[Snorlax94]

The only rational hope that I have is the pandemic had a much greater impact on Stanford than their opponents and with a somewhat return to normal activities at least the physical development of the team will be significantly improved.

I think there is something to this. The whole conference had fewer games and practices in 2020 and the conference on average had a bad year in 2021. The opening game against KState showed a prepared team against an unprepared team at a completely differrent level. I could see Stanford football suffering disproportinately from reduced games and practices because their systems are complex.

So i think there is the possibility of a good 2022, depending on how hard the coaches and players work every day (and how healthy the players can stay).

I do think Shaw needs to learn to replace staff. Keeping low performers isn’t being a “good guy” and pushing them out isn’t throwing anyone under the bus — keeping struggling staff cheats the fans, it cheats the players, and the field of football is booming financially — former staff members will find jobs elsewhere and they may in fact thrive more and be happier at that next stop.

[Snorlax94]

The only rational hope that I have is the pandemic had a much greater impact on Stanford than their opponents and with a somewhat return to normal activities at least the physical development of the team will be significantly improved.

I think there is something to this. The whole conference had fewer games and practices in 2020 and the conference on average had a bad year in 2021. The opening game against KState showed a prepared team against an unprepared team at a completely differrent level. I could see Stanford football suffering disproportinately from reduced games and practices because their systems are complex.

So i think there is the possibility of a good 2022, depending on how hard the coaches and players work every day (and how healthy the players can stay).

I do think Shaw needs to learn to replace staff. Keeping low performers isn’t being a “good guy” and pushing them out isn’t throwing anyone under the bus — keeping struggling staff cheats the fans, it cheats the players, and the field of football is booming financially — former staff members will find jobs elsewhere and they may in fact thrive more and be happier at that next stop.