For decades now, Stanford has served as a beacon for college athletics.
Other departments envy the success, the academic prowess and that endowment ($36 billion).
Cardinal athletic programs have won 134 NCAA championships, the most of any school, and it has claimed the NACDA Directors’ Cup as the nation’s most successful college athletic department in 26 of 29 years.
Not to be outdone, the university, academically, ranks No. 3 in America.
And yet, despite those lofty accomplishments and dazzling numbers, the school's athletic department is homeless — a rudderless ship adrift in the ocean of change that is college athletics, the victim of a money-grabbing exodus from its neighbors.