Stanford football coach David Shaw wants to keep running back Bryce Love from thinking like golfers who shoot a low round one day, and then wonder why they're not making as many birdies the next day.
Shaw won’t worry if Love is trailing last season’s 2,118-yard pace at any point in 2018. “This year’s about him getting bigger, stronger, being more versatile – different things, adding to his game,” Shaw said last month during the Pac-12 Media Day. But “we’re not going to do the Bryce Love stat watch.”
So the school's promotion of Love, the 2017 Heisman Trophy runner-up, will have to go beyond the numbers.