I know I'm echoing a lot of Trim's thoughts, but I'll add my
I thought Palo Alto was pretty nice. Lots of expensive cars and people with money. Same obviously with Mountain View and Silicon Valley in general. Didn't spend really any time in San Fran proper. It was cool to see Google's self driving cars going around and seeing Tesla after Tesla. Felt like a rich futuristic wonderland.
I thought their stadium was nice, but not premier, ie "good enough". WSC and Vanier are premier, their whole stadium felt like our current east side grandstand. Lots of exposed steel work and prefab concrete sections but it was the whole stadium. Liked the seating in general which all had seat backs and easy to use and find concessions. Overall the atmosphere was incredibly underwhelming. I know their students weren't there, but it was like being at a big high school game. Some noise but really only when something was going on. If the script was flipped and we had the game at BSFS, I'm pretty sure if any Stanford fans made it out they would have had their minds melted by the intensity and passion our fans would have for that type of game.
Their band was the most overrated thing I've ever seen, tiny, not loud, and not even really that creative. Totally overblown by the media and they made fun of KS the wizard of oz way. Big ass whoop. Literally a 3 year old could think of that.
After the whole trip I think we should feel really good about the state of our athletic facilities. Stanford is rich, unimaginably so compared to lil ol K-State, and consistently wins National Championships year after year, and we posses in a lot of ways comparable facilities or exceed them, especially football. I walked by several of their sports stadiums and complexes as I made my way to football stadium and everything they had felt just like the football stadium. Nice but not premium or mindblowing, just "good enough" Solid but nothing that either K-State doesn't already have, is planning on having, or could easily achieve. I left not feeling at all ashamed of what they have compared to us except for their very consistent and nice weather.