[tmswope]

Makes me wonder if USC gave him a "deadline" or something...

The other possibility is that Stanford\'s coaching change and DC vacancy prompted Sarao to look for a Plan B...and when he got to LA and saw Hollywood, the girls, how SC football players are treated, etc., Plan B became Plan A. If that\'s the case, then we have no shot.

This is what I\'m afraid of.  I tried to get a friend of mine to come to Stanford to play baseball with me.  But after he went down to Austin, got wined and dined, saw their facilities, saw the living quarters, and (perhaps, most importantly for this particular guy) hung out with some cleat chasers...then he realized that he didn\'t have to go to class because there are "tutors" who pretty much do everything for them if they want them to...he became a Longhorn and sort of forgot about Stanford.

[tmswope]

Makes me wonder if USC gave him a "deadline" or something...

The other possibility is that Stanford\'s coaching change and DC vacancy prompted Sarao to look for a Plan B...and when he got to LA and saw Hollywood, the girls, how SC football players are treated, etc., Plan B became Plan A. If that\'s the case, then we have no shot.

This is what I\'m afraid of.  I tried to get a friend of mine to come to Stanford to play baseball with me.  But after he went down to Austin, got wined and dined, saw their facilities, saw the living quarters, and (perhaps, most importantly for this particular guy) hung out with some cleat chasers...then he realized that he didn\'t have to go to class because there are "tutors" who pretty much do everything for them if they want them to...he became a Longhorn and sort of forgot about Stanford.