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Stanford’s first session of spring ball has come and gone, and certainly the tone was set by Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football David Shaw back at December’s National Signing Day when asked about the potential lack of healthy players in the offseason, Coach responded by saying “Nobody cares what we do in the spring.” Certainly that’s true compared to the fall, when the money’s on the table and the season is happening, but spring football exists for a reason. In an era when coaches at all levels are fighting against the reductions in practice time and in the full-contact practices they can have, Stanford has been more than happy to leave practices on the table as well as throttle down on intensity in the name of player safety and player availability. That’s certainly been the case this spring with fewer than 40 bodies available for the team’s six practices over the last two weeks. That being said, some developing storylines have definitely emerged as the Cardinal focuses on winter quarter final exams, some of which may not resolved until the fall, when everybody will certainly care what the Cardinal does.

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