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One thing Petros said last night stood out to me: that UO is loaded with transfers, reminiscent of USC. This seems to be a key trend. As long as Stanford is not in the transfer game and takes admissions seriously, it will be greatly out-talented and have much slower team speed than USC, UO, and UCLA, perhaps also Utah. Or do people here believe that the right new coach could make us competitive again?

Yes, Oregon's football team had 21 transfers, USC's had 19.  Stanford probably had about 25 transfer into the entire university.

The transfer pool now makes it less necessary that a coach be a great recruiter or developer of talent, unless by "recruiting" you mean convincing a player who has been recruited and developed by someone else to come to your team instead.

As of Wednesday, 1,738 first-year students and 47 transfer students are matriculating at Stanford.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/09...re-engage/

USC and Oregon both have new coaches this year which probably boosts their transfer in (and out) numbers.  Will be interesting to see if programs have 15-20 transfers a year every year.

[82lsju]

One thing Petros said last night stood out to me: that UO is loaded with transfers, reminiscent of USC. This seems to be a key trend. As long as Stanford is not in the transfer game and takes admissions seriously, it will be greatly out-talented and have much slower team speed than USC, UO, and UCLA, perhaps also Utah. Or do people here believe that the right new coach could make us competitive again?

Yes, Oregon's football team had 21 transfers, USC's had 19.  Stanford probably had about 25 transfer into the entire university.

The transfer pool now makes it less necessary that a coach be a great recruiter or developer of talent, unless by "recruiting" you mean convincing a player who has been recruited and developed by someone else to come to your team instead.

As of Wednesday, 1,738 first-year students and 47 transfer students are matriculating at Stanford.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/09...re-engage/

USC and Oregon both have new coaches this year which probably boosts their transfer in (and out) numbers.  Will be interesting to see if programs have 15-20 transfers a year every year.