Comments on: HLS Top 25 Roulette: #14 Stanford https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2011/08/25/hls-top-25-roulette-14-stanford/ A Notre Dame Football Blog Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: SDI https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2011/08/25/hls-top-25-roulette-14-stanford/#comment-211918 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:52:58 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=7624#comment-211918 That’s about right–14. This Stanford team will be about like ND circa 2005-06. Good QB play and leadership from Luck, but not enough play makers on O and suspect D will make it tough for them to beat ND and USC, Oregon will beat them like a drum, @ Arizona won’t be easy, and Cal will always play them tough.
I think they drop at least 3 games, maybe 4.

]]> By: DJ https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2011/08/25/hls-top-25-roulette-14-stanford/#comment-211917 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:40:10 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=7624#comment-211917 Harbaugh recruited well. The systemic problem for Stanford, which has stricter academic standards than just about everyone (including Notre Dame), has a volume of potential recruits that varied widely from year to year. One year, they might be able to go after 15 of the top 100, the next year, seven or eight. They therefore need a high success rate.

Harbaugh also created very tough, physical teams. That training won’t disappear overnight.

I think the most important thing is getting Luck back. Had he gone pro, Stanford would be looking at seven wins at the most.

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