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Just Haubaughian secretiveness?

Yes. But Harbaugh is starting to look rational on this issue compared to the current crop of coaches. Holding Josh Owens out for a year, telling reporters he might never play again, but refusing to say why, gave rise to a crop of really, really unpleasant rumors. Then you have Shaw's statement on Josh Nunes the other day -- something happened, something weird happened, something unknown in the history of Stanford sports happened...but we're not going to tell you what. And of course there was the attempt to cover up the suicide of a women's volleyball player.

I have no idea what's going on with Nunes, but I think you're painting with too broad a brush when you bring in the Owens and volleyball situations.  It wasn't too long before the basic facts of Josh's situation were what is generally referred to as a "poorly kept secret," and, in fact, it was apparently a medical condition that might have been career-ending but, fortunatley for him, resolved so that that didn't turn out to be the case.  And, I believe the formal non-disclosure was family-requested [although I may be wrong about that]. 

As for the volleyball situation, I do not believe there was any attempt -- at least by the coaches to whom you seem to be attributing it -- to "cover up" what happened [at least to the extent "cover up" is considered to be a pejorative term].  The coaches were sensitive to the family in an obviously tragic situation.  Seems eminently rational [as well as fundamentally right] under the circumstances.

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Just Haubaughian secretiveness?

Yes. But Harbaugh is starting to look rational on this issue compared to the current crop of coaches. Holding Josh Owens out for a year, telling reporters he might never play again, but refusing to say why, gave rise to a crop of really, really unpleasant rumors. Then you have Shaw's statement on Josh Nunes the other day -- something happened, something weird happened, something unknown in the history of Stanford sports happened...but we're not going to tell you what. And of course there was the attempt to cover up the suicide of a women's volleyball player.

I have no idea what's going on with Nunes, but I think you're painting with too broad a brush when you bring in the Owens and volleyball situations.  It wasn't too long before the basic facts of Josh's situation were what is generally referred to as a "poorly kept secret," and, in fact, it was apparently a medical condition that might have been career-ending but, fortunatley for him, resolved so that that didn't turn out to be the case.  And, I believe the formal non-disclosure was family-requested [although I may be wrong about that]. 

As for the volleyball situation, I do not believe there was any attempt -- at least by the coaches to whom you seem to be attributing it -- to "cover up" what happened [at least to the extent "cover up" is considered to be a pejorative term].  The coaches were sensitive to the family in an obviously tragic situation.  Seems eminently rational [as well as fundamentally right] under the circumstances.