[OutsiderFan]

How could I ever have forgotten about Bloomgren at Rice?  I mean, that 6-22 record should have made me remember him much more, right? And Pete Hansen - the most reviled assistant on the coaching staff in my memory - is the only former Shaw assistant who has made it from position coach to coordinator.

Mason is 27-54 (10-45) and Bloomgren is 6-22.

So former David Shaw Head Coaches are 33-76, or .302 win percentage.  If you were to take that is an all-time percentage in college football, that would work out to the worst program in all of FBS history.  Georgia State has a .303 win percentage. The next worse is .356.

Hard to imagine any Head Coach producing two worse Head Coaches than Shaw has. No wonder nobody is banging on Lance Anderson's or Tavita Pritchard's doors. Worse, the only schools that hired them were Vanderbilt and Rice, ostensibly because they had experience at an "academic school," not because anyone who really is all about winning football games wanted them.

All this said, I really liked Derek Mason as Stanford's DC and believe that is his Peter principle level.  Would love to see him come in and replace Anderson if that is the only new DC option.

[OutsiderFan]

How could I ever have forgotten about Bloomgren at Rice?  I mean, that 6-22 record should have made me remember him much more, right? And Pete Hansen - the most reviled assistant on the coaching staff in my memory - is the only former Shaw assistant who has made it from position coach to coordinator.

Mason is 27-54 (10-45) and Bloomgren is 6-22.

So former David Shaw Head Coaches are 33-76, or .302 win percentage.  If you were to take that is an all-time percentage in college football, that would work out to the worst program in all of FBS history.  Georgia State has a .303 win percentage. The next worse is .356.

Hard to imagine any Head Coach producing two worse Head Coaches than Shaw has. No wonder nobody is banging on Lance Anderson's or Tavita Pritchard's doors. Worse, the only schools that hired them were Vanderbilt and Rice, ostensibly because they had experience at an "academic school," not because anyone who really is all about winning football games wanted them.

All this said, I really liked Derek Mason as Stanford's DC and believe that is his Peter principle level.  Would love to see him come in and replace Anderson if that is the only new DC option.