[WBB fan]

I thought the 'choice' between Wilson and Carrington might simply have been timing. Wilson asked first before Carrington's injury. So if a commitment was already made, there simply was not another scholie available.

I could be wrong, but I think this has nothing to do with the number of scholarships.  Not with Russell making $88 million in 2020 alone.

 

I recall somewhere that there is a limit on the number of players who are able to travel regardless of how many are on the team. If my memory serves, only 15 players can travel to away games on trips regardless of how much money is available for a player to pay their own way.

We can, sadly, count on one of 16 players being injured at any given moment in time, and if a miracle happened and all were healthy, those least likely to play could alternate on the road trips. 

We had 16 on this roster:
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-bas...er/2013-14

We were going to carry Ruef as a 16th non scholarship player on that team.  I seem to remember she wound up getting a scholarship after all, but clearly having a 16th non scholarship player, like Wilson could be, is feasible.

Ruef was so eager to return that she decided to be on the team, while she was in a masters program in engineering, even tho there was no scholarship. Then Toni Kokenis decided that her concussion situation was too severe for her to play and she gave up her scholarship after the season began (or maybe it was after practice had begun -- can't remember, but it was after the school year had begun). That was the scholarship that Ruel was given.

[WBB fan]

I thought the 'choice' between Wilson and Carrington might simply have been timing. Wilson asked first before Carrington's injury. So if a commitment was already made, there simply was not another scholie available.

I could be wrong, but I think this has nothing to do with the number of scholarships.  Not with Russell making $88 million in 2020 alone.

 

I recall somewhere that there is a limit on the number of players who are able to travel regardless of how many are on the team. If my memory serves, only 15 players can travel to away games on trips regardless of how much money is available for a player to pay their own way.

We can, sadly, count on one of 16 players being injured at any given moment in time, and if a miracle happened and all were healthy, those least likely to play could alternate on the road trips. 

We had 16 on this roster:
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-bas...er/2013-14

We were going to carry Ruef as a 16th non scholarship player on that team.  I seem to remember she wound up getting a scholarship after all, but clearly having a 16th non scholarship player, like Wilson could be, is feasible.

Ruef was so eager to return that she decided to be on the team, while she was in a masters program in engineering, even tho there was no scholarship. Then Toni Kokenis decided that her concussion situation was too severe for her to play and she gave up her scholarship after the season began (or maybe it was after practice had begun -- can't remember, but it was after the school year had begun). That was the scholarship that Ruel was given.