Rooting for the Vols, but have to admit, Stanford is one of the top 3 universities in the US. Medicine, science, they're at the top of the pyramid.
So what if the tree is weird? The weirdness is kind of cool.
We flew a departure route out of Moffet, when we were flying tactical missions on the Soviet boomers, that went over the Stanford campus. People do not realize what a huge campus it is, owning miles of undeveloped land. On a remote section of campus they have their own linear accelerator for nuclear research. It stretches for what looked like a mile. Now that is a well-funded university.