Stanford's continued success is a black eye for the conference IMO

Gladstone

When your league's most consistent team:

- plays in an empty stadium every week
- has fans that absolutely can't care less about winning, and > 50% of the alumni either don't know who the players are or dislike them because they sag their degree value down (shoutout to the harbaugh-instituted Science, Technology, and Society major. go get 'em, fozzy)
- has a ceiling that guarantees they won't ever make the CFP
- has easily the most electrifying player since reggie bush (mccaffery) yet can't even sniff the heisman

This precludes anyone east of the Mississippi from taking the league seriously. It's a joke. I hope Cristobal defies the odds and replaces Stanford in the top north tier along with us. Petersen needs to finish what he started in 2016. Or better yet, Shaw should go to the NFL. He's a terrific coach whose teams always play physical, borderline dirty football. This was @TierbsHsotBoobs ' stupidest take.

FUCK STANFORD.

YellowSnow

You can't discount the value of a Stanford education.

PurpleJ

Which part of this gibberish is you and which part is baabs? I can't tell.

Fact is that we could make Stanford irrelevant by beating them on the field and actually winning our big time bowl games against competition from other conferences. Same goes for USC.

If you are saying that a major reason this conference sucks because it just doesn't MEAN MORE like the SEC/ACC, then that is correct. Our fanbases suck and that is a reflection of the west coast populace. That might not be such a big deal if we had teams that improved the perception of the conference by winning big games. That probably won't change the fact that the south and midwest seem to care a lot more about college football, but it would be a start.

Dennis_DeYoung

Stanford being good in football is like giving Todd Graham a first edition copy of War & Peace.

RaceBannon

@Dennis_DeYoung has a great post on the recruitng bored where he gives some great excuses about no 5 stars coming out west lol

That shows what a moron Helton is. USC is the only Pac school that EXPECTS 5 stars

We could rule the world with 4 stars

And we better crush Stanford under our boots

PurpleJ

And yet, USC is the defending conference champion.

PAC-12 PRIDE

huskyhooligan

God I hate Stanford.

Swaye

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Stanford being good in football is like giving Todd Graham a first edition copy of War & Peace.

I made water in my pants.

Pitchfork51

I absolutely believe stanford being good is the number one issue with the pac perception.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Gladstone said:

When your league's most consistent team:

- plays in an empty stadium every week
- has fans that absolutely can't care less about winning, and > 50% of the alumni either don't know who the players are or dislike them because they sag their degree value down (shoutout to the harbaugh-instituted Science, Technology, and Society major. go get 'em, fozzy)
- has a ceiling that guarantees they won't ever make the CFP
- has easily the most electrifying player since reggie bush (mccaffery) yet can't even sniff the heisman

This precludes anyone east of the Mississippi from taking the league seriously. It's a joke. I hope Cristobal defies the odds and replaces Stanford in the top north tier along with us. Petersen needs to finish what he started in 2016. Or better yet, Shaw should go to the NFL. He's a terrific coach whose teams always play physical, borderline dirty football. This was @TierbsHsotBoobs ' stupidest take.

FUCK STANFORD.

I watched the Stanford vs. Notre Dame game last year at a bar and was talking to a Stanford fan. At one point, Dalton Schultz catches a pass and the Stanford guy says, "Schultz? He must be knew here. I've never heard of him."

haie

If I’m Pete I make myself and all of the coaches rewatch the Stanford game from last year every fucking day until our next game with them.

It’s the only 2017 game I’ve rewatched multiple times.

Joey

This was the lone away game I went to last year. Never been there before but heard about how pathetic it is, its even more pathetic than advertised. A couple times I just yelled "yeah" really loud and got told to be quiet. That place is embarrassing. Imagine how much of a powerhouse that program could really be if the fans got at least 50% behind it.

CaptainPJ

haie said:

If I’m Pete I make myself and all of the coaches rewatch the Stanford game from last year every fucking day until our next game with them.

It’s the only 2017 game I’ve rewatched multiple times.

Could they fast forward thru the truck race, or would they have to grind that out, as well?

oregonblitzkrieg

Stanford is the only SEC team in the PAC. Of course they are going to be successful. Every fucking year.

Pitchfork51

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Stanford is the only SEC team in the PAC. Of course they are going to be successful. Every fucking year.

A bunch of white guys who aren't total idiots really screams sec to me.

Mosster47

Pitchfork51 said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Stanford is the only SEC team in the PAC. Of course they are going to be successful. Every fucking year.

A bunch of white guys who aren't total idiots really screams sec to me.

Yeah, Stanford is whiter than Vandy.

dnc

Pitchfork51 said:

I absolutely believe stanford being good is the number one issue with the pac perception.

The Pac sucking is the number one issue with pac perception.

GreenRiverGatorz

Every conference has a Stanford (except for the Big 12, they're all shit schools). Vandy, Northwestern, and Duke are all there to make the occasional conferene title run and boost their conference's prestige by showing that they really do care about academics. It's a massive failure by every Pac-12 school for letting our token nerd school ascend as high as they have. We were well on our way to sending them tumbling back to the mediocre dregs where they came from, but Browning decided to shit his pants once again and give them a second chance at life that they don't deserve.

dflea

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Stanford is the only SEC team in the PAC. Of course they are going to be successful. Every fucking year.

Holy fuck. stfu

PurpleJ

Don't SEC teams usually fill their stadiums?

Pitchfork51

I still can't believe they are good.

My freshman and sophomore year we beat them like 42-0 and 42-3.

I would have never believed you if you told me a few years later they'd be the best team in the pac