Stanford Football 2016: Chryst on a Cracker

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Is he any good? Does it matter who hands off to McCaffrey 35 times a game? Will the band get in trouble?

I'm feeling good about this thread. Like, might crack double digit posts kind of good.
 

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Is he any good? Does it matter who hands off to McCaffrey 35 times a game? Will the band get in trouble?

I'm feeling good about this thread. Like, might crack double digit posts kind of good.
Is Chryst even going to be the QB? Apparently Burns looked pretty good this spring.

The schedule is kind of brutal. At UCLA, ND, Oregon, UDub, Cal--you could easily see a very good team have 3 or 4 losses.
 

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I have no idea. I thought Chryst was a funnier name than Burns, so... I went with him.

I also thought this t-shirt was funny, because the guy who inspired it seemed like such a dbag.

 

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I guess we have to go with Feel the Burns because Burns is going to be the starting QB.

Number 8 preseason--pretty, pretty good. I doubt they end up that high given the schedule but here's hoping.
 

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I don't think Shaw is a very good coach. And yet, he's the third winningest coach in Stanford history... About to tie for second. So I guess I'm a dumb shit.

Are we still going to see Chryst periodically? Seems like that battle should have been decided.
 

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I don't think Shaw is a very good coach. And yet, he's the third winningest coach in Stanford history... About to tie for second. So I guess I'm a dumb shit.

Are we still going to see Chryst periodically? Seems like that battle should have been decided.
Recruiting well and running a sound consistent program more than makes up for the occasional idiotic wildcat playcall.
 

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I don't think Shaw is a very good coach. And yet, he's the third winningest coach in Stanford history... About to tie for second. So I guess I'm a dumb shit.

Are we still going to see Chryst periodically? Seems like that battle should have been decided.
I'm fascinated by this post. I think he has done a great job with Xs and Os in the games I have watched and has had some shit luck in some of his tough losses. Why do you think poorly of him?
 

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It's the play calling really. But also little discipline stuff like the block in the back on the called back TD, ten yards from the play. And then when KSU comes within a score late in the fourth, like... Why not have more than three guys within twelve yards of the kicker in case they kick onside? Shaw is like nah I'm good, fuck the hands team.

And yet the record is the record. Shelterdog is right I think. 75% of the college game is recruiting and he's getting it done there.
 

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I don't think Shaw is a very good coach. And yet, he's the third winningest coach in Stanford history... About to tie for second. So I guess I'm a dumb shit.

Are we still going to see Chryst periodically? Seems like that battle should have been decided.
This is silly. Shaw is a fantastic coach. I agree that his play-calling and in-game management can be questionable at times, but that's such a small part of what a coach does, and he's top notch at all the rest of it. He recruits well, his recruits develop and improve once they get to Palo Alto, his teams are just about always well prepared, and they do a lot of unusual/innovative stuff schematically with the TEs and FBs that is rare in college football. He also appears, at least on the outside, to run a clean program (although who knows). He's turned Stanford into a perennial top-10 team despite the significant admissions restrictions and lack of national profile (Stanford will never be USC or Ohio State or Alabama). 3 Rose Bowls in 4 years is a hugely impressive accomplishment anywhere, let alone at Stanford. Stanford is lucky that Shaw is a Stanford guy through and through (he's an alum) and that the Bay Area is a great place to live, or he'd probably have been poached by a bigger school or the NFL already, which may still happen if the right NFL situation opens up.

It hasn't been that long since Buddy Teevens was coaching Stanford and went 1-11.
 

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Pretty much. Being caught totally unaware in an obvious onside kick situation seemed glaring, but if you are what your record says you are, then he's a very, very good coach.

The playcalling sometimes drives me nuts, though.
 

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Here's the thing though: U$C is literally everything that is wrong with everything and I hate and fear them with a Nixonian level of paranoia and intensity.
 

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Very glad to have been in the air for almost all of that one. I assume it was as bad as the box score looked?
 

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I missed most of that game and thank God because what little I saw was poop on a stick. Taken out to the woodshed.
 

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We're totally back! To running a mostly high school offense against a terrible Beavs team, but whatever.

They obviously have a huge talent advantage over Rice, but they could conceivably go 0-3 to finish if they get squashed by Oregon (unlikely) and Cal (definitely possible). I think they beat the Ducks, lose to Cal, and beat Rice, go to a garbage bowl. This o-line is really demonstrably worse than last year, he said, giving a penetrating glimpse into the obvious.
 

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Beat it, Cal. For a disappointing season, they still have a shot at ten wins. I never actually thought they were the seventh best team in the country, not with that O line and unsettled QB situation. A mid tier bowl is not a disaster.
 

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It's hard to be pumped. Although, I guess if you told me in the beginning of the year that we'd be playing Stanford in a bowl game I'd be pretty excited.
 

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