David Shaw Resigns at Stanford

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As I said in a thread earlier this season, Shaw was one of the most overrated HC’s in college football. Losing seasons 4 out of the last 5 years with 3-8 in 2022 being one of them.

Oh yeah, I remember some of you clowns defending the guy. He lived off following Harbaugh until the shine faded.
 
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brockytop said:
As I said in a thread earlier this season, Shaw was one of the most overrated HC’s in college football. Losing seasons 4 out of the last 5 years with 3-8 in 2022 being one of them.

Oh yeah, I remember some of you clowns defending the guy. He lived off following Harbaugh until the shine faded.
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96-54 as a head coach and eight straight winning seasons...

I'm not sure how "overrated" is defined in your world, but I'm not sure Shaw fits that bill in most normal people.
 
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Grand Vol said:
96-54 as a head coach and eight straight winning seasons...

I'm not sure how "overrated" is defined in your world, but I'm not sure Shaw fits that bill in most normal people.
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The guy won 14 of 42 games the last four years. That’s how I define being overrated. Hell, he knew himself it was time to bail Even though you apparently don’t.
 
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Well, gotta admit-the story about the hire is the first time I have heard of Troy Taylor.

I wish them well, but hiring an FCS coach rarely brings much success to a P5 program
 
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stolitonic said:
They already hired an FCS guy from Sacramento State.
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Stanford went all-out in its coaching search to prove unequivocally that it doesn’t give a damn about football. Maybe they should have just axed the program altogether.
 
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Vol423 said:
Stanford went all-out in its coaching search to prove unequivocally that it doesn’t give a damn about football. Maybe they should have just axed the program altogether.
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Why? Taylor is very highly regarded. He’s been an offensive coordinator in the Pac 12 at Utah. He took over a program that had never been to the FCS playoffs before and made it all three years that they were eligible to go.
 
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Vol423 said:
Stanford went all-out in its coaching search to prove unequivocally that it doesn’t give a damn about football. Maybe they should have just axed the program altogether.
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I mean they are kind in a rough spot. Stanford is basically the P12 version of Vandy. Even more selective than Vandy actually.

The fact that they were consistently respectable for over a decade is somewhat impressive.

Sometimes their band is annoying as hell, but I like to see the nerds do well occasionally (Vandy excluded of course).
 
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Boston Vol said:
Why? Taylor is very highly regarded. He’s been an offensive coordinator in the Pac 12 at Utah. He took over a program that had never been to the FCS playoffs before and made it all three years that they were eligible to go.
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Yeah I’m not sure who they could have hired better. Really diverse offense too
 
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Jim Harbaugh was an FCS coach when Stanford hired him, so there’s some track record of them doing this. Kansas State hired their coach from FCS and seems to be working for them thus far. Probably, the most successful examples I can think of are Frank Beamer to VaTech, Jim Tressel to OSU, and Terry Bowden to Auburn. Not the same kind of success but Bobby Johnson went to Vandy and did something nobody had done for over a quarter century.
 
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stolitonic said:
Well, gotta admit-the story about the hire is the first time I have heard of Troy Taylor.

I wish them well, but hiring an FCS coach rarely brings much success to a P5 program
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Other than Sacramento State being a highly successfule FCS program under his leadership.
 
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brockytop said:
As I said in a thread earlier this season, Shaw was one of the most overrated HC’s in college football. Losing seasons 4 out of the last 5 years with 3-8 in 2022 being one of them.

Oh yeah, I remember some of you clowns defending the guy. He lived off following Harbaugh until the shine faded.
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He obviously struggled badly 3 out of the last 4 seasons, but to say he lived off of Harbaugh is just factually incorrect. It isn't like he was good only for his first couple of years and then fell off a cliff.

Stanford won at least 10 games in his 5th and 6th seasons and finished ranked in his 7th season, well after all of Harbaugh's guys were gone. The 2015 season was probably their best season in 75 years.
 
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