prospeCt;842289756 said:
glenn dickey, on the "orinda sports",
"Stanford’s recent emphasis on bringing in top students from other countries has caused admissions standards to rise, because the size of the student body has not increased. That’s put more pressure on the athletic programs.
That hasn’t hurt the "Orinda sports" (tennis, golf, swimming, etc.), which are country club sports. Athletes competing in those sports usually come from a good academic background. So do women’s basketball players. And college baseball has become a white sport — it’s hard to spot a black face at the College World Series.
But many of the top black athletes in high school do not get the kind of education that allows them to meet the rigid Stanford admissions standards. BOther schools, including Cal, have remedial programs that allow them to do college work. (The Cal program is run by the university, not the athletic department, and has far more nonathletes than athletes.) But Stanford has no such program. "
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/dickey-stanfords-success-rides-on-admissions-standards/Content?oid=2154512
"Does anyone care about Stanford basketball?"
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Does-anyone-care-about-Stanford-basketball-2819060.php
Stanford will be raising its next class by about 10%, and has committed to increasing the size of its undergrad classes. Its been widely touted by Stanford President, not that Dickey, being a Norcal sports writer, really cares about facts. No one cares about Furd MENS basketball currently. The same could not be said for the women's program, in relative terms. And Cal doesn't want to get into a pissing contest about percentage of minorities on campus with the Furd - we won't win that argument (unless you call Asian students minorities), or look at representation on coaching staffs, particularly at the head coach level. Stanford tends to get its minority athletes from Catholic and private schools (there are exceptions for those who were watching the Super Bowl). TW, Dickey sort of implies that Furd womens' basketball is a white Orinda sport, and he might want to look at all the black faces on the Furd roster and where they are from. And at least they win in football, which one could hardly call an Orinda sport
And the reference to Ted Leland is idiotic, and classic Dickey. That is two flipping ADs and almost a decade away. Leland's view is he couldn't pay the basketball and football coaches much more than the other coaches, like golf, volleyball, etc. Dickey says this. Johnson left because LSU offered him multiples of what he was making at Furd. The rest is utter BS rationalization. Then came Bowlsby, and things changed dramatically. Furd pays its football and basketball coaches (both of them) very competitively. Have for a long time. The same goes with the current AD, who happens to be black (as our a lot of top Furd administrators). Tara makes way more than every coach at Cal other than Monty and Sonny (two white guys, as opposed to the two black head coaches at Furd). And as for the remedial program, Cal has tutors and the like, but we don't give kids high school classes other than maybe bonehead English (do we still do this?). Stanford's tutor program is very similar to Cal's. Again, WTF is Dickey talking about when he starts talking about race? Keep sticking to what sports were decades ago, when you were alive.
Final thought after reading posts on this board about attendance, people leaving early, etc. : Does anyone really care about Cal basketball?
