It seems like both Stanford and Cal are at a fork in the road.
With NIL and focus on enhancing the football culture even more at traditional power schools it seems like the schools in the Bay Area are being left behind. Both campuses have had years to pretend that athletics were important but have let their fanbases shrivel whilst they cashed revenue-sharing checks from TV money which in effect, underwrote both the revenue sports and the non-revenue sports.
But the administrations of both schools by their actions have avoided giving anything more than lukewarm support to their athletic departments which makes the goal of "winning" more difficult, or even actively eschewed at places like Cal and Stanford with their academic traditions.
Even the value of a degree from either institution is increasingly going to be minimized when compared with NIL money, so that recruiting selling point becomes much weaker.
In effect, since the priority is not about winning but about something else is that an approach that can even be sustained? Without the guaranteed TV money neither program would be tenable, especially Cal, which lacks the enormous endowment of Stanford.
Stanford is so opaque about their football program that it genuinely is a challenge to discern between stepped down and fired. I don't look forward to them being good again if they make a good hire.
Are you listening Mark Fox?
Wilcox?
AD Knowlton?
Do the honorable thing.
So is Ron Gould available?
It seems like both Stanford and Cal are at a fork in the road.
With NIL and focus on enhancing the football culture even more at traditional power schools it seems like the schools in the Bay Area are being left behind. Both campuses have had years to pretend that athletics were important but have let their fanbases shrivel whilst they cashed revenue-sharing checks from TV money which in effect, underwrote both the revenue sports and the non-revenue sports.
But the administrations of both schools by their actions have avoided giving anything more than lukewarm support to their athletic departments which makes the goal of "winning" more difficult, or even actively eschewed at places like Cal and Stanford with their academic traditions.
Even the value of a degree from either institution is increasingly going to be minimized when compared with NIL money, so that recruiting selling point becomes much weaker.
In effect, since the priority is not about winning but about something else is that an approach that can even be sustained? Without the guaranteed TV money neither program would be tenable, especially Cal, which lacks the enormous endowment of Stanford.
Might they be interested in Wilcox? On a more serious note, I read that Willie Taggart got fired from FAU and he might be a fit.
Troy Taylor to furd would be devastating on so many levels.
While Cal is busy letting Wilcox try reboot 3.0 and Wilcox is offering Troy Taylor the OC position, Stanford is going to hire Troy Taylor as their HC.
Who is 'furds OL coach? He seems pretty good and has recruited some good OL.
Wow. Oregon OC vacancy. Stanford vacancy. Colorado vacancy. ASU vacancies.
Does not give me hope for a home run OC hire…
Stanford is so opaque about their football program that it genuinely is a challenge to discern between stepped down and fired. I don't look forward to them being good again if they make a good hire.