'Stanford changed my life and our program changed a lot of lives,' former coach David Shaw said when talking about his decision to step down.
Longtime Stanford coach, David Shaw - the winningest football coach in the school's history - announced his retirement over the weekend.
Shaw is one of the most respected people in the sport and for some, he's been a leader as the landscape of college sports has drastically changed. He took the head coach role in 2011. "It's been great, it's been a great run," he said."There are a lot of people that think this program is down and that's what our record says...we're not that far away. This one phrase just kept coming to me; 'It's time'."
Shaw talked to the press one final time on Monday and said, in part,"Stanford changed my life and our program changed a lot of lives."Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter."Watching some of these guys be drafted in the NFL and have great careers, it's magical," he said."Those that didn't to to NFL, watching them go to different grand schools, medical school, law school and go start companies. Magical. Almost like it wasn't real.
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