Remember when a 5-6 record felt like a success? The road from that innocence to the high standards of today turns 25 this year.
Revolutions are a messy business. But sometimes the upheaval brings change for the better. Chuck Gillingham remembers his senior year as all the above.
Second-year coach Denny Green’s philosophy had Stanford’s most experienced offensive lineman accepting a more reduced role in 1990. The fifth-year senior felt change in the trenches, coming in the form of freshman Glen Cavanaugh.
“I was a guy who played every down for three years,” remembers Gillingham, now a prosecutor for the County of Santa Clara District Attorney’s office.