[TheFarm07]

There was a recent article on ESPN.com relaying how Stanford's strict academic admissions standards have become an asset in football recruiting.  We talked about the difficulty of getting top prospects in women's bball; why isn't it more of a big deal here?

For all of Shaw's (and Harbaugh's) successes, the football team has only returned to prominence in the last 6-7 years, yet Stanford's popularity among HS recruits has seem to grown rapidly in that time period and it's become a destination school for those who want the mix of top level academics and great football performance.

But Tara has had a 25+ year history of elite success only matched by a handful of programs and offers a degree at the end that can't be beat by other successful womens bball schools.  Plus the financial incentives of a NFL career is much greater than a WNBA career or even playing overseas, so that should all play into our favor to target and develop elite level high school bball prospects in their freshman or sophomore years, so that by junior or senior year, they will have taken the AP classes and gotten high ACT or SAT scores to get into Stanford.

Yet, in the last few years, it seems maybe 1 or 2 of the top-5 or top-10 recruits have even expressed interest in Stanford as one of their final schools, much less chosen the Farm.  Is there a disconnect here somewhere?

[TheFarm07]

There was a recent article on ESPN.com relaying how Stanford's strict academic admissions standards have become an asset in football recruiting.  We talked about the difficulty of getting top prospects in women's bball; why isn't it more of a big deal here?

For all of Shaw's (and Harbaugh's) successes, the football team has only returned to prominence in the last 6-7 years, yet Stanford's popularity among HS recruits has seem to grown rapidly in that time period and it's become a destination school for those who want the mix of top level academics and great football performance.

But Tara has had a 25+ year history of elite success only matched by a handful of programs and offers a degree at the end that can't be beat by other successful womens bball schools.  Plus the financial incentives of a NFL career is much greater than a WNBA career or even playing overseas, so that should all play into our favor to target and develop elite level high school bball prospects in their freshman or sophomore years, so that by junior or senior year, they will have taken the AP classes and gotten high ACT or SAT scores to get into Stanford.

Yet, in the last few years, it seems maybe 1 or 2 of the top-5 or top-10 recruits have even expressed interest in Stanford as one of their final schools, much less chosen the Farm.  Is there a disconnect here somewhere?