Stanford football faces extraordinary recruiting challenges

but clearly not insurmountable onesGoing to Stanford during the 1980s, my father never expected Stanford to be a good let alone a dominant football team in the PAC-12. He remembers going to the Big Game where the band stormed the field early and watching Stanford struggle throughout the 80s even with John Elway leading the way. There’s no easy way to put this, but the Stanford he remembers stunk. In 2011, Stanford made the Orange Bowl, and my dad thought it was the biggest thing to ever happen in the history of Stanford. He went to Miami with all his college friends leaving me at home, but I remember asking him, “Why are you going to the game? Stanford didn’t even make the Rose Bowl.” He told me that going to a BCS game was a once in a lifetime thing, and thankfully, he was wrong.

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