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And in this era of schedule strength and conference reputation, you want to be in a strong conference rather than be the king of the weaklings.

It is not at all clear to me that we are in such an era - particularly the conference reputation part. Even if we were, Michigan is not in our conference. I di, however, agree his move to Michigan is mostly irrelevant to Stanford. 

CT- you don't think Harbaugh would want guys like Andrus Peat or Kyle Murphy

Of course he would, they are excellent football players. I don't think he would want them to sit down and discuss the philosophy of Kant or the implications of wave-particle duality. And, yes, of course if he and his program at Michigan would be intriguing; but I suppose we could always trot out his old quotations about the importance of academics at Michigan.

In general, for every top recruit there will be a tough competitor. One such competitor at a program we never play and rarely recruit successfully against is not the largest possible threat.

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And in this era of schedule strength and conference reputation, you want to be in a strong conference rather than be the king of the weaklings.

It is not at all clear to me that we are in such an era - particularly the conference reputation part. Even if we were, Michigan is not in our conference. I di, however, agree his move to Michigan is mostly irrelevant to Stanford. 

CT- you don't think Harbaugh would want guys like Andrus Peat or Kyle Murphy

Of course he would, they are excellent football players. I don't think he would want them to sit down and discuss the philosophy of Kant or the implications of wave-particle duality. And, yes, of course if he and his program at Michigan would be intriguing; but I suppose we could always trot out his old quotations about the importance of academics at Michigan.

In general, for every top recruit there will be a tough competitor. One such competitor at a program we never play and rarely recruit successfully against is not the largest possible threat.