Brief answer: Not enough guys qualify academically, which makes their available player pool very small. That in turn makes their portal use near-zero which is often described as a death knell these days.
Unsubstantiated rumors: PED's dating back to Harbaugh's tenure (which has presumably stopped)
The counter argument to that has been improved strength and conditioning regimens, cryo beds and whatever scientific crap Stanford could engineer to improve the body's healing and regeneration. I dunno. Maybe that is possible but I'm not really buying it unless there was just an across-the-board misunderstanding of healing and regeneration in the country and Stanford made major breakthrough's of some kind.
Holy crap the Big 10 sucks ass.
Unranked Northwestern is giving Pedophile State (#6!?) all it can handle.
NW is about as bad as Colorado was last year.
Yep - MSU paid her to talk to their football team. She literally is a professional victim. She collects a fee ($10,000) to go from campus to campus to tell men how bad men are.