There's persistence, and then there's stubbornness. The wordsmiths in Stanford University's English department could make a case study of football coach David Shaw's play-calling, as he utilizes running back Bryce Love.
Opposing defenses are preoccupied with stopping Love and usually manage to do so for long stretches of games, as Utah did last October at Rice-Eccles Stadium. And then came the dagger, Love’s 68-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
That's why Shaw often keeps feeding him ball, even when running sometimes seems futile. So is Shaw being persistent or just stubborn?
“You go back and forth between the two,” Shaw said Tuesday, as No.