Rockne's Roundtable

Shaw is continuing to coach well. But Harbough built this program and this team in particular. Stanford is still very dangerous particularly this year, but will go into slow decline, as I don't think Shaw will keep up the program in the long run.

I'm sorry, but the way Stanford manhandled Oregon last year was Shaw, not Harbaugh. Shaw may have the recruits from Harbaugh, but teaching them to play the game is on Shaw and his staff.

So it doesn't matter that they currently have a 95 man roster? I just checked their roster on Stanford's website and they have 95. How many are scholarship and are they counting people leaving this year and the recruits, I don't know. But Stanford isn't hurting for numbers. They had a small class because they didn't have many scholarships.

They had a small class because they did not need many this year. Shaw had the best offensive line group in the country ( last years freshmen ) so they should be an excellent rushing team for years. The thing that I want to see is whether they can continue to recruit top defensive players after this group graduates next year. Also, they redshirt many players ( way more than we do ) which helps their program tremendously.