(11-27-2022 02:14 PM)Poster Wrote: (11-27-2022 02:08 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote: (11-27-2022 01:18 PM)Poster Wrote: "Resignation" to avoid getting fired.
You do not understand Stanford. They were not going to fire him. He is a very good football coach, but the college game is changing, and Stanford needs to find a way to change and still keep their core values. Stanford is not involved in the transfer portal, and they need to do a better job of marketing NIL opportunities. You can't live off of four-year recruits anymore.
Shaw was a player and an assistant coach at Stanford before becoming head coach. He was the winningest head coach in Stanford history at 96-54 and he won three Pac-12 titles and had three Rose Bowl appearances. The resignation is more about Shaw. I don't think he liked the changes going on in college football.
Well, you can believe what you want.
Very few coaches survive consecutive 3-9 seasons.
More like, you can believe what you want. Stanford is different. Below are excerpts of Shaw speaking at the 2022 Pac-12 Media Day:
http://asaptext.com/asap_media/media/107...123261.pdf
Shaw on the transfer portal: "The people that get into Stanford typically stay at Stanford. We want to play high-level football, we want to compete for championships, as we've done, and at the same time we want high-level degrees. We want our people going to the NFL, and also we want our people going to law school,business school, starting their own companies."
"For us, just coming and going, jumping on and off of rosters at different places doesn't really fit who we recruit."
Shaw on NIL: "The people that we recruit, the people that want to be at Stanford are long-term thinkers. They don't think about short-term money; they think about long-term money. The money that exchanges hands for people to make decisions hasn't really affected us. We want our people leaving Stanford and talking about doing great things and big things."
"I'll take the comparison between cash in hand right now and a Stanford degree 20 years later, and I know which one is going to be more valuable. The people we recruit understand that."
Shaw on the importance of being a student-athlete: "Now, I want our young people to take advantage of their opportunities through NIL and through other opportunities. I think there are a lot of different things that we can continue to do to help our student-athletes through health and safety, through, yes, other monetary avenues which I think would be outstanding to help our young people."
"At the same time, I don't want to hire and fire college athletes. I want to bring them in, I want them to be students. They're 18, 19 years old, 20 years old. I want to them to enjoy college. I don't want them to be professionals. I don't want that to change, that experience to change. I want them to be on our campus, be college kids, stay up playing video games at 2:00 in the morning in the dorms. I want them to have those experiences and then leave us and become professionals in whatever their chosen profession."