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Was about to write thisThey don't care about football?
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Was about to write thisThey don't care about football?
I get you. Someone mentioned Harvard which I am well acquainted with.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 on 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.
A lot easier to get 10 solid to elite guys in than it is to get 50-80 solid to elite guys. There's a reason why Duke has been mediocre at best, and outright bad in football for DECADES. You need far more bodies in football, which means you need to make a commitment.Duke is an Ivy-level school and has an elite hoops program. It can be done.
Totally agree with you and @SFbayCane. In particular, the comment about alternate universe. There is reality where 99.5% of us live. Then there is this make believe mental space where these folks spend their time arrogantly knowing better than the commonfolk. And you don’t dare disagree with them.I get you. Someone mentioned Harvard which I am well acquainted with.
My wife got her Masters from Harvard and sits on the board of one of the Harvard medical schools. At the graduation ceremony, which the key speaker was Julio Frenk, a year before he became President of UM, the ceremony was held in a large tent with large Harvard medical buildings on all sides. It was hotter than hades with no breeze.
They handed out Harvard branded water bottles which, I **** you not, had a disclaimer on the bottle stating and I paraphrase, that Harvard does not condone the use of plastic water bottles, which are a detriment to the environment, but is making an exception for the welfare of faculty and the student body.
These ******* elitists live in an alternate universe.
Precisely why I posted a video sampling their “tailgates” in this thread.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 on 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.
Some schools make athletic exceptions… Stanford does notDuke is an Ivy-level school and has an elite hoops program. It can be done.
its routine they are int he portal as fifth year players.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.
Because Stanford like Harvard or Yale Values Academics ,Medicine & Science much More than Sports.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
Hence the Denny's tripsTiger’s notoriously cheap. Makes Warren Sapp look like a big tipper.
Your money also goes further in Durham than Palo Alto. $1M NIL in Silicon Valley is peanuts compared to DurhamDuke is much closer to ND and like UCLA than Stanford though. Just very different honestly.
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 on 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.
Who cares?!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
That….is a good story right thereI get you. Someone mentioned Harvard which I am well acquainted with.
My wife got her Masters from Harvard and sits on the board of one of the Harvard medical schools. At the graduation ceremony, which the key speaker was Julio Frenk, a year before he became President of UM, the ceremony was held in a large tent with large Harvard medical buildings on all sides. It was hotter than hades with no breeze.
They handed out Harvard branded water bottles which, I **** you not, had a disclaimer on the bottle stating and I paraphrase, that Harvard does not condone the use of plastic water bottles, which are a detriment to the environment, but is making an exception for the welfare of faculty and the student body.
These ******* elitists live in an alternate universe.
Have you ever seen their tailgates?
Handing women millions to stay quiet after getting some strange isn’t cheap.Tiger’s notoriously cheap. Makes Warren Sapp look like a big tipper.
Well, the more ACC teams in the Top 20 and playoffs, the more respect the ACC gets and the more $$ UM gets.Who cares?!
Tiger’s notoriously cheap. Makes Warren Sapp look like a big tipper.
A lot easier to get 10 solid to elite guys in than it is to get 50-80 solid to elite guys. There's a reason why Duke has been mediocre at best, and outright bad in football for DECADES. You need far more bodies in football, which means you need to make a commitment.