Michael is a digital sports strategist for Bay Area News Group. The Denver-area native went to Arizona State's Cronkite School of Journalism and worked several years in Phoenix before coming to Northern California, mostly for the fish tacos.
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach Troy Taylor of the Stanford Cardinal walks off the field following a loss to the Arizona Wildcats at Stanford Stadium on September 23, 2023 in Stanford, California. Two years into his tenure at Stanford, coach Troy Taylor has the worst winning percentage of any coach in Stanford football history.and an unprecedented influx of midseason transfers could help the Cardinal make a bowl game for the first time since 2018.
“In this day and age of college football, the head coach position wears a lot of different hats,” Taylor said. “So it’s going to allow me to really focus on team culture and specifically the offense and driving the offense, as opposed to wearing different hats, as basically I was doing the GM stuff.”
That will be a big change for the Cardinal, who lost 19 starters to the transfer portal in Taylor’s first two seasons. Taylor said that Stanford will still always focus on recruiting and developing recruits from high school. But the Cardinal haven’t won more than three games in a season since players earned the right to transfer without penalty. In Taylor’s first year, 13 starters left – including the entire offensive line – and couldn’t be replaced due to Stanford’s stringent requirements for incoming transfers.
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