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I'm certainly happy with the playcalling and increased courage of David Shaw in personnel.  Rice is bottom five FBS imo, which is not a knock against the players, but it's just a struggling program right now.  They were better a few years ago when they had Vance McDonald running around at TE, but it's been bad for the last few seasons.

This early Jan 2017 poll had Rice at 115th in all of FBS.  That's *bad.*
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/213...kings-2017

So Stanford absolutely should have fried Rice the way $EC teams routinely shellack Coastal Carolina.  And mayyyybe Stanford should have tried harder for a shutout, but I'm not worried about that.  I just would have liked a little better execution in all phases of the game.  But hey, it's the first game.

[fullmetal]

I'm certainly happy with the playcalling and increased courage of David Shaw in personnel.  Rice is bottom five FBS imo, which is not a knock against the players, but it's just a struggling program right now.  They were better a few years ago when they had Vance McDonald running around at TE, but it's been bad for the last few seasons.

This early Jan 2017 poll had Rice at 115th in all of FBS.  That's *bad.*
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/213...kings-2017

So Stanford absolutely should have fried Rice the way $EC teams routinely shellack Coastal Carolina.  And mayyyybe Stanford should have tried harder for a shutout, but I'm not worried about that.  I just would have liked a little better execution in all phases of the game.  But hey, it's the first game.