[Spiny_Norman]

The latest edition of The Audible (Fox Sports' college football podcast) is mostly an interview with David Shaw.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...ast-031715

Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel start to talk about the interview and Stanford football at about the 6 minute mark.  The interview begins around the 19 minute mark.

Shaw talks about the virtual reality technology that we learned about last week in a separate Fox article.  New information - Shaw is an investor in the company.

There is some debrief of last season which covers ground that we have heard before from Coach Shaw.  There is a somewhat interesting discussion about Christian McCaffrey.  I also noted that the coaches study other offenses (especially spread offenses) to get ideas that can be incorporated into Stanford's approach. 

Once again, you will be so very impressed at David Shaw as a person and as a representative of Stanford. 

[Spiny_Norman]

The latest edition of The Audible (Fox Sports' college football podcast) is mostly an interview with David Shaw.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...ast-031715

Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel start to talk about the interview and Stanford football at about the 6 minute mark.  The interview begins around the 19 minute mark.

Shaw talks about the virtual reality technology that we learned about last week in a separate Fox article.  New information - Shaw is an investor in the company.

There is some debrief of last season which covers ground that we have heard before from Coach Shaw.  There is a somewhat interesting discussion about Christian McCaffrey.  I also noted that the coaches study other offenses (especially spread offenses) to get ideas that can be incorporated into Stanford's approach. 

Once again, you will be so very impressed at David Shaw as a person and as a representative of Stanford. 

[donkey687]

Interesting conflict of interest issue to navigate for Shaw. He is an investor in the company and will benefit financially if others use the technology. He is the coach of Stanford and is using it to generate a competitive advantage and Stanford could be better off if no one else used it.  Shaw would have gotten permission from Stanford to invest in a company and promote it the way he is doing which goes to show the kind of power and leverage Shaw has at Stanford these days (well deserved in my opinion that he has freedom power and leverage, but I am not sure I agree with his decision to promote this product).

[donkey687]

Interesting conflict of interest issue to navigate for Shaw. He is an investor in the company and will benefit financially if others use the technology. He is the coach of Stanford and is using it to generate a competitive advantage and Stanford could be better off if no one else used it.  Shaw would have gotten permission from Stanford to invest in a company and promote it the way he is doing which goes to show the kind of power and leverage Shaw has at Stanford these days (well deserved in my opinion that he has freedom power and leverage, but I am not sure I agree with his decision to promote this product).

[washingtonismoney]

I do hope Muir is thinking through these conflict-of-interest issues -- not that I'm disturbed by this particular instance of it. While Feldman's article argues that the VR tech used by this company is distinctive, I'm sure that's at best a momentary advantage. Someone would've invented something like it, and that technology would've spread. Might as well let Stanford students/coaches cash in.

I think there are some ancillary benefits here:
* a reputation for technological innovation in the football program might be a helpful recruiting advantage for players. ("We get all the newest, coolest stuff.") And knowing that the coach is a booster of such innovations means the inventors of the newest, coolest stuff will think Shaw first -- especially when you consider the legions of venture capitalists encamped on Sand Hill.

* also helps us pay Shaw less than a comparable coach of his record. 

[washingtonismoney]

I do hope Muir is thinking through these conflict-of-interest issues -- not that I'm disturbed by this particular instance of it. While Feldman's article argues that the VR tech used by this company is distinctive, I'm sure that's at best a momentary advantage. Someone would've invented something like it, and that technology would've spread. Might as well let Stanford students/coaches cash in.

I think there are some ancillary benefits here:
* a reputation for technological innovation in the football program might be a helpful recruiting advantage for players. ("We get all the newest, coolest stuff.") And knowing that the coach is a booster of such innovations means the inventors of the newest, coolest stuff will think Shaw first -- especially when you consider the legions of venture capitalists encamped on Sand Hill.

* also helps us pay Shaw less than a comparable coach of his record. 

[CTcard]

Does Stanford (or anybody else) have a policy on the conflict of interest in professors assigning their own textbooks to their classes? The only professor I'm aware of to consider the issue, Stanford's Bill Rivers (he taught in the Communications Department from the late 60s into the 90s), assigned his books, but rebated his royalty payment to any student who brought in a receipt.

A lot of places have policies - I don't know about Stanford.

Apparently in 1981 Stanford had no such policies. Here is an old Daily article on the topic.
http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/...124-01.2.7

[CTcard]

Does Stanford (or anybody else) have a policy on the conflict of interest in professors assigning their own textbooks to their classes? The only professor I'm aware of to consider the issue, Stanford's Bill Rivers (he taught in the Communications Department from the late 60s into the 90s), assigned his books, but rebated his royalty payment to any student who brought in a receipt.

A lot of places have policies - I don't know about Stanford.

Apparently in 1981 Stanford had no such policies. Here is an old Daily article on the topic.
http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/...124-01.2.7

[Bruce Wang]

Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

[Bruce Wang]

Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

[JohnR34231]

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...ast-031715


DS spends a lot of time talking about virtual reality. Obviously very impressed with CMac, both as an athlete and a leader. What he says (or maybe doesn't say) about Harbaugh coming back to college football is , well, "interesting".

[JohnR34231]

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...ast-031715


DS spends a lot of time talking about virtual reality. Obviously very impressed with CMac, both as an athlete and a leader. What he says (or maybe doesn't say) about Harbaugh coming back to college football is , well, "interesting".

[2 for 2028]

Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent USC visit the better.

[2 for 2028]

Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent USC visit the better.

[JohnR34231]

[quote author=Publius link=topic=11885.msg114917#msg114917 date=1426640924]
Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent U$€ visit the better.
[/quote]

KJ says each morning he wakes up thinking he wants to go somewhere else. When he is consistent in these thoughts (anybody's guess as to when that will be) he'll pull the trigger.

[JohnR34231]

[quote author=Publius link=topic=11885.msg114917#msg114917 date=1426640924]
Sounds like Stanford will get exclusive use of VR for at least a few seasons.  KJ Costello would have to be crazy not to come to The Farm to get access to this technology.

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent U$€ visit the better.
[/quote]

KJ says each morning he wakes up thinking he wants to go somewhere else. When he is consistent in these thoughts (anybody's guess as to when that will be) he'll pull the trigger.

[Extra Point]

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent U$€ visit the better.

... and the closer he is to being accepted by admissions the better.

[Extra Point]

Speaking of which, I wonder how he is coming along with his decision.  I would think that the farther away in time we get from his recent U$€ visit the better.

... and the closer he is to being accepted by admissions the better.