Down on The Farm, they picked someone homegrown to replace Jim Harbaugh.
Offensive coordinator David Shaw will take the reins of the Stanford football team. Tom Fitzgerald in the Chronicle lists these attributes:
In the past two years with Shaw as coordinator, the offense has twice broken the school record for points in a season.
A four-year letter winner as a Stanford receiver from 1991-94, the Union City native played under Dennis Green and Bill Walsh. He then spent nine years as an assistant coach in the NFL with the Eagles, Raiders and Ravens.
He spent the 2006 season at the University of San Diego as Harbaugh’s wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator before following Harbaugh to Stanford in 2007.
In addition to his coordinator duties, Shaw coached the wide receivers for three years before switching to the running backs last season. He tutored five running backs – Stepfan Taylor, Anthony Wilkerson, Tyler Gaffney, Usua Amanam and Jeremy Stewart – who combined to rush for 2,063 yards in 13 games, an average of 158.6 yards a game.
Taylor’s final rushing total of 1,137 yards was the second highest total in school history, trailing only Toby Gerhart’s 2009 school record of 1,871. Full article
Shaw takes over for Harbaugh, who was hired last week to coach the 49ers.