Stanford Men not in the top 75

Beginning of something good and top 10.

Sunday’s match at the Robson Tennis Center left the Cats with the short end of the stick as they lost to Stanford 4-3 in a dramatic finish.
With the match tied at three apiece, Trevor James fell to Robert Stineman 6-3, 7-5 in the decisive match.
 
I wonder what the Stanford players reaction was to the "dramatic" win over Arizona. I imagine it was something similar to when Gera Borachinskiy clinched the "dramatic" 4-3 win for Clemson over William & Mary in 2010. To this day I have not seen a more awkward and lackluster dogpile.
 
UNLV, Utah and now the great Arizona Wildcats. To get 4-3 wins and put out on twitter how great the road trip is exactly the problem. 3 teams that should get beat 7-0. UNLV and Arizona are pathetic, and has been mentioned before that the Arizona coach should no longer have a job. Why is Stanford celebrating this? I can't imagine anyone would have thought this program would ever be as bad as it is right now. No way we make the tournament this year.
 
norcaltennisnut said:
UNLV, Utah and now the great Arizona Wildcats. To get 4-3 wins and put out on twitter how great the road trip is exactly the problem. 3 teams that should get beat 7-0. UNLV and Arizona are pathetic, and has been mentioned before that the Arizona coach should no longer have a job. Why is Stanford celebrating this? I can't imagine anyone would have thought this program would ever be as bad as it is right now. No way we make the tournament this year.
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Are you serious? It has already been posted here that Stanford is going to sweep USC and UCLA next weekend and vault into the top 10. Won't that guarantee a place in the NCAAs?
 
well at least Whitlinger saves himself for the end of the season with the sweep. If they had lost to UNLV or Arizona he should not have been allowed back on the bus.
 
norcaltennisnut said:
UNLV, Utah and now the great Arizona Wildcats. To get 4-3 wins and put out on twitter how great the road trip is exactly the problem. 3 teams that should get beat 7-0. UNLV and Arizona are pathetic, and has been mentioned before that the Arizona coach should no longer have a job. Why is Stanford celebrating this? I can't imagine anyone would have thought this program would ever be as bad as it is right now. No way we make the tournament this year.
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Not sure what you are talking about. Men's team is happy about 4-3 victory, it was close but gutted it out and that is always good team win and lifts the spirit even if it is low ranked opponent. That is what team tennis all about.

StanfordMTennis ‏@StanfordTennis 1h
4-3 win at Arizona completed three-match road sweep. Stanford erased doubles loss with Stineman clincher at No. 6: http://bit.ly/1e2zUB9

doesn't sound like big statement to me.
 
4-0 Stanford over Boise State - looks like the courts are soaked so that must have been why they skipped dubs. Pretty dominating performance by the Cardinal.
 
TopDawg said:
4-0 Stanford over Boise State - looks like the courts are soaked so that must have been why they skipped dubs. Pretty dominating performance by the Cardinal.
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Yes yes, getting ready to Sweet USC and UCLA this weekend and gain some momentum going into Pac-12 tournament.
 
Golden_state_of_mind said:
why did Stanford go from unranked to #52? For beating Utah?
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Yep, once you get down below 50 in the rankings most of the teams have maybe 1 or 2 decent wins over someone in the 50-75 range and the point totals are so slim that 1 decent win can jump you up 20 or 30 spots. Also one of their past opponents, Furman, jumped into the top 75 this week so that gave Stanford that many more points. Stanford will be close to 40 next week with their win over Boise State this week.
 
TopDawg said:
Yep, once you get down below 50 in the rankings most of the teams have maybe 1 or 2 decent wins over someone in the 50-75 range and the point totals are so slim that 1 decent win can jump you up 20 or 30 spots. Also one of their past opponents, Furman, jumped into the top 75 this week so that gave Stanford that many more points. Stanford will be close to 40 next week with their win over Boise State this week.
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and I guess also because they don't have very many losses and the ones they do are to good teams.
 
