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Yeah, it seems like quite a few top recruits these days are most interested in enrolling early, playing early, and getting to the League early. Stanford is probably not a good fit for them.

Well, Stanford seems to be a perfectly good fit for kids wanting to get to the League early, is perfectly fine for playing early despite the stereotypes about Shaw and frosh,* but indeed doesn't work at all for those wanting to enroll early. 


The article makes the whole situation seem rather … icky. But again, I don't see that Stanford is necessarily a particularly bad fit for icky. I am also reminded to be careful, lots of newspaper articles work excessively hard to paint a picture in the writers eye that may or may not exist in reality (and whenever I personally know much about the topic of the article - it seems the answer is it doesn't quite exist in reality). 


* While generically it may be reasonable to play as a frosh at Stanford, early playing time for a QB starting this year may indeed be much more difficult than many places, particularly $C. We have a returning incumbent coming off a redshirt frosh season and a highly rated guy who will be a redshirt frosh. $C, as I understand their situation, just lost their starting QB nominally two years early and have a cast of guys already in school who haven't distinguished themselves.

[CTcard]

Yeah, it seems like quite a few top recruits these days are most interested in enrolling early, playing early, and getting to the League early. Stanford is probably not a good fit for them.

Well, Stanford seems to be a perfectly good fit for kids wanting to get to the League early, is perfectly fine for playing early despite the stereotypes about Shaw and frosh,* but indeed doesn't work at all for those wanting to enroll early. 


The article makes the whole situation seem rather … icky. But again, I don't see that Stanford is necessarily a particularly bad fit for icky. I am also reminded to be careful, lots of newspaper articles work excessively hard to paint a picture in the writers eye that may or may not exist in reality (and whenever I personally know much about the topic of the article - it seems the answer is it doesn't quite exist in reality). 


* While generically it may be reasonable to play as a frosh at Stanford, early playing time for a QB starting this year may indeed be much more difficult than many places, particularly $C. We have a returning incumbent coming off a redshirt frosh season and a highly rated guy who will be a redshirt frosh. $C, as I understand their situation, just lost their starting QB nominally two years early and have a cast of guys already in school who haven't distinguished themselves.