Adam Friedman has that here. Benedict Umeh one of the "winners."

Alrighty, it is time for me to start a new football recruiting notes thread for October. The September thread is here.

At this point, Stanford is shifting their focus towards the 2025 class. However, given how the season is going, they are still focusing on keeping the 2024 class together. They got a good group to visit over the weekend, most of which were 2024 commits. If you missed who that group was, it was posted at the end of the September thread. Those visits have also been added to their profiles, so you can check the visitor tab as well.

One name to keep an eye on is 2024 3-star offensive lineman Kahlil House. He visited Auburn over the weekend and said he is considering them again. It would be nice for Stanford to find a way to win at least a couple more games this year to keep the class at ease. At Colorado is actually one that they might be able to win. Colorado is kind of a mystery team and then Big Game is winnable, too. And who knows, maybe they find a way to surprise Oregon State or Washington State on the road. Not gonna be easy to do that, but I wouldn’t completely rule it out since those games are a bit further down the road.

I think if Stanford could win at a minimum two more games this year, that would help and it would be wonderful if they could win three more. I understand it’s not going to be easy to do that, but I don’t think it’s impossible. Just a shame they didn’t at least beat Sac State and/or Arizona. But this is where they are.

I guess this is all to say that the staff has some work to do it seems to keep the class together. All about sending the right message that this year is a rebuild and that it’s all about next year and beyond.

For 2025, the following non-commits are who they have gotten on campus for a game this season: offensive lineman Joshua Williams (Sac State), tight end Logan Brooking (Sac State), 3-star offensive tackle Peter Langi (Oregon), 3-star tight end Zach Giuliano (Oregon), 4-star tight end James Flanigan (Oregon), and 3-star quarterback Jaylen Johnson (Oregon). For Williams, Brooking, Langi, and Giuliano that was their first recorded visit on campus. So that’s obviously a group that they are trying hard with and also are making progress with as is evident by the fact that they got them to visit for a game.

As far as others who they’ll get out on a visit for a game later this season, that of course remains to be seen, but 4-star offensive tackle Josh Petty and 3-star defensive end Adam Shovlin are two guys who I would be very surprised if they didn’t visit given that they visited at the end of July. Stanford is on those two guys hard as well.

And then I would be shocked if 4-star quarterback Bear Bachmeier doesn’t come out for a game. He already flew out to watch the Hawaii game. Bachmeier is the top target at quarterback and I do feel like Stanford has good odds with him, hence my early FutureCast. Given that Notre Dame is no longer in the mix for him, Stanford really does feel like the front runner at the moment, but they obviously still have some work to do.

I don’t want to just rally off the rest of the offers list, but suffice to say, anybody who hasn’t already committed elsewhere I think you can safely assume the staff is still on. And then even among guys who have committed elsewhere, the staff will be and is actively looking to flip guys. One name to keep an eye on that recently backed out of his commitment to Michigan is 4-star inside linebacker Mantrez Walker. The staff I know has been on him hard.

So, there are plenty of possibilities in 2025. As more and more visits get recorded, that will really help us better get a feel and sense for who they are best building momentum with. Right now, the focus really is on getting more 2025 kids on campus and keeping the 2024 class together.

Read that here.

Read that here.

2024 Home-Louisville, Wake Forest, VT, SMU
Away-Syracuse, NC State, Clemson, Cal

The years thereafter, see the ACC web page

Any word on the men’s scrimmage vs BYU?

Benedict Umeh has been through an incredible fight and it's not over. I'm so glad he was able to speak about his inspiring journey.

Read and watch that here.

Read that here.

Since I no longer live in the Bay Area and apluscelli was tired of me ragging on him, we reached a compromise and he sent me a gift certificate to PGA Super Store. Thank you Aplus, great to see you man up.

Michigan has rescinded Harbaugh Contract re-negotiation/offer. Jimbo in Limbo?

Didn't realize he was a director. Seems like a positive sign this is even being talked about publicly.

Stanford fought toe to toe with the number five team in the country tonight. ESPN gave us less than a five percent chance of winning. A few bad calls by the Pac-12 refs and a drop/underthrow at the end and we might have actually won it.

Yet the knives are out. TT called a bad game, especially down the stretch. A scholarship receiver has to make that catch. Why is Tiger throwing the ball and not Daniels? And on and on and on.

Good lord, we almost beat the number five team in the country. We came close to out gaining them.

Celebrate the great performance on D. Celebrate the great performance on O.

Sure I was pissed for a few minutes, but calmed down. We are a lot better than anyone expected. Love the trajectory. Nothing but support for the team and the coaching staff. TRUST.

I have looked over the internet and here - from Wikipedia - is the entirety of Title IX :

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Notice it says nothing about athletics. So this whole spiel that "Title IX requires such and such" is horse pocky.

But let's drill down.

Take , for example, the Stanford women's squash team.

This board has the most ardent supporters of Stanford athletics to be found. I don't recall a single post here about the Stanford women's squash team.

How many schools give out scholarships for women's squash??? Give me a guess.

I'm betting your guess is wrong. According to this link, there are 3. https://www.athleticsrecruiting.com/squashscholarships.html

Stanford and those 2 powerhouses Drexel and George Washington.

Who did the Stanford women's squash play last year? Only teams in the eastern time
zone. https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-squash/schedule/2022-23.

What about the men's squash team? Well, it is a club sport. Zero scholarships. Darn sure not flying cross country to play UVA or Colby or Harvard. But, golly, there are Bay Area squash teams that we could play. Apparently the athletic department was unaware of this.

What do we conclude from all this data? There is only one conclusion to be drawn from the facts : Stanford is illegally discriminating against male squash players in violation of Title IX.

I will go light on where this can go further. But just let me say that a female squash player getting any admission preference over my grandson is both ill considered and troubling.

That's particularly true when you think about who the women's squash team recruits are. They are not the current students of the school I went to in the Deep South. They aren't students from the inner city in Oakland or Detroit. They are at least mostly and probably entirely from parents with income in the top 10%.

Read that here.

Read that here.

Womens' squash https://csasquash.com/rankings/

Proud to bring the news about women's squash to this board.

Ben has been negligent. I'm forced to backstop him.

Seriously -

As best I noticed, all of these schools are private and at least 2000 miles away from Stanford.

Was not close... Stanford outplayed in all 3 sets. Total ASU dominance throughout.
now 18-3 on the year. This loss will likely knock Stanford out of top 4.
Just one of those days when Stanford out of synch.
And WAY too many service errors without Aces to compensate.

Intriguing prospect to keep an eye on

These helmets are simply awful. Who the hell thought putting the wide stripe on them was a good idea?

They look OK in a vacuum, but doesn't look like Stanford at all.

up 28-17 with 2 min left in the half. considering we were completely uncompetitive vs USC, it's looking grim for the Big Game so far..

2024 3-star PG Elijah Crawford as expected has committed to Stanford. Announced on Instagram moments ago.

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Since my primary window into college football is this board and Stanford games, I’m curious if anyone has any thoughts or quick hits what to look for today? Seen a lot of talk about how good Washington is, and I know they have a good quarterback inPenix, possibly a good defense. Any Matchups or keys that might make the game more interesting for me to watch? Since it’s likely to be a big loss, I’m hoping to find some nuance to make the game interesting.

Stanford has emerged as one of the big frontrunners for him especially after Notre Dame took Deuce Knight: