1. Troy Taylor is going to take Stanford back to national relevance?
2. David Bailey will be Stanford’s next 1st Round NFL Draft pick?
3. Josh Karty will win the Lou Groza Award?
4. Stanford will will win more games this season than the experts predicted?
5. Stanford will not finish last in the P12’s curtain closing season?
6. You won’t be able to predict most plays Stanford will run On O & D anymore?
7. Gaethan Bernadel is not as good as expected?
8. Ryan Butler is better than expected?
9. Ben Yorosek will be playing on Sundays next year?
10. Ashton Daniels will be a 3- year starter?
11. This is a well-coached team?

After one game, I feel my belief that Stanford was being underrated is warranted. Coaching makes a big difference and I don’t think people appreciate how Troy Taylor’s record at SacState indicates how good he is as a coach. Teams with a pass rush always have to be taken seriously. Stanford has some very good Edge rushers that bad teams typically don’t have. They as a group weren’t as dominant as I expected, but Bailey was better than expected, so net as good as I suspected. And OMG was that the best QB debut I’ve seen since Luck. TT clearly understands how to run a QB-friendly college offense. I always felt when a pass was called under Shaw it was a referendum on the offense. Taylor mixed all kinds of QB tasks into the equation so it wasn’t so binary. Just felt Stanford was running an offense rather than calling individual plays like I felt with Shaw teams, even good ones.

Hawaii put on a pretty impressive showing other than the fact they couldn’t run the ball at all, and their crushing penalties. I’m not going to expect a victory over Southern Cal, but I feel confident Stanford will hold its own and not embarrass itself, at least relative to expectations. I‘m not making any season record prediction but I think everyone needs to expect more wins than they were imagining to be most likely based on being influenced by expert pessimism and the sour taste left over from the Shaw era.

One of my assumptions was we would see players that we thought to be not very good show more than thought possible. I come away from watching the Hawaii game feeling like most of the guys who played were new or not real experienced. The only guys that I knew of playing before but not well, were Sinclair and Gilman, maybe Humphries. All played better than I can ever remember. Anthony Franklin was also better than I thought he could be. Phillips and Moi didn’t have the impact I’d want to see, but they weren‘t pushed around either.

I admittedly stopped caring about Stanford football last year, so my assessment may not match those who did follow closely, but I have to think everyone saw improvements across the board and a team not as weak as they assumed going into the 2023 season.

Removing completely any notion that college football is different than professional football.

He's honest. Sure. Kudos for that.

But how can anyone read this article on the remake of Colorado's roster and not think that collegiate athletics has gone down the $hitter?

I mean, drinking alone while watching the game will be a little less weird if there’s a chatroom or something…

(I can’t be the only one thinking this, right?)

oh, and LFG!

California (32) ACC+B1G
Texas (14) BigXII+SEC+ACC
Georgia (10) SEC+ACC
Florida (6) SEC+ACC
Mass (4) ACC
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NJ (4) B1G
Tenn (3) SEC
Canada (3)
Hawaii (2)
Alabama (2) SEC
Virginia (2) ACC
Oregon (2) B1G
Colorado (2) BigXII
Arizona (2) BigXII
Utah (2) BigXII
Nevada (2)
N Dakota (1)
Conn (1)
MD (1) B1G
N Mex (1)
Missouri (1) SEC
Idaho (1)
N Car (1) ACC
Ohio (1) B1G
Wash (1) BIG
Mich (1) B1G
NY (1) ACC
Minn (1) B1G
Arkansas (1) SEC
Louisiana (1) SEC
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ACC will have footprint in 5 of the top 5 states on our current roster
We used to have more players on our roster from Arizona, Washington and Oregon than we do today, even tho we're still in Pac12
Actually very few of our current players drawn from Midwest/Great Lakes/Great Plains area where B1G Dominates

Jimmy Buffett passed away last evening. Great entertainer, always seemingly positive and upbeat. Such a bummer. He will be missed. RIP Pirate.

Read that here. As I posted earlier, I've been told Ashton Daniels will start. No sure how many reps Lamson and/or Patu will get or how the snaps will be distributed, but Daniels is starting.

Wonder if Hasse is puckering at the moment. If we looked outclassed and mediocre on a good day, I can't imagine how we'll fare against ACC team, particularly on the road. Maybe that will be the proverbial push that's needed.

On the women's side, Tara was very adamant against something like joining the B1G. I am sure she's even more thrilled now. But given what seems to be her frustration with the portal, NIL and the changing landscape, the realignment could be the factor that makes this season her last. Between these factors and the end-of-season collapse, a case could be made that she should leave the party while it's still fun.

