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From ESPN.com:

Stanford fires football coach Troy Taylor, says GM Andrew Luck
Kyle Bonagura

Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor following a report last week that he had been investigated twice for allegedly mistreating staffers.

General manager Andrew Luck announced the decision on Tuesday in his first major move since taking over in his role running the entire football program.

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What an incredibly tough place to win. You need to find players (a la Jonathan McGill) who can get admitted and handle the academic requirements, and then piece together a staff of assistant coaches willing to work on a salary that pales in comparison to those at other schools because the cost of living in Palo Alto is insanely high.

Mistreating support staff doesn't help, either.

Ikus wrote:...then piece together a staff of assistant coaches willing to work on a salary that pales in comparison to those at other schools because the cost of living in Palo Alto is insanely high.

They partially addressed that by building housing on-campus that assistant coaches could live in.

Ikus wrote:What an incredibly tough place to win. You need to find players (a la Jonathan McGill) who can get admitted and handle the academic requirements, and then piece together a staff of assistant coaches willing to work on a salary that pales in comparison to those at other schools because the cost of living in Palo Alto is insanely high.

Mistreating support staff doesn't help, either.

Well, at least firing the coach for doing so helps, on that last point. Stanford does have some drawbacks, now including how much travel the players are signing up for, but there are huge advantages as well. No one else--Duke is very close, Northwestern a bit behind that, Vanderbilt a bit further behind--offers the possibility of P4 competition while earning that degree. And Stanford has every single athletic scholarship fully endowed. They have plenty of money to subsidize the staff, for example. They just have to decide if they're really going to commit to the NIL world.

From ESPN.com:

Stanford hires former NFL coach Frank Reich as interim head coach; both sides agree it's a one-year deal.

PonyPride wrote:From ESPN.com:

Stanford hires former NFL coach Frank Reich as interim head coach; both sides agree it's a one-year deal.

Interesting hire. Frank's brother Joe is Interim A.D. and has been the (very successful) long term head football coach at D-II Wingate here in my neck of the woods. Frank bombed in his one season with the Carolina Panthers but he didn't have much talent to work with. Not sure how this will work as a "one year" deal. Tough to recruit under those circumstances, I would think...especially for a program that is not heavily invested in NIL