Stanford

[caneingville]

Have you ever seen their tailgates?

 

[bdcane4eva]

They invest in AI and quantum... not football. There's no money in it for them giving it away to college fb players..cmon now.

 

[P-Tizzle]

Just curious. If you look at the number of billionaires that are Stanford grads, what’s keeping them from going beast mode in NIL?

Phil Knight
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Tiger Woods
Peter Thiel
Steve Balmer
Reed Hastings
Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Azim Premji

you lost me at Phil Knight.

 

[Canesfan1899]

Tiger’s notoriously cheap. Makes Warren Sapp look like a big tipper.

Well most servers were getting his tip.

 

[JHallCanes]

They don't care about football?

That was efficient

 

[TomAce]

Stanford is an academic institution first & foremost.

Everything else is second.

If they happen to be good at Sports every once in a while so be it, but the #1 priority at Stanford is being an Elite academic enterprise above all else.

This has also caused them to lose some of their own graduate players because some of them weren’t accepted into the Stanford graduate school. They have had to enroll at a different school for their grad years.

 

[Calinative]

Well it hurts when the one guy on that list that cares about football is pumping up a different program lol. If Phil Knight chose to invest in Stanford athletics instead of Oregon, they'd be the most dominant University in human history in every category, not even gunna lie.

The best chance Stanford Football has at getting any of those names to donate for athletics, is the exact same way Michigan got Underwood - the wife or like child of one of those billionaires actually cares about football and presses them to make a contribution. They're more likely to contribute to building regardless.

 

[Applecane]

Duke is an Ivy-level school and has an elite hoops program. It can be done.

 

[TemplarCane]

Stanford is an academic institution first & foremost.

Everything else is second.

If they happen to be good at Sports every once in a while so be it, but the #1 priority at Stanford is being an Elite academic enterprise above all else.

They would rather take over the world than take over college sports.

#priorities

 

[Calinative]

Duke is an Ivy-level school and has an elite hoops program. It can be done.

Duke is much closer to ND and like UCLA than Stanford though. Just very different honestly.

 

[IbzRlz]

Phil Knight is all Oregon. The rest couldn't care less about sports

 

[MedleyCane]

Duke is an Ivy-level school and has an elite hoops program. It can be done.

Duke is located in an intense college hoops region, and they have many students and alums from the northeast who may be nerds but are basketball geeks, nonetheless.
Also, it takes less amount of student-athletes to build a powerhouse basketball program vs football.

 

[Jiren]

Nephew plays at Stanford. Try not to bash coaches to kids who they’re playing for because at the end of the day they gotta be coached up. But they’re so bad. One coach ironically he liked was Dnofrio. Said he was tough, no nonsense. Held kids accountable. Shaw tried telling them that they weren’t gonna do NIL when that first got passed LOL. DCs have been atrocious to put it nicely.

 

[Jiren]

And down the hall from him freshman year was Bill Gates daughter lol

 

[Jiren]

Well it hurts when the one guy on that list that cares about football is pumping up a different program lol. If Phil Knight chose to invest in Stanford athletics instead of Oregon, they'd be the most dominant University in human history in every category, not even gunna lie.

The best chance Stanford Football has at getting any of those names to donate for athletics, is the exact same way Michigan got Underwood - the wife or like child of one of those billionaires actually cares about football and presses them to make a contribution. They're more likely to contribute to building regardless.

They are dominant in every sport besides football lol lot of national championships

 

[DubCaliCane]

If I was a billionaire, we’d have TWO stadiums on campus.

But I suck with money.

 

[DLINKDAGR8]

I mentioned Stanford instead of Harvard since it hasn’t been that long since Stanford had a good run under Harbaugh and Shaw.
As well, if they didn’t have some interest in staying relevant in football, they could have gone the Wash St and Oregon State route rather than joining the ACC.

I believe Cal & Stanford joined the conference because the ACC is like the Ivy leauge of Major DI Athletics

 

[Calinative]

They are dominant in every sport besides football lol lot of national championships

Yes, but football is the largest American sport.

 

[MedleyCane]

I believe Cal & Stanford joined the conference because the ACC is like the Ivy leauge of Major DI Athletics

Yeap.
Schools also look at joining conferences where member schools share similar academic profiles which is key in joint research, etc.

 

[SFbayCane]

I lived and worked in the Silicon Valley for the past 20+ years and know many well connected Stanford alums. To a person, they're all weirdos. People in the Bay Area are so disconnected from normal society it's beyond imagination, even more so among high net worth types. They are all Godless globalists who've accepted the programming. There is no hope for these people.

Moving back to Florida after 30 years in NorCal was a life saving event for me. It's beyond comprehension just how different life in normal America is from life in NorCal.

Very few will understand what I just posted but it goes to the heart of OP's question.