David Shaw

even think that dude is playing football anymore.

We ain't take away David Shaw.

David Shaw smiling when he leaving the field.

He throwing poachers in the mix down the road.

Thomas Hammock, we ain't take him away.

And those are the things where I thought he really grew, especially this season too, of the discernment at the position.

And I love that word for quarterback play and stealing that from David Shaw.

And he stole it from Bill Walsh by just being a huge, you know, work to basically dictate when am I making a decision? Is it a high percentage decision? And I'd imagine they've been trained up.

Hey, if we don't turn it over and if we just tackle, well, let's just outlast SC.

Doesn't even matter if you know what's going to happen.

And that's David Shaw who's not going for it on fourth.

Now you run it because you could get it on fourth and two and you go for it.

You

Yeah.

That's like, it's just gut wrenching for the, I just hate that aspect of the sport.

I mean, I love the aspect of the sport that you could have a team that's doing that, but I always want to see that team that it's fourth and one, like no offense for David Shaw, but fourth and one from the opponents 34 and they punt or whatever.

Like I always want to see that team get punished.

My takeaway was, yeah, Notre Dame is significantly better than Stanford.

Like they have been really since the end of the David Shaw era.

Like the prime David Shaw era.

When I look at this matchup with Navy, there's going to be things that, look, the talent gap is so significant that they could just come out with the same exact game plan they had for BYU and cover their 30.5 point spread.

Brian Newberry has talked about it before.

No, and I'll just...

David Shaw, and this is kind of where I'm talking about the wheels turn slowly.

The worst practices and the things that undermined and eventually wrecked Stanford football from the position it had been in started way before the losses came.

And David Shaw walked into a spectacular situation.

Lincoln Riley did not walk into a spectacular situation such that it could be cruise controlled for two or three years and the level of play that you were really happy with stayed and stuck around.

I think that's my biggest lesson from the whole Stanford experience was, Well, we're three, four years into a tenure.

So, no, it's different in a lot of ways.

The one thing maybe you'd have in common is you have two – very stubborn personalities whose unwillingness to change created problems for themselves.

They're god-awful.

David Shaw is not walking through that door.

No. Dennis Green is not walking through that door.

Well, neither

Um, And it's like, if you turn legends on and Madden or, you know, whatever, cause you've got Mark Brunel as your quarterbacks coach to shard choices, your running backs coach, Bruce Gretkowski as assistant wide receivers coach, Mike Kafka is your past game coordinator.

David Shaw is your past game specialist, Dan skipper, offensive assistant.

Marquez Tuisosopo is your offensive assistant.

Kelvin Shepard is your defensive coordinator.