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I can understand why not Shaw.  Stanford was a different place when Harbaugh left than when he got here.  And if you are already going to a BCS bowl, you don’t want a transformational coach.  Not to underplay what Shaw has done, but his promotion was relatively predictable, and while making the team his own, he didn’t remake the team.  The Harbaugh hire was transformational.

By the way, the more I think about Carroll, the less I think he was #1.  He took a talented and underachieving program, turned it into a talented and appropriately achieving program, then left with a cloud of ncaa sanctions at the door, and USC went back to being talented but underachieving. 

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[BostonCard]

I can understand why not Shaw.  Stanford was a different place when Harbaugh left than when he got here.  And if you are already going to a BCS bowl, you don’t want a transformational coach.  Not to underplay what Shaw has done, but his promotion was relatively predictable, and while making the team his own, he didn’t remake the team.  The Harbaugh hire was transformational.

By the way, the more I think about Carroll, the less I think he was #1.  He took a talented and underachieving program, turned it into a talented and appropriately achieving program, then left with a cloud of ncaa sanctions at the door, and USC went back to being talented but underachieving. 

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