Archive link in thread or this one here:

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.