Winning with true student athletes: Stanford

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<span style="font-style: italic;">Stanford administrators have estimated that only 400 of the 3,500 high
school prospects who sign letters of intent each year meet their
admissions standards. A year into the job, Harbaugh doubted that number.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
"We're probably looking at a pool of 100 to 150 scholar-athletes," he
said at the time. "It's a small pool. Smaller than anybody else has."</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
Consider that Stanford consistently ranks near the top of the NCAA's
Academic Progress Rates and nearly half of the upperclassmen on the
current roster are enrolled in engineering majors.</span>

And they graduate. Brief article:

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[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Harbaugh is probably thinking of the number who would get into Stanford if they couldn't play football.

 

[ckDOG]

They have a small pool to choose from, but you have to think half of that pool of 100 to 150 would accept an offer from Stanford. If you have a decent eye for talent, it shouldn't be that hard to put together a solid recruiting class every year. Plus, I would assume they have less attrition in their program due to players making mistakes, etc.

If my son were a D1 prospect, I'd like to think I would stay fairly hands-off on letting him make his own decision. However, if Stanford were to offer, he's going to Stanford.

 

[MedDawg]

BCS conference football and top top education for free? No school really compares to Stanford's football/academics combo. <div>
</div><div>Of course, you can get a good education at any BCS school. Go to Mississippi State, make excellent grades and learn your stuff, and you can get into any graduate program anywhere.</div>

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

The Hoover Institution there is one of the more conservative think tanks in the country. Even though I've got more ties to Berkeley (my grandfather was an alumnus), I would send my kid to Stanford in a heartbeat if he was offered a scholarship there. Heck, if I was offered a well paying fellowship I would go there and get my Ph. D., though my wife probably wouldn't like living in northern California for a few years.