What Harbaugh managed to do at Stanford may be as impressive as what Saban built at Alabama .
Stanford is a school that has the strictest academic requirements in big - time D - 1 football that eliminates nearly every blue - chip recruit from the recruiting pool .
What Harbaugh managed to do at Stanford , a school that has the strictest academic requirements in big - time D - 1 football that eliminates nearly every blue - chip recruit from the recruiting pool , may be as impressive as what Saban built at Alabama .