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re: What does Stanford's recent football success say about other PAC teams?
Posted on 8/12/13 at 8:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 8/12/13 at 8:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
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hiring the possible 2nd best football coach on earth and having him build your program helps
This more than anything else. Stanford was absolute garbage before Harbaugh showed up. It also doesn't hurt that other programs in the conference have imploded relatively recently and are trying to rebuild at the moment.
As for endowments, which are really used more for academic and research purposes, there are plenty of other schools with very large endowments while having under-performing football programs. Duke, UVA, Rice, Vandy, Minnesota, UNC, etc. all have top-30 endowments but are hardly considered traditional football powerhouses.
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Posted on 8/12/13 at 9:44 pm to OFWHAP
Let me clarify.
Stanford has the largest ATHLETIC endowment in the country.
Their coaching positions are named in a manner similar to department chairs for academic departments, and funding comes from the athletic endowment.
And they weren't absolute garbage prior to Harbaugh. They were going through a dry spell.
Edit for correction:
I forgot about their decision to go to the Buddy System after Ty (who actually had a lot of success there...). They could have called me about the perils of hiring Buddy Teevens as a coach.
Stanford has the largest ATHLETIC endowment in the country.
Their coaching positions are named in a manner similar to department chairs for academic departments, and funding comes from the athletic endowment.
And they weren't absolute garbage prior to Harbaugh. They were going through a dry spell.
Edit for correction:
I forgot about their decision to go to the Buddy System after Ty (who actually had a lot of success there...). They could have called me about the perils of hiring Buddy Teevens as a coach.
This post was edited on 8/12/13 at 9:48 pm
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