As we enter into the eve of fall saturdays, I find myself more excited for stanford football than I have been in the last decade. I was googling some of my favorite stanford football moments and came across the full episode of college gameday on the farm. I got goosebumps remembering waking up at 4:30 and making it to the quad to see corso and the gang. Figured I would share it here for all the diehards that have all right now in the queue. Enjoy. (For the record I believe TT will get us back to this stage.)

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I've been wondering what it would take for the Shaw-ification of Northwestern's program to be put out of its misery. This story raises a bale of hay that could break the camel's back:

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...zgerald-suspended-northwestern-hazing-inquiry

Like Stanford was with Shaw, I assume Northwestern is influenced by a combination of legendary/unprecedented prior success, Northwestern Man goodwill, and we're not Nebraska pretentiousness to resist accountability for a failing head coach much longer than virtually any other Power Five program would. But if Fitzgerald is bringing disgrace and scandal in addition to 14 wins in four years....a smart program would use this as the rationale to move on.

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Read that here.

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YEAH!!!!

Maybe I should've put 4* in the title. Rivals 4*, composite extremely high 3*

I'm seeing both OT and iOL, but he's 6'6" so take that how you will.

Courtesy of Adam Gorney. No surprise, Stanford was one of the "winners."

The men's US Open was last month and Stanford was well represented with five golfers in the open. Top finisher and only pro participant from Stanford was Patrick Rodgers. There were 4 amateurs from the Stanford team in the tournament, Thorbjornsen, Vilips, Yang and Brown. Although they all missed the cut, it's one of the hardest tournaments to qualify for and of course, they had the most open competitor from one school. Yang was a surprise as he had a horrible sophomore year averaging 77 strokes! Hopefully, it's a sign that he's turned the corner for next year. We have two commits coming in the fall, Gao and Arora. Gao was the #7 recruit in the class and and Arora, although ranked much lower, got Stanford into the team #7 ranking with teams ranked higher having 3 or 4 recruits. Conrad has been hit or miss with recent recruits and are top players are upper classmen.

This week is the women's US Open at Pebble. There are 6+ women from Stanford. The participants are Albane Valenzuela, Kelly Xu, Andrea Lee, Aline Krauter, Sadie Englemann and Rose Zhang. Albane, Kelly, Aline and Sadie played in the morning and the afternoon group has started. Andrea teed off at 1:51 PM and Rose tees off at 2:35 PM. The leader is at -4 and so far, Albane at +2, Aline +1, Kelly and Sadie are +5. Megha didn't make the open this year and if you remember in 2021, she was in the final group on day 4 and was round 1 leader, and she also made the open field last year. The 6+ is that Michelle Wie is playing her last US Women's Open and is a Stanford grad, but of course, never teed it up collegiately. Michelle finished the first round at +7. So tomorrow may be her last round unless she gets really hot. The US Women's Open has a cut line of top 60 plus ties.
There is a Lauren Kim in the field, but this one is from Canada and an amateur. Stanford's Lauren Kim lost her card last year and has retired from golf and pursuing her MBA at Wharton.
Rose played a match at Pebble last fall and shot a course record 63. Of course the USGA has narrowed the fairways and let the rough grow so it'll be a much tougher test.

According to some dude’s power rankings from the action network….

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Read that here. I got more interviews from this spring coming your way. So you all have that to look forward to.

To all CSR posters and their families.

Enjoy the holiday and please Be Safe.

Alrighty, here's a couple of Cameron Brink articles that I finally got posted:

Stanford's Cameron Brink named 2023 WBCA Defensive Player of the Year

Cameron Brink helps USA win FIBA 3x3 World Cup

Read that here.

Stanford Athletics has a new ticketing platform. Details are here. If anyone wants me to pin this for convenience, just let me know.

Rocky posted on TOS that he heard from the restaurant/Grill on A1A in St Augustine where Buddy was hit while on his bike by a car having been hit after emerging between parked cars, that he unfortunately did have to have his leg amputated but is now in recovery/rehab from the accident.
In the meantime Dartmouth appointed an assistant coach as interim. From tone of this announcement appears somewhat possible Buddy might return despite that terrible injury.

Read that here.

Bad news for those of you who want Muir gone.

No way the administration can fire him after this year. Stanford athletics was extraordinarily successful in 2022-2023.

Yep, he could do better. He shows no fire in the belly. A boring bureaucrat. Nothing like Geiger or Bowlsby.

We win the Director's Cup going away. The next dozen or so closest teams are giant public schools that will admit anyone who can sign his or her name.

I'm not defending Muir. We could do a lot better - as we have in the past.

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We'll see what Robinson and Udodi do.

Due to jet lag from just getting back in town, it feels like the afternoon for me right now. Anyways, this is the June football recruiting notes thread. May is here for those that might have missed anything.



The big thing happening in June is official visits. The dates that are happening are the weekend of June 2nd (this weekend), June 9th, and June 23rd. So far at least, nobody has reported back an official visit for the weekend of the 16th. The weekend of the 16th is a chance for guys to head home for a week and spend a little time with their families before heading back to campus for the weekend of the 23rd so as to greet/host official visitors and also greet incoming freshmen. The deadline for guys to be back is Noon on June 24th. Troy Taylor is making it clear to the guys that they cannot be late given the importance of the weekend and the role they play as players in the recruiting process.


In the past, I would have to then write out on here the names of each individual player I have visiting, but now we track that in our database and have a place where that can all be shown in one spot. So, all you have to do to see who is taking official visits is to simply click here and what I have posted so far will pop up! Official visits is the default. For unofficial visits, you have to click on a little tab.

Before I end my writing of this thread, two things I should add: (A) I will be also messaging 2025 kids and 2026 kids this weekend as well about their visit plans. I've just been prioritizing 2024 guys since for them, these will be official visits. (B) I hope to get a full list of official and unofficial visitors for each weekend. I will do everything in my power to get that list. There will definitely be new names added to the list that we don't yet have since there are some guys who are still setting up their visit plans for the month. I would suspect most of that batch will be visiting on the 23rd, but we'll see.

A look at the biggest decommitments last month:

Decommited from ND
Any chance?