BASHOF: Mike Montgomery reflects on success, calls on Stanford, Cal to ‘figure out what it takes’

BASHOF: Mike Montgomery reflects on success, calls on Stanford, Cal to ‘figure out what it takes’

SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Montgomery was officially enshrined into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame this week following a remarkable college coaching career. But close to 40 years ago, he encountered an issue at the start of his tenure at Stanford. In his first year on The Farm in 1986, Montgomery took the files of about 50 prospective students — the best in the country, he said — to Stanford’s admissions office and walked out with four that the scho…