re: Stanford head coach David Shaw just disrespects the entire SEC

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but in general, those players are pretty impressive, academically

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I wouldn't call a 930/1600 on the SAT "impressive academically", and yet that's essentially what DRob was told he'd need to get in. It's all relative.

The bar is higher for athletes at Stanford than many schools, but it's nowhere in the same vicinity as what is required for the rest of the student body. On *average* at Stanford, being a football player is approximately worth about 200-300 points on a kid's SAT and a +(.5 to 1.0) GPA boost...

While it means there are definitely some kids that flat out aren't even in consideration, these days there are a large number of available candidates to select from from high school athletes that actually can make it into Stanford.

As far as the camps go, I'm not sure they are valuable for any SEC programs either, simply due to our proximity to the majority of the talent in the country to begin with. California's not hurting for talent either. There is a reason the B1G was the only P5 conference onboard with these things.