Word is he’s in.

As I was lying in bed last night, I got to thinking about my favorite Stanford football wins, in my lifetime. The first three were easy:

#1 for me was easy; the Plunkett Rose Bowl. OSU had lost 1 game in 3 years; if they had beaten us, it would have gone down as the best Ohio State team of all time; it's still might be one of their best 3 year runs. They were loaded with All Americans. We had lost three games, including our last 2. We were HUGE underdogs. Our last Rose Bowl was in 1951, when we got punked by Illinois, Our last Rose Bowl win was in 1940. And yet we beat them. When it became apparent that the impossible was going to happen, and we did the Ax yell, I think the Bowl was shaken to its foundations. I still get chills thinking about it.

Deciding between #2 and #3 was tough, but I finally went with:

#2 2015, the McCaffery Rose Bowl. I mean scoring on the 1st play from scrimmage, 35 to nothing at the half, McCaffery setting Rose Bowl records, how can you not love it? Topped off my one of our best half time shows in memory, that had the Iowa people frothing at the mouth.

#3 My freshmen year was the start of a 12 year win less streak against SC. I HATE SC, even though I went to law school there. Any win over SC is great, but nothing beats the "what's your deal" game. To set the all time home scoring record against them - delicious. And then to have Harbaugh go for two when we had 48 points, so we could lay 50 on them, in effect saying F**k you, USC - wonderful. And they when we didn't get the 2 points, but broke 50 anyway, the cheery on top.

After the top three, it gets tough, What comes next? Is it "the greatest upset of all time", that kicked off the Harbaugh/Shaw wonder years; the triple overtime SC game; the 1970 Plunkett win over SC that finally ended the 12 year winless streak; the improbable come back "revenge of the Play" win over cal; destroying Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl; Walsh routing Penn State in the Blockbuster Bowl; anyone of several wins over Notre Dame who I hate almost as mush as SC? I don't know, and I'm probably leaving out some. What do you think?

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He had visited Kansas State, cancelled his Texas Tech visit in favor of ours, and had upcoming visits to UVA and TCU. This was his first season playing OT (was a DE/TE last season) and he has great measurables.

Congrats and welcome, Kaden!

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Ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Welcome to the Stanford women's basketball recruiting notes for June. If you missed anything from May, check out the May recruiting thread here.


First off, On3 keeps track of women's basketball offers, so check out the Stanford women's basketball offers list here. Nice find, @akhockey7! I can just link to that in every recruiting thread going forward. It's not all the offers, but it's at least a good chunk of them. I know their commit list doesn't include everybody. But hey, at least it's something!


Right now, Stanford is bringing in a talented freshman class consisting of McDonald's All-Americans center Alex Eschmeyer, forward Lara Somfai and point guard Hailee Swain. Forward Nora Ezike and wing Carly Amborn round out the class as four-star talents who did not make the cut for McDonald's All-American. Top five class in the nation. My write up on the class is here in case you want a refresher on the group.


Additional girls I have on the offers 2026 list that I didn't see on the On3 list were 5-star small forward Addison Bjorn, 4-star point guard Devin Cosgriff, and 4-star point guard Atlee Vanesko. The one name that is on their list that I didn't have is 2026 5-star power forward Oliviyah Edwards. So I've made note of her.

As for 2027: 5-star Small forward Jordyn Palmer who is on On3's list, I didn't have. So I've added her to the list that I keep. The one that they didn't have is 4-star small forward Madeline Mignery.

Finally, 2028: On3 has nothing on the 2028 class. Stanford has a commit in 4-star guard Jhaliana Guy and they're also on 3-star forward Amy Nduka.

That's what I got. As usual, I'm sure @Bobbk will correct me on some things.

A couple hours ago I picked up a Pizza for the family at Cafe Zoe in the Menlo Park Willows. One other guy in there picking up a pizza, it's Bobby April

-He lives in the Willows
-He said Stanford players and Wisconsin players are similar. Smart, tough, good kids
-Said Luck is "everywhere". In every meeting, with recruits, etc.
-I asked him an open-ended question about the Defense, who is standing out. He said Collin Wright and then said the Front 7
-He also mentioned Hunter Barth, said "its nice to steal a starter from Cal"

I could have asked him 20 more questions but the Pizza was starting to get cold

Well, it makes me feel a little bit better seeing how dominant the ACC has been in the NCAA tournament. https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/baseball/d1/2025

Qualified for Super Regional
Louisville went 3-0, including beating #1 Vanderbilt, on its way to the Super Regional.
Florida State went 3-0, on its way to the Super Regional.
Duke went 3-0, including beating #7 Georgia, on its way to a Super Regional.

Playing Today for a Spot
UNC playing Oklahoma for a spot in the Super Regional
Miami is playing Southern Miss for a spot in the Super Regional.
Wake Forest is playing Tennessee for a spot in the Super Regional after beating them yesterday to force a final game.

Eliminated
NC State had a strong run but ultimately lost in the final game to #4 Auburn
Clemson was the most disappointing and eliminated in 3 games
Georgia Tech played okay but lost to #11 Ole Miss.

Conferences in Super Regionals
ACC - 3 (with a potential of up to 6)
SEC - 2 (with a potential of up to 6)
B12 - 2
B1G - 1

Lot hinges on these last couple games, but either way this tournament has to feel like a failure for the SEC who talked all year about how great they were going to be. Texas and Vanderbilt both losing hurt.

B1G is really going to struggle moving forward, hard to imagine how they recruit baseball players.

ACC has been by far the best performer so far, but that could change after today's games. Wake Forest vs Tennessee and UNC vs Oklahoma will be very very good games if you want to tune in.

3-star cornerback Jason Hill Jr. out of Folsom, CA has committed to Stanford. Rivals has him as a receiver but he is indeed gonna be playing corner.

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Read that here.

I am curious what this group thinks or knows of Stanford's current recruiting staff. From rumblings I have heard, the recruiting results, and what I see on social media, I have some real concerns:

Here's what I'm seeing on the directory:

Preston Pehrson - Director, leads the group, in his third year from short tenures at UConn, Texas Tech, Houston, and NAVY

Albert Garcia - Asst Director, in third year from Fresno State. Was a technology recruiter from 2019-2021, worked in junior roles at Houstons Football program prior to that

Jordan Watkins - Asst Director, Stanford guy that we know, but started his recruiting career just last year, previously a broadcaster

India Zepeda - Asst Director, started last month, graduated from Fresno State undergrad this May

Natalia Chino - Asst Director, 2nd year in the program, previously on the Events team with the NY Giants and Football Operations at Wesleyan a DIII school

To me, it looks like this staff is light on experience, especially quality experience.

Additionally, there are social media posts that I find odd:

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Eric Reveno has been named the general manger of Stanford men's basketball on top of his associate head coaching role. Stanford release is here. I'll add my own article in here when I get it up.

Is this good? Seems not good.

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Stanford graduate and 14 medal Olympian, Katie Ledecky is giving the commencement speech. For anyone seeing her wear other swim caps at meets, this squarely shows that she's a Stanford woman. Commencement is this Sunday from 9:30-11:30 AM at Stanford Stadium.

I'm sure it'll be posted on YouTube shortly afterwards.