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…with apologies to K. Dot

(Whispers) Psst…I see dead Oski
Trader Joe got the food, ho

Ayy, Trader Jo got the food, ho
Larry and Sergei started Google
First server still on campus, come an take a look bro
When you not watchin’ TV to see Rachel Maddow

What’s up with these jabroni-ass weenies tryna keep the axe?
Y’all cna hate me but it’s ours an’ that’s a fact

How many ops you really got? I mean, it’s too many options
I’m finna pass on this vax like I’m Aaron Rodgers
Who say he went to Butte CC when TV watchin’

Sometimes I gotta pop out and show weenies
Certified boogeyman, I’m bigger than yo’ Campanile

Our kicker won two games, he’s Emmet Kenney

Walk yours down, whole time, I know he got a loss in him
Lost to Pitt, nervous shit, loss to NC State on him

Say mascot Oski, why you walk around like that?
Stupid-ass grin with yo’ hands behind yo’ back

Even if you win the game, y’all know we the best
Without us, y’all would be in the Mountain West

Y’all got a new Chancellor, name of Rich Lyons
Didn’t get the job first time, but he kept tryin’

I ain't sayin’ nothin’ bout him or his spouse
You gotta ask them bout that night at Free House

And John Yoo a weird case, why is he around?
Named chair tenured prof or war criminal?

Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Tree, **** 'em up
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, I'ma do my stuff

Why you tryna pass the bar? Ain’t you tired?
Tryna remember your law deans— probably John Dwyer

Cal not like us, Cal not like us, Cal not like us
Cal not like us, Cal not like us, Cal not like us

My son and I are still attending, but we received two tickets from a good friend of ours, so selling the two I bought from Stanford in our allocation (Section OO). It should be partly cloudy and a decent temperature for the bringing back of the Axe to the Farm! Trying to get the face value per ticket of $85 each back (tickets on StubHub over $100). Easy electronic transfer. DM or reply here if interested.

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Great find @akhockey7 -- I think this article deserves its own thread

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/11/20/stanford-athletics-football-illusion-of-success/

Kaushik really does thread the needle here. We all generally know this, but he spells out so well how the Stanford Athletics Dept pats themselves on the back for Olympic sports success when we have a built in monopoly.

If you are an elite Fencer, why would you not get a free world-class education on the most beautiful campus in the world? Especially when you have no better options in terms of leveraging your athletic Fencing ability (money, fame, etc.)

Stanford Athletics is very much playing with fire in terms of letting MBB and Football fall this far. No major conference wants a Football team as bad as Stanford's has been this year

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I was going through Continuing Studies winter quarter offerings, and stumbled on this. It appears both in-person and virtual is offered. (Section "Z" is online). Just posting here as an fyi. The guest list is impressive.

It's big game week and we have all these articles from Stanford students in the Stanford Daily acting like we need to get humbled by Berkeley. No one cares about athletics at Stanford. It's a classic and false trope that the "lowly" public UC Berkeley are the good guys doing the right thing and we all sold out for the "evil" private Stanford Inc.

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Troy Taylor, Sam Roush, and Tristan Sinclair will address the media. I’ll drop a link to the presser once it’s live.

Some names:

Gio Lopez (South Alabama): #25 in Total QBR as a redshirt freshman, reported a 3.4 high school GPA

Caden Veltkamp (Western Kentucky): #30 in Total QBR as a redshirt sophomore, reported a 3.7 high school GPA and 25 ACT

John Mateer (Washington State): #31 in Total QBR as a redshirt sophomore, Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and College Sports Communicators Academic All-District

Darian Mensah (Tulane): #34 in Total QBR as a redshirt freshman, reported a 3.5 high school GPA, from California

Devon Dampier (New Mexico): #44 in Total QBR as a true sophomore, Mountain West All-Academic, majoring in electrical engineering, reported 3.8 high school GPA

Aidan Bouman (South Dakota): #2 PFF grade in FCS, has a sixth year of eligibility left next year, MVFC honor roll

Jaden Craig (Harvard): #5 PFF grade in FCS in his third year, goes to Harvard

Camden Coleman (Richmond): #9 PFF grade in FCS (albeit splitting time) as a true sophomore, Glenn Scholar Athlete Award for highest GPA, Rotary Club Award for Academic Excellence

Joe Pesansky (Holy Cross): #12 PFF grade in FCS as a fourth year player, still has a fifth year if he wants it, Patriot League Academic Honor Roll

Tommy Rittenhouse (Illinois State): #13 PFF grade in FCS as a fourth year player, still has a fifth year if he wants it, academic all state in high school

Malcolm Mays (Hampton): #14 PFF grade in FCS (albeit splitting time) as a fourth year player, still has a fifth year if he wants it, CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll

Hayden Johnson (Lehigh): #16 PFF grade in FCS (albeit splitting time) as a true freshman, reported 3.98 high school GPA

Brady Meitz (Stetson): #20 PFF grade in FCS as a fourth year player, still has a fifth year if he wants it, PFL Academic Honor Roll, pre-med biology major who plans to go to medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon

Miller Moss (USC): #26 in Total, one year of eligibility left, just saying maybe there's a world Riley gets fired or decides he needs a sexier QB or Moss wants to get Stanford on his resume after all this time.....yeah, I said day dreaming

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Just some names I'd be intrigued by if neither Daniels nor Brown takes big strides the rest of the way. The first five guys (plus Moss of course) are good major college football quarterbacks right now. The FCS guys obviously play much worse competition and would be riskier (though one could also imagine some FCS guys transferring to Stanford to be backups). Among that group, Bouman, Pesansky, and Rittenhouse play legitimate competition by FCS standards and Bouman already leads a flat out better team than Stanford. The others are likely too big of a leap in competition to be worth considering unless it's consciously as a backup option if we experience QB attrition this offseason.

If I'm Troy Taylor, Mensah, Dampier, and Bouman get a loooooooong look. Now, my thinking on this is probably not novel and these guys may have much better options than Stanford, but you don't make shots you don't take. Again, absent a big month ahead it is possible that probabilistically nobody in our pipeline is likely to be a better option next year.

Elijah Brown likely still our QB of the future and it's far too early to write him off, just musing on what's out there.

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Got an email today with a link to the following event which seems like it could be worthwhile. Aside from the topic, the speakers are definitely more relevant to the future and the support of athletics. Most interestingly, I did not know that there was a COO for Athletics. How long has that been a thing, and what exactly is the portfolio?

It's also not clear to whom she reports. The fact that Bernie is not part of this presentation and the COO has a media/growth company background is intriguing.

And for those who rue the inaccuracies and inattention to detail from the SID, it carries over into the Alumni Association. I am not sure what a Chief Operator Officer is, but that's Alden's title in the registration blurb.

ACC/NIL discussion 10/10

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Looks like a former player is crowd sourcing NIL

The new Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest risers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-32
Position-by-position breakdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/tuesdays-with-gorney-new-2025-rivals250-released-8
The Five-Star Countdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-five-star-countdown-for-2025-class-17
Meet the new five-stars: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-meet-the-new-five-stars-8
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