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How Stanford Football Lost Its Way

Like us on Facebook:   / touchbackthe   Follow on X:   / touchbackthe   On October 8th, 2022, Stanford led Oregon State 24-10 heading into the fourth quarter. The Cardinal went on to lose the game in the last 30 seconds, one of the most hopeless, borderline slapstick plays imaginable. I was at that game sitting behind the end zone. I’m still not entirely sure what the hell the Stanford secondary managed to give up a touchdown on that play. Many fans left Stanford Stadium that night thinking their football program had hit rock bottom. It seemed that way for a week after the loss. The Cardinal beat Notre Dame and Arizona State, but that was nothing more than a false dawn. Nearly three years after the Hail Mary loss to Oregon State, Stanford is arguably the worst Power 4 team in America. You knew it was bad when they announced Ben Gulbranson, the man who threw that game-winning pass for Oregon State in 2022, as their starting quarterback. As for Stanford, Andrew Luck is the individual tasked with turning things around. The Troy Taylor experiment is over. Frank Reich is a stopgap solution. The focus is now on building something sustainable for the long term. Yet, if you don’t know what went wrong, you might not understand how to fix things. Usually, the discussion involving the Cardinal boils down to it being a difficult place to recruit, or the administration can be meddlesome, or academics are too high. These are all challenges, but haven’t proven to be a hindrance for several coaches in the program’s history. To that end, David Shaw broke Stanford football. You see, head football coaches don’t stick around the farm for long. Unlike other schools where some coaches stick for 10, 15, or even 20 years, turnover at Stanford has been kind of remarkable. Prior to Shaw, no one person was head coach for more than nine seasons. That is extraordinary for a team that dates all the way back to Walter Camp and the 1890s. Shaw's extent stint on the sidelines caused Stanford football to lose its way. About The Touchback #takeitouttothe25 The Touchback is the world's best sports and culture website…or something like that. You'll either really like it or really hate it. But it's worth reading either way.