[jacket3ree]

I would just drop football. . . . High level football is no longer consistent with Stanford’s values.

I'm not sure what Stanford's values are anymore, except administrative excess and granite and sandstone edifices . . . .

Apparently shoddy research and zero fun.

Right, however righteous Stanford's indignation will be, no one will care.  Mick might have the insight here. Stanford could turn into U Chicago pretty quickly, but without fissionable material under the bleachers.  Or something like that. Chicago never resonated as anything to me. I've heard of it, but whatever.  Because they don't go to bowl games! (Yeah, yeah; I've heard of MIT. Almost went there, but decided to come west partly because of the Pac 10, because four years down under (the Mason-Dixon Line) had me hooked on college football and basketball. Hey, I did get 40 years out of it.

Honestly, when this calms down, The remnants of the Pac will band together and craft the strongest west coast conference possible. And it will be a Group of X conference. What a sad turn of events.  I think college football is on the path to implosion.  A weak sauce version of the NFL. How is that sustainable?

[jacket3ree]

I would just drop football. . . . High level football is no longer consistent with Stanford’s values.

I'm not sure what Stanford's values are anymore, except administrative excess and granite and sandstone edifices . . . .

Apparently shoddy research and zero fun.

Right, however righteous Stanford's indignation will be, no one will care.  Mick might have the insight here. Stanford could turn into U Chicago pretty quickly, but without fissionable material under the bleachers.  Or something like that. Chicago never resonated as anything to me. I've heard of it, but whatever.  Because they don't go to bowl games! (Yeah, yeah; I've heard of MIT. Almost went there, but decided to come west partly because of the Pac 10, because four years down under (the Mason-Dixon Line) had me hooked on college football and basketball. Hey, I did get 40 years out of it.

Honestly, when this calms down, The remnants of the Pac will band together and craft the strongest west coast conference possible. And it will be a Group of X conference. What a sad turn of events.  I think college football is on the path to implosion.  A weak sauce version of the NFL. How is that sustainable?