Stanford is amazing. They don't get the best athletes in the country--but damn are they well coached--and it doesn't seem to matter who their coach is! They are all good! They have a good, smart coach; he leaves for a better job, they get somebody else and he's just as good or better. Personally, I'd like to see us ditch the read-option too and go back to straight kick-ass football with some good WRs, good TE and a freakin' bad A$$ fullback blocking for a TB. When we were a bad A$$ team, we had bad A$$ fullbacks--and, yea, a stout defense too. Job one is to freakin' get a MUCH better defense.