12-01-2014, 09:08 AM
I have a friend with an Alfa Romeo vintage racer. Nice little car that runs up to its potential on a good day. But he and(sometimes we) end up cursing and fiddling when one or more of the sparkplugs foul. Some days it runs great. Then mysteriously, sometimes in mid race, it doesn't...and then mysteriously it's back on again.
This oh-so cute analogy applies to Stanford football. I don't see how Harbaugh-ball at Stanford gets a black eye when we never know which Kevin Hogan is going to show up. Neither do we know whether Shaw/Bloomgren will make the right calls, or get the democratic impulse and stick in Seal or Sanders at RB, or whether the OL continues its oh-so gradual improvement or have a day of lapses that make Hogan look like a HS QB.
I for one will love Harbaugh for what he's done for us. Don't care a flip about his 49er success or failure. He seems best at taking underperformers and getting them up and headed in the right direction...though I wouldn't wish the Raiders on him for any amount of money. But his ego will take him where it will. Our path is Shaw, which is a different challenge altogether.
This oh-so cute analogy applies to Stanford football. I don't see how Harbaugh-ball at Stanford gets a black eye when we never know which Kevin Hogan is going to show up. Neither do we know whether Shaw/Bloomgren will make the right calls, or get the democratic impulse and stick in Seal or Sanders at RB, or whether the OL continues its oh-so gradual improvement or have a day of lapses that make Hogan look like a HS QB.
I for one will love Harbaugh for what he's done for us. Don't care a flip about his 49er success or failure. He seems best at taking underperformers and getting them up and headed in the right direction...though I wouldn't wish the Raiders on him for any amount of money. But his ego will take him where it will. Our path is Shaw, which is a different challenge altogether.