James Franklin. 1st African-American FBS coach to win 100 games
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The next closest guy is David Shaw - who was actually ahead of Franklin for a while, but Stanford has really dropped off the radar the last few years.
Shaw has 96 wins.
Not sure what has happened at Stanford. But the shine really has come off Shaw's star at this point.
They started to decline before Covid, so I agree.....not sure what happened. Too bad though - they had a pretty solid team/program for a while.
Stanford understands that it will have down years due to handicaps it faces with recruiting. However, four consecutive down years enters the realm of the unacceptable. Shaw gets a pass (to a certain degree) for Covid and being "family." He pissed a lot of that away by kicking an utterly meaningless FG in the waning seconds of the game against Cal last Saturday.
Did you ever wonder how the hell John Elway would have gotten a sniff from Stanford if his dad was not the coach at the time? I mean, I get he is a high ranking NFL Executive now.....but he is not on the same level as Luck academically.
Your question re John Elway is moot because his father, Jack, wasn't the coach a Stanford during the years John was there. He was at San Jose St,, which iirc beat Stanford at least twice, during John's years at The Farm. Took over in Palo Alto after John graduated.
Stanford makes major academic accommodations for athletes, though nothing like what other than a handful of others do. Without being a football player Luck probably doesn't get in. Keep in mind that Stanford only admits 4% of applicants (percentage was higher in both Elway's and Luck's days, but not above the low teens) and the vast majority of those applicants are self-selecting high academic achievers. But even with the accommodations Stanford makes, it's simply not going to admit a very high percentage of athletes that eventually line up for opposing teams. So when they miss out on a kid who is highly ranked athletically, they're moving further down the list than other schools have to.
If you know the story behind "We Are" it makes this all the more special. I know that we're all supposed to hate ourselves for the real and imagined issues of certain days gone by, but PSU has been at the tip of the spear in racial equality in college athletics for a very long time.
I would be proud, if I was allowed.
I would be proud, if I was allowed.
That's not the story behind "We Are" but your point remains a good one. The Wally Triplett story is a good one, it's just not the source of the "We Are" mantra.
See? I (we) even suck at knowing things about ourselves.
This is why Bob and I hate us soooo much!
This is why Bob and I hate us soooo much!
Um maybe because the guy who grew the program is now taking a team perhaps to the cfp for the second year?
Harbaugh quickly brought them to prominence ... in 4 years they went from 1-11 before he got there to 12-1 in the year he left ... but Shaw's been there for 12 years now, and they were 10-3 6 years after Harbaugh left. And still 9-4 8 years after. There's something else.
Stanford doesn’t play the portal game and my guess is they do very little with NIL. They’re way behind the times programmatically speaking.
Chip Kelly going to ucla and as well as Oregon and usc may have something to do with it as well. More competition to get good players.
1 and I visited Stanford and saw lucks last home game (lost to Oregon) it’s pretty damn spectacular
He would need to average 10 wins a year and coach until he was 81 to break Joe’s record. That’s only 31 more years!!!!
Meanwhile, Nick Saban is 71 and has 278 wins and would need to coach until he was 85 years old and average 10 wins a year.
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no one should coach past 70- Joe shouldn't have, either
Oregon had too much speed and sitting in the end zone we were surprised how wide O oline spreads were. Started our visits at UCLA then spent the weekend in San Fran with aunt Joanne and bob and also visited CAL CAL was nasty
Witness:
Oregon 53-30 Stanford (Nov 12, 2011) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Oregon Ducks vs. Stanford Cardinal NCAAF game, final score 53-30, from November 12, 2011 on ESPN.
www.espn.com
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Which was Luck's 3rd to last home game that year.Oregon had too much speed and sitting in the end zone we were surprised how wide O oline spreads were. Started our visits at UCLA then spent the weekend in San Fran with aunt Joanne and bob and also visited CAL CAL was nasty
Witness:
Oregon 53-30 Stanford (Nov 12, 2011) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Oregon Ducks vs. Stanford Cardinal NCAAF game, final score 53-30, from November 12, 2011 on ESPN.
CAL
Franklin might be the first East Stroudsburg State Univ. graduate who has the same last name as a founding father who won 100 FBS games.
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