pingpong2;842427256 said:
Pretty sure it has less to do with where they graduated from and more to do with the fact that most Stanfurd NFLers are white while most Cal NFLers are black (or in the case of Conte tatted up)
Same reason why everyone thinks Kaep is a moron even though he scored higher on the Wonderlic than guys like Rodgers or Romo.
Or that Kap is greedy for his huge performance based contract (that suddenly does not look like such a massive contract).
I actually think it also has to do with what your school is up to. I hate to break it to everyone, but Cal is a joke academically, despite our improvement. We can all run around the internet talking about how much harder it is to go to Cal, but that is just excuses... When you still have people saying a coach should not be fired when you have the worst APR and GSR in the entire sub division and only better than a handfull of schools in the division, no one should be taking you seriously as an academic institution.
OTOH, Stanford, regardless of the excuse making here, does seek out smart people to go to the school and play football. They have been very successfully for a while, and before that did the same thing in a little less astonishing way, but have consistently placed academics as a priority, where Cal rarely has, athletically.
If Cal wants to be seen as an academic school, we cant have the academically worst of the worse filling out the football team. We certainly cant make excuses why we are SO damn bad academically. Being a "hard" school means nothing to anyone, because everyone knows the sink or swim does NOT apply to athletes. They have all the resources the NCAA allows.
