The football program posted this on Facebook yesterday:
"A team so deep, we had to make
✌ posters. Free for all fans at the Cardinal and White Spring Game, with team autograph session to follow.
Come cheer and meet our players Saturday at 1pm at Cagan Stadium.#CWSG17 #GoStanford"
The posters that followed featured the following players:
Offense poster: Dalton Schultz, David Bright, Keller Chryst, Bryce Love, Trenton Irwin
Defense poster: Kevin Palma, Harrison Phillips, Peter Kalambayi, Quenton Meeks, Justin Reid
It's just a poster but I wonder if it might indicate current thinking on star players/leaders and maybe even a leading indicator for some position battles. For instance, maybe Chryst has a pretty firm lead in the program's mind over Burns and Costello despite the injury rehab; maybe speculation of Palma's depth chart demise (talk of Alfieri and Okereke as the starting inside linebackers) is premature.
The eye-popping omission to me is Alfieri. He is our only non-specialist all-conference player who wasn't included. I guess seniority deference went to (never all-conference) Kalambayi. I understand deference to seniority to a degree but with exercises like this you'd want to try to anticipate who might emerge as true national stars. I think Alfieri joins Phillips and the DBs as our candidates for national stardom this year.
"A team so deep, we had to make
Come cheer and meet our players Saturday at 1pm at Cagan Stadium.#CWSG17 #GoStanford"
The posters that followed featured the following players:
Offense poster: Dalton Schultz, David Bright, Keller Chryst, Bryce Love, Trenton Irwin
Defense poster: Kevin Palma, Harrison Phillips, Peter Kalambayi, Quenton Meeks, Justin Reid
It's just a poster but I wonder if it might indicate current thinking on star players/leaders and maybe even a leading indicator for some position battles. For instance, maybe Chryst has a pretty firm lead in the program's mind over Burns and Costello despite the injury rehab; maybe speculation of Palma's depth chart demise (talk of Alfieri and Okereke as the starting inside linebackers) is premature.
The eye-popping omission to me is Alfieri. He is our only non-specialist all-conference player who wasn't included. I guess seniority deference went to (never all-conference) Kalambayi. I understand deference to seniority to a degree but with exercises like this you'd want to try to anticipate who might emerge as true national stars. I think Alfieri joins Phillips and the DBs as our candidates for national stardom this year.
