Satellite camps, if any other coach tweets this, it's major headlines

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Well its a fair point for the HC at Stanford to make.

that's a nice truthful zinger.

Well he's not wrong Stanford is both parts fascinating and unmatchable in what it's athletics programs can do because of the marriage between its high academic prestige and membership in a P5 conference. I swear the NCAA just wishes all colleges and programs were Stanford (at least that's how it treats every program and their players)

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In MS, it would probably be 0

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It is definitely zero.

I agree that he's a douche nozzle but you should post the entire quote as it reads at least a little differently.

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Well, that certainly won't help Stanford recruit the south.

ETA: Can more coaches outside of the south come out and say things like this? I'd like to keep our athletes down here.

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Well he is right. I always admired Stanford not lowering standards to get a lot of good players. Their guys can kick your arse in the Rose Bowl or the Brain Bowl.

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not lowering standards to get a lot of good players

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You do realize their football players are not held to the same standard as other applicants, right? It's not as low of a threshold as other schools, but it's been shown that many of their football students are in the bottom 5-10% of their student base in almost every category (standardized tests, GPA, etc.) LINK

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But this is not actually true. Although we do not have comprehensive statistics comparing athletic admits to regular admits, some data does exist. Looking at a group of 10 elite colleges and using SAT scores (on the 1600 point scale) as a proxy for academic ability, Princeton researchers found that being a recruited athlete gave an admissions boost equivalent to scoring 200 points higher on the SAT. We can also look at high school scouting reports for football players. Looking at the Stanford recruitment class of 2009 (this year was quite typical in terms of test scores), the median football player who reported scores got an 1800 out of 2400 on the SAT and 26 on the ACT. Based on university statistics, this puts the football median comfortably in the bottom quartile and likely somewhere in the bottom 10 percent in terms of test scores. Stanford football players are quite smart, but the data suggests they place near the bottom of Stanford’s admits.

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that's a nice truthful zinger.

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It is? His own actions say otherwise.

According to 247, in 2016 alone they offered players from:

Alabama - 2
Louisiana - 2
Texas - 18
Georgia - 9
Florida - 6
Arkansas - 1
Tennessee - 2
Missouri - 1

They only offered 12 to kids from California.

I guess you could assume he's saying he wouldn't see value in holding camps in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Kentucky. That's probably true, but it would be due to the relative lack of football as opposed to academic talent.

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I swear the NCAA just wishes all colleges and programs were Stanford (at least that's how it treats every program and their players)

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That is a good point. Stanford is the archetype of how "the system is supposed to work."