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Haha we have fans that yell at you in the stadium if you stand up and block their view. The gender studies and other depts would have a fit if they found out we started funding athletes beyond scholarships.

Obviously a John Arillaga or a newly minted google billionaire could fund the entire thing if they wanted to...

Phil Knight is a graduate of Stanford Business School

update: Arillaga's daughter is married to Marc Andreessen

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I guess there is a lot of money in the alumnus then. They could finance it if they wanted to.

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That doesn’t sound like a very good atmosphere for football games, does it? Why are they at the games if their behavior is so constricted?

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because swimming, volleyball and basketball are bigger sports in Palo Alto

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Ok, from the news of late, i guess I can understand that.

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Yeah it's a big reason it's hard to recruit- it helped when we built the new stadium and downsized from the old gigantic stadium with a track around the football field. But there's a huge difference in football culture between schools like UM, ND etc and the typical nerds at Stanford.

Even still with a personality like Harbaugh we were able to compete with the big boys for a few great years.

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Yes, I haven’t heard of Stanford from the PAC12 for a long time.

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