TopDawg said:
USC took The Card to the cleaners - not close at all.
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Yes, currently USC is a bad matchup for the Cardinal. up and down the lineup, guys don't match up well. John at #1 can matchup well with Ray Sarmiento but they switched it up.......Wonder why......
 
Nostradamus said:
Tough loss today to UCLA but with Nolan Paige back in the lineup, Cardinal could go deep into NCAA tournament
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arguable whether he makes them better or worse

had a terrible, terrible dual match singles record last year

9-13 overall, 0 wins in conference (0-6), and lost 9 of his last 10 last season, many of them badly

bad recruiting? or did he get worse once he got to stanford (like so many it seems...)?
 
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mikej said:
bad recruiting?
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I think that's it. Dick Gould was known as a relentless recruiter, I know several of his players commented on how he basically wore them down to get them to attend Stanford. The current staff was able to ride those coattails for awhile but apparently no longer. None of Gould's teams would have suffered back to back humiliating loses like this year's team. Maybe with the football team doing well the last few years the tennis team is getting a pass, but it is hard to figure how Whitlinger is still there.
 
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I think that's it. Dick Gould was known as a relentless recruiter, I know several of his players commented on how he basically wore them down to get them to attend Stanford. The current staff was able to ride those coattails for awhile but apparently no longer. None of Gould's teams would have suffered back to back humiliating loses like this year's team. Maybe with the football team doing well the last few years the tennis team is getting a pass, but it is hard to figure how Whitlinger is still there.
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When a top Junior player has great potential, they all get a look. However, if they are just B average student or below, Coach Whit can't do much to get them on the team, no matter how much he wants them and knows they can help the team. So is this Coach's fault ?
 
Nostradamus said:
When a top Junior player has great potential, they all get a look. However, if they are just B average student or below, Coach Whit can't do much to get them on the team, no matter how much he wants them and knows they can help the team. So is this Coach's fault ?
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And this all changed since Dick Gould stepped down?
 
Nostradamus said:
When a top Junior player has great potential, they all get a look. However, if they are just B average student or below, Coach Whit can't do much to get them on the team, no matter how much he wants them and knows they can help the team. So is this Coach's fault ?
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It's not the coach's fault, just his responsibility. No different than at Northwestern, Notre Dame and other institutions with strict academic requirements.
 
Nostradamus said:
When a top Junior player has great potential, they all get a look. However, if they are just B average student or below, Coach Whit can't do much to get them on the team, no matter how much he wants them and knows they can help the team. So is this Coach's fault ?
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Yeah, that explains Duke, Vandy, Northwestern, Wake Forest, Columbia, Princeton and others having more success currently than Stanford. No school is harder to get into in the world than Standford. Their players are lucky to be even able to leave class for a day to play a match.
 
andfor said:
Yeah, that explains Duke, Vandy, Northwestern, Wake Forest, Columbia, Princeton and others having more success currently than Stanford. No school is harder to get into in the world than Standford. Their players are lucky to be even able to leave class for a day to play a match.
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LOL. just look at the overall record for last 10 years.
 
I was wondering why Nostradamus wasn't talking about "Standford" and last week's matches against USC & UCLA. So, I went to the Stanford site and see they lost 7-0 and 4-0. OUCH!!!
 
Stanford edged Cal Poly 4-2 today. Ho and Strobel went down in straights at 2 and 3 while Tsodikov and Stineman won in straights at 5 and 6. Morrissey won 6-4 in the 3rd while Paige was down 4-2 in the 3rd.
 
Nostradamus said:
Stanford is on its way back to the TOP. Read.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/04/15/tuteja-mens-tennis-set-on-path-to-returning-to-the-top/
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Classic comedy from the article:

And for someone who was looking to watch great college tennis, what better school to attend than Stanford?
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Later, describing the road wins against the "murderer's row" of UNLV, Utah, and Arizona:

Nonetheless, in three closely contested matches, the Stanford Cardinal prevailed against all three opponents 4-3, and at the start of April, the Cardinal found itself back in the rankings at No. 52 following what Whitlinger called “one of the toughest road trips that we’ve ever had.”
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