Stanford Recruiting and Everything Else

[INLaw]

I don’t want them back in any meaningful way in recruiting. Through the entire BK era there was 1-3 kids they beat us for per year. If we got all of them, I think we would have been around a win better per season.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Kelly was 5-6 against Stanford but won 4 of his last 5. Freeman dropped his first one, won the second.

The only guy I can ever recall Stanford getting that I really liked was James Vaughters and he was a linebacker from Georgia as I recall. I think the rest were OL, and in that regard, ND did quite well during the time Stanford had their run under Harbaugh and Shaw when BK was at ND.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Kelly was 5-6 against Stanford but won 4 of his last 5. Freeman dropped his first one, won the second.

The only guy I can ever recall Stanford getting that I really liked was James Vaughters and he was a linebacker from Georgia as I recall. I think the rest were OL, and in that regard, ND did quite well during the time Stanford had their run under Harbaugh and Shaw when BK was at ND.

Saiid Paulson Adebo decommitting from ND when he was admitted to Stanford, Solomon Thomas never giving ND a sniff...

 

[IHateMarkMay]

If I remember correctly, Blake Lueders was wanted. Indiana kid, DE or LB, massive neck.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Saiid Paulson Adebo decommitting from ND when he was admitted to Stanford, Solomon Thomas never giving ND a sniff...

Sure. Completely forgot.

If I remember correctly, Blake Lueders was wanted. Indiana kid, DE or LB, massive neck.

I'm not sure how I forgot about this one. I'm guessing moderate health issues were caused by an Indiana kid signing with Stanford.

**Vaughters never got drafted. He's 30 and plays in Canada now.

 

[ulukinatme]

Kelly was 5-6 against Stanford but won 4 of his last 5. Freeman dropped his first one, won the second.

The only guy I can ever recall Stanford getting that I really liked was James Vaughters and he was a linebacker from Georgia as I recall. I think the rest were OL, and in that regard, ND did quite well during the time Stanford had their run under Harbaugh and Shaw when BK was at ND.

I had to go back and look because I couldn't believe BK struggled so much with Stanford, even though they were good for a bit there. I guess my brain was trying to forget some of those losses. Turns out it was even worse than this. BK was technically just 4-6 against Stanford because the '12 win got vacated (Fuck you, NCAA. Pedo State gets theirs back and not us for some academic bullshit?). BK also won just 3 of his last 5 which was his best stretch of games...because Stanford basically sucked at that point.

Damn BK finished with a losing record to both Stanford and Michigan. Sad.

 

[Irish du Nord]

We made Christian McCaffrey’s top 10 but I don’t think we were ever really in it

 

[zelezo vlk]

I had to go back and look because I couldn't believe BK struggled so much with Stanford, even though they were good for a bit there. I guess my brain was trying to forget some of those losses. Turns out it was even worse than this. BK was technically just 4-6 against Stanford because the '12 win got vacated (Fuck you, NCAA. Pedo State gets theirs back and not us for some academic bullshit?). BK also won just 3 of his last 5 which was his best stretch of games...because Stanford basically sucked at that point.

Damn BK finished with a losing record to both Stanford and Michigan. Sad.

For BK's first 6 years, Stanford was a legit top 10 team. There were 2 Andrew Luck seasons to start, and several Rose Bowl appearances. After 2015 was when the Trees really started to fall off and it just so happens that was roughly when BK reinvented the program. 2016 was stolen from them and the team just laid an absolute egg in '17. Let's not forget that ND wasn't able to play Stanford in 2020 due to COVID, and there's not a doubt in my mind that the Irish would have crushed the Stanford soul on that field had they played.

 

[ulukinatme]

For BK's first 6 years, Stanford was a legit top 10 team. There were 2 Andrew Luck seasons to start, and several Rose Bowl appearances. After 2015 was when the Trees really started to fall off and it just so happens that was roughly when BK reinvented the program. 2016 was stolen from them and the team just laid an absolute egg in '17. Let's not forget that ND wasn't able to play Stanford in 2020 due to COVID, and there's not a doubt in my mind that the Irish would have crushed the Stanford soul on that field had they played.

True, but we really shouldn't have lost those 2015 and 2017 games. We were the more talented team. We blew the first one, and the second one really was a head scratcher. That's not to even mention the 2022 debacle which was under Freeman's watch, but quite frankly BK sowed the seeds of that one with poor offensive recruiting in 2019 and 2020. Bottom line, should have won '15 and '17 and then BK would have finished 6-4 with a winning record against the Tree.

 

[irishff1014]

Andrew Luck has been hired as the GM for Stanford.