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I also expect getting good coaches to work at Stanford is real, real hard, and getting harder by the day. It isn't just, or even mostly, the high cost of living. It is dealing with the fact you can't recruit from anything like the same pool other colleges do. Why take a job that ties your hands unless 1) you really want to teach "student athletes" and succeed under those terms, or 2) you think you can make a short-term splash and leave within 2 years. Nobody is going to come here hoping to get the head coaching job eventually. It just isn't that desirable position. It might pay a lot of money, but it can also be a career killer. Shaw is going to have to hire from the small pool available, and that may not get us what we need.

I could not disagree more with the notion that assistant coaches do not want to coach here.  If they're paid enough to cover COL differentials - and the housing assistance helped on that front - then why wouldn't you want to coach here?  There's a lot to be said for getting kids who will not cause the 3:00 a.m. call.  And assistant coaches historically have done quite well after Stanford.  Just look at the crew under Harbaugh!  So I don't buy for a second that Stanford has institutional barriers to coaching success.

The problem now will be attracting good coaches who might view Shaw as damaged goods/on borrowed time. As I said on TOS, I'm thinking the AD might have to extend 3-year guaranteed contracts to the new assistants brought on board.  And they should happily do that if they're dead set on keeping Shaw (which I think we all agree is what is going to happen).

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I also expect getting good coaches to work at Stanford is real, real hard, and getting harder by the day. It isn't just, or even mostly, the high cost of living. It is dealing with the fact you can't recruit from anything like the same pool other colleges do. Why take a job that ties your hands unless 1) you really want to teach "student athletes" and succeed under those terms, or 2) you think you can make a short-term splash and leave within 2 years. Nobody is going to come here hoping to get the head coaching job eventually. It just isn't that desirable position. It might pay a lot of money, but it can also be a career killer. Shaw is going to have to hire from the small pool available, and that may not get us what we need.

I could not disagree more with the notion that assistant coaches do not want to coach here.  If they're paid enough to cover COL differentials - and the housing assistance helped on that front - then why wouldn't you want to coach here?  There's a lot to be said for getting kids who will not cause the 3:00 a.m. call.  And assistant coaches historically have done quite well after Stanford.  Just look at the crew under Harbaugh!  So I don't buy for a second that Stanford has institutional barriers to coaching success.

The problem now will be attracting good coaches who might view Shaw as damaged goods/on borrowed time. As I said on TOS, I'm thinking the AD might have to extend 3-year guaranteed contracts to the new assistants brought on board.  And they should happily do that if they're dead set on keeping Shaw (which I think we all agree is what is going to happen).