^Contradictory. You claim it as a negative that Harvard tries to attract top talent (“Harvard is notorious for inviting nobel winners…”), then turn around and claim it as a positive that Stanford does the same thing.
And the count of Nobel Prize winners by alumni isn’t even close. So I understand why Stanford fanboys/girls want to dismiss it as not “really matter[ing] that much.” Yet, I think it shows both the quality of the students Harvard attracts as well as the value-added in rigorous training (though, it is hard to say how much value added vs. future Nobel Prize winners choose to go there in the first place… yet, that also says something).