<p>@Texaspg. What is so intriguing and fascinating about Stanford and athletics is that Stanford provides the highest level of academics without compromise and demands as much from its scholar-geeks to scholar-athletes…</p>
<p>…it amazes me that athletes of the highest caliber (most of them national or international level…and many of them going into professional ranks or competing in the Olympics) would want to study and compete at Stanford which has the academic rigor of Princeton, MIT, Chicago, Harvard…</p>
<p>…to compete against other D1 teams in the PAC-12 and around the country that do not require the rigor as high as Stanford is quite astounding…</p>
<p>…to hear of students like Mark Appel (no.1 MLB draft pick) graduating with a degree in engineering, Andrew Luck (no.1 NFL draft pick) graduating with architecture degree, former great John Elway graduating with economics degree…it speaks volumes as to what kind of students Stanford looks for…they look for future champions not only in the classroom but in the “stadium”…</p>
<p>…the long list of former Stanford students/graduates like Jim Plunkett, Tom Watson, Tiger woods, Michelle Wie, John McEnroe…so on and so on…</p>
<p>…by the way Texaspg, Stanford won the Director’s Cup (Learfield) for the 19th consecutive year.</p>