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Stanford is killing it.
tvoie
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Seems like they have gotten five or six 4 stars in the last week.
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Kind of the Black Les Miles
4 stars - 1
3 stars - 8
2 stars - 2
He recruits well and seems to get his guys the right roids. I don't think he's a good game day coach or play caller.
Only 3 kids from Cali and 5 total from PAC territory (7 if you count Hawaii) compared to 7 CA/11 PAC out of 22 in 2015 and 5 CA/12 PAC out of 20 in 2014
2016 kids also hail from:
-6 from Texas
-5 from the Northeast
-4 from the Southeast
-2 from the Midwest
Also lots of big bodies as usual:
-13 out of 25 recruits are on the lines counting their big TEs.
-All 3 WRs listed at 6'3.5" or taller.
I don't care if UCLA or USC has more flashy top-100 playmakers. This is the best recruiting class in the Pac and Stanford will be the team to beat in conference for years to come. Our best chance to unseat them is 2016 since they will be YOUNG.
They have an identity. They are getting their pick of players nationwide that fit that identity. They are kicking ass.
However I think its funny that everyone is sucking Shaw's dick over a class that averages 3.28 stars but if Petersen had just came off a Rose Bowl victory and pulled the same type of class everyone would be destroying him. I'm still not a huge believer in Shaw as a head coach but I have to give him the benefit of the doubt re: recruiting given their on the field performance during his time as HC.
54-14, 36-9. 4 top ten finishes in 5 years. What can he do to make you a believer? Winners win. Shaw has proven everyone wrong- he is a winner.
Shaw had Luck for one year. He had fricking Josh Nunes (who?) and Kevin Hogan the last four. Hogan almost grad transferred because it was questionable whether he would keep his job as a redshirt senior. Not an elite qb to say the least.
Saying that a coach "beats who he is supposed to beat" is basically a message board admission that you have no real analysis but you know that said coach hasn't won a national championship so its probably a safe but empty claim.
However Shaw is actually 6-1 straight up as an underdog of 3+ points. 4-1 as an underdog of more than a TD. Let that sink in for a minute. (If you want to bring CCCP into the discussion he is 2-8 as an underdog of 3+ points thus far. And oh, btw, that 2012 Badgers team had just put up 70 on Nebraska in the BIGCCG and hadn't lost by more than 3 points in regulation all year. Not a pushover.)
And He's a LOT better coach than Les Miles.
The record is what it is though. It's pretty easy to make a case why he's a good coach.
But the ease of recruiting Louisiana athletes to LSU makes up for a lot of stupid.
That is Shaw now. Oregon has done better with their conference champs by losing in the final game. At least they got there!!!111!!!! But it took Oregon time to get to that point.
In arguing against fucktards like Ty and Sark we do sometimes go a bit over the top on good to great winning coaches by saying they suck. You don't want to settle and you don't want 20 years of 9-3 just because you had 15 years of Owen 12 to 7-6.
But Shaw or Miles or hopefully Petermen would be welcome here. We'd bitch and moan when they lost but overall we would regain some of our Husky Arrogance.
James would lose to fucking Navy and go to the Rose Bowl. It drove me crazy. Two straight Apple Cup losses stopped us from 4 Rose Bowls in a row.
You get pissed. You lash out. Then you get excited for the next season. Trust me, its a lot better than the shit show of this century