Marquess and Shaw hung around way past their sell-by dates. Hasse has too. Maybe it's time for Kate Paye.

Let’s kick some butt tonight! Been trying to tamp down expectations all day, but appears my tampinator is on the tlfritz. LET’S GO!!!

I expect there to be lots of breaking news, twists and turns in the coming weeks as Stanford looks for its next home.

Can we try and keep all sourced (Twitter and otherwise) news updates in a singular thread (ideally this one) so I don’t have to click through 5-6 threads that contain roughly the same content?

Thanks in advance!

Approaching Last Call for Over/Under bets....a little over 2 hours before kickoff.

Las Vegas (MGM) has Stanford at 2.5 wins
Bovada (online) has Stanford at 1.5 wins

Easy money right!

That's Louisville at Georgia Tech at 7:30pm ET on ESPN.

How do y'all feel about this game in light of the fact Stanford will likely play at least one of them in 2024 and be in the ACC with them? Man, that feel weird to type...

Read and watch that here.

The game is supposedly televised on CBS sports network.
Where is that found since it not the normal CBS network

Stanford Football means a lot to me, hearing my grandfather and great grandfather attend games in the 30's, 40's, 50, 60's. With my father telling me stories of the '71 team, '72 team and perhaps this man named Walsh, something Bill Walsh? Couldn't recall All the way into the 80's as he told me countless stories of the end zone bleachers, coolers and kegs. With many stories to talk about the trips down El Camino, Celias, The Nuthouse at later ages. Then having the opportunity as a young man, being able to see multiple games as an youth, playing the halftime show of the terrible loss against Davis, going to see both Navy(walt's opener at stanford stadium home opener, albiet after a few seasons of wlat ) and Harbaugh's home opener and subsequently 70+stanford games in the last 15 years as an young adult. There is a lot of Negativity around Stanford athletics, stanford football, etc. Living in San Francisco, as a non alum, I might be 1/100 in terms of Card Football fans in the area, But let's rejoice about the positives! What is your story of Stanford Football?

Looking forward to game 1:

1. No more black outline on the jerseys
2. How does Taylor react to negative situations as the season grows? How does his Denny's playbook look tomrorow? Sunday?
3. Lamson, Daniels, Patu, one of these carries the reigns until Brown next year, and probably until 2025 imo. Does Jackson emerge?
4. Cooper, Cooper, Cooper, give me the edge rushers. Bailey, Tafiti, etc
5. ENDZONE FADES HAHAHA get outta here, can we see something else that doesn't involve a fade on 1st down? 2nd down? Do NOT remind me of the big game with McKee on the goal-line.
6. Elic Ayomanor, everything we've read, seen, big time athlete, but can he put it together? Not expecting much early.
7. Do we punt from the 35 again? What does Taylor do with a lead? Turtle?
8. April, April, April, it's almost September first, but I'm feeling the spring. Between Ben's interviews, early understandings of Stanford's initial interviews. Excited about the young potential of Stanford's defensive staff.

What's yours? 24 hours from kick off.

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Daniels is QB1 but has an Or with Lamson and Patu.

LC has an IG page now:


Looks like Kate Dalman is taking an operations role there:
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Depending on how they sort out the assets vs liabilities in the bank or coming due of what left of the Pac12, either invite Mountain West into the Pac for a restructured no longer power-5 Pac12, or take what they can from dissolved Pac12 and join the Mtn West. Either way MW Commissioner Navarez would run it. Will take several weeks to work it all out,

If under new arrangements we were to schedule them as non-conf games now and then for old times sake, getting to Wazzu in the Palouse a lot harder than Ore St in Corvallis for us here in the Bay Area. Might even be an all around easier road trip for our basketball team to get to Dook than Wazzu.

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Note: This thread is locked so as to not have too many different thread discussions going on. I'll put a link to this thread in both ACC threads just to streamline things a bit.

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Figured a new thread should be started for this topic. To kick things off, I’ve been informed Bobby Kennedy and Terry Heffernan are gone.

I do expect Taylor to bring in a lot of his Sac State guys. Anyways, as we learn more about how he’ll round out/complete his staff, we can add that info into here.

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Questions for Hawaii locals —

How should I get to the Hawaii game? Should I drive? If so, where should I park? Or should I take a cab or a ride sharing service?

Are there any interesting pre-game activities on campus? Any food recommendations in or around the stadium?

Thanks.