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71 sats \ 15 replies \ @gmd 28 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: Are the TransferPortal and NIL Ruining College Sports? Using Austrian Economics Stacker_Sports
I followed CC since her insane march madness runs- as a result I now know the names of quite a few wnba players I never cared about before.
I also never cared about NFL until Stanford players I cared about (Luck, Sherman, Ertz, CMC, etc) started to get some real traction. There are many ways for people to get hooked onto different sports and they stay for different reasons but you need something to get them into the funnel.
Yes, it looks like this is the same for everything. There are other threads talking about Stacker News and how to get and keep people interested and moving with it.
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I forgot Ertz went to Stanford!
I'm guessing you graduated from Stanford too
add: Jim Harbaugh was HC, Greg Roman was OC, Vic Fangio was DC and they all went to SF 49ers after Stanford in 2011
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Harbaugh was amazing took us to the Orange Bowl starting from nothing and brought us so many great memories including the Greatest Upset Ever (USC). Was so heartbreaking when he left- we limped along for several more years by reputation (David Shaw inherited great recruits but sucked) but I think now with Pac12 dissolving and NIL age we are toast.
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You don’t know about that! Stanford has a rather large fund of money, don’t they. If they want good players they can buy them now.
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Haha we have fans that yell at you in the stadium if you stand up and block their view. The gender studies and other depts would have a fit if they found out we started funding athletes beyond scholarships.
Obviously a John Arillaga or a newly minted google billionaire could fund the entire thing if they wanted to...
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Phil Knight is a graduate of Stanford Business School
update:
Arillaga's daughter is married to Marc Andreessen
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I guess there is a lot of money in the alumnus then. They could finance it if they wanted to.
That doesn’t sound like a very good atmosphere for football games, does it?
Why are they at the games if their behavior is so constricted?
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because swimming, volleyball and basketball are bigger sports in Palo Alto
Yeah it's a big reason it's hard to recruit- it helped when we built the new stadium and downsized from the old gigantic stadium with a track around the football field. But there's a huge difference in football culture between schools like UM, ND etc and the typical nerds at Stanford.
Even still with a personality like Harbaugh we were able to compete with the big boys for a few great years.
General manager Andrew Luck
I remember that upset in 2007. It was a night game. USC was a 42 point favorite
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That is an upset people should remember. 42 points is an awful lot of points to be upset with.
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One of the greatest sports memories of my life- Richard Sherman was our rookie WR and made an epic catch to get a first down that eventually led to the upset score.
Mark Bradford our WR who made the final TD catch to win the game grew up wanting to go to USC and his father passed away 2 weeks before the game...
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