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Stanford Cardinal (official thread)

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scarletmike said:
He may have wanted to check his own roster before making that statement. I think I counted about 15 on the roster from southeastern states (NC south and west to LA). A couple from NC, a couple from LA, a few from FL, and a couple from GA.
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And see here is where people are projecting. He has players from Florida he has to be lying!!!

Again people are making a lot of assumptions here about what he was referring to specifically. Yes like it or not Stanford recruits very differently than most schools. Tennessee gives out more offers in a day than Stanford does all year (OMG slight exaggeration, start losing your shit again people!).

BuckeyeNation27 said:
OK Captain Semantics.
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If there are two players from North Carolina, Georgia & Louisiana each that comes out to .20 or .25 per recruiting class. That's a good bit less than one.

Still a lot of people are reading "might be one" with an added "if they're lucky" when it's far more likely to mean "might be as few as one".
 
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Muck said:
If there are two players from North Carolina, Georgia & Louisiana each that comes out to .20 or .25 per recruiting class. That's a good bit less than one.
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Well, you know what they say, "two tenths of a lie is still 8 tenths of the truth, and a beer half empty won't be half full for long if Kyle's anywhere near it"
 
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The entire quote for completeness...

"I have no opinion," Shaw said. "It's never affected us. People do them, and people don't do them. We've got great attendance at the camps we have here -- we get a lot of guys we want to come....But I didn't like the way that a lot of people have put this as the SEC against Jim Harbaugh. That's not what this has been about. Conference by conference, this has been going on for three plus years, since Jim was with the 49ers. This has been a battle. As a conference, we had a long discussion three years ago about what we were going to do about satellite camps....I'm great with whatever college football says, because it doesn't affect us. It doesn't make sense for us to go hold a camp some place where there might be one person in the entire state that's eligible to get into Stanford."
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matcar said:
Really doesn't sound like a douchey quote at all. No need to blast this guy.
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There's no need to make it uppity and demeaning with the "can't qualify" generalization.

Accurately saying "they don't need it" can be accomplished without that assumption and insult.
 
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buckeyesin07 said:
Someone else's (not my) poor choice in words in an overzealous effort to defend Shaw's pointlessly pompous comment.
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Overzealous? You might want to re-examine who is making reaches to creatively interpret what was said.

Yes holding a camp in Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina is a very likely scenario where only one kid in the camp would pass admissions at Stanford. It's not pompous, it's true. Nor is explaining why Stanford doesn't utilize camps is pointless when asked a direct question about your view on the topic.

BUCKYLE said:
Are football players held to that same high admissions standard?
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Yes, athletes at Stanford have to meet the same minimum admission standard. That being said a football player is not competing against the general admission pool. By that I mean that a typical HS who meets the minimum standard is unlikely to get in because he is competing against kids whose qualifications are even higher.
 
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jwinslow said:
There's no need to make it uppity and demeaning with the "can't quality" generalization.

Accurately saying "they don't need it" can be accomplished without that assumption and insult.
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I suppose you are right that there's no need. But there's also no harm in that truth either. Folks always looking for something to find fault in the other guy. If our guy said it, he'd be a hero.
 
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