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6-18 over two years isn't very inspiring, and the fact that he was treating women staffers like garbage didn't exactly win him any favors from the powers that be.

I will grant him this, that David Shaw was on a terrible trend downwards before his taking over, and he had to rebuild, but to not show any improvement in year 2 gave Stanford (it's Board of Trustees, along with GM Luck) every reason to terminate him.

Four of last year's losses were within one score, showing that they could have been at least a reasonably decent team, but when you look at his being lazy when it came to the transfer portal in 2024 (they only brought in 4 guys), the call to fire him was a no-brainer. There were times that a little bit of additional developed depth would have easily swung at least two of those losses to the win column.

He did manage to bring in some decent numbers for the 2025 class when it came to transfer portal folks, but by that time, it was already too late.

It should have been done sooner, though, so that they could have hired a HC in time for the spring. Now they'll have to go with an interim.