Umm... I have no problem discussing Stanford's team and/or their results with any of you guys. But, 1) Stanford fans don't need to react to every single comment against Stanford. Like... there's no point in some posters arguing whether Stanford shuffled the lineup or not. They did. The lineup against Baylor is posted on the web. Their lineup every week before that was "normal". In yesterday's match against USC, Stanford used their "normal" lineup. A better discussion would be to argue if Stanford made a legitimate lineup change against Baylor. Did Thacher or Hirshman play bad in the previous dual match that would merit them being demoted? Did Thacher or Hirshman have an injury or sickness during practice that week that would merit Clayton and Kandath to play above them? It's hard to know as fans if a lineup change is legitimate because we don't know what happens in the daily lives of these players. That's why we ask questions and discuss the facts and the results. Nothing in the previous weeks suggested the lineup change. Clayton and Kandath haven't played well at no. 3 and no. 6, respectively. If anything, Thacher and Hirshman are the usual point earners for the Stanford team at no. 2 and no. 5. In fact, during the Baylor match, only Thacher and Hirshman won their matches playing at a lower position. Thats why, to me and to others, it appeared that Stanford was trying to stack in this match.
2) Most threads in this forum are made with a Stanford POV and are discussed in a Stanford POV. Last year's ITA indoor thread, Last year's NCAA thread, this year's Indoor thread, the next NCAA thread (hasn't been made yet), they all pretty much start out as a 'how is stanford doing' thread, then after that, we start talking about teams that actually make it past the rd of 16. Actually, even in the later rounds, somehow we still end up talking about Stanford and 'how Stanford is going to regroup in the next tournament'. If people started treating Stanford like a seed 9-16 team like they are, and not a 1-4 team like they were more than a decade ago, then we won't get into these, as others have called it, "pointless" arguments.
