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Although I feel some of these things you wrote.. I don’t think all of this was clear from the beginning.. there’s a lot of what it’s. No one knew Tara would retire. Would Kiki have stayed if she hadn’t? Who would have known Kiki would have had such a breakout year when the season started… would she be in a place as such a coveted player, had she not had the year she had? 

These are things that we may never know and I don’t think women’s basketball is in a place where you can keep players committed to any one team. It’s as now it’s about building super teams like free agency is in place, but now it’s about chasing NIL money. Kiki went back home, so maybe there was some family personal stuff because she seemed really happy at Stanford.

Anyway, we may never know the answers to any of these things.

Figured as much. It’s sad to see this become a reality. Oh well same as with Betts last season, I wish her well, but hope others step up and have a Kiki improvement and I’ll always be optimistic about the future. I cannot wait for next season.

Well, it's official, Kiki to U$C.

Maybe I’m missing something, but this sure seems like a monumental coaching staff failure/ screw-up. If you know that Iriafen is going to graduate in three years and leave, you do absolutely whatever is necessary NOT to lose Betts, otherwise you have NO experienced big to follow Brink. If you DON’T know that Iriafen is considering/planning on going into the portal and leaving after this year, you aren’t doing your job. Of course, if Iriafen misled the coaches about her intentions, well, spare me all of that “sisterhood” garbage.  On that front, it would interesting to know the going price for selling out one’s sisters.

I hope Iriafen is happy with her new situation. I also hope USC gets drubbed repeatedly next season…

[petersalas]

Although I feel some of these things you wrote.. I don’t think all of this was clear from the beginning.. there’s a lot of what it’s. No one knew Tara would retire. Would Kiki have stayed if she hadn’t? Who would have known Kiki would have had such a breakout year when the season started… would she be in a place as such a coveted player, had she not had the year she had? 

These are things that we may never know and I don’t think women’s basketball is in a place where you can keep players committed to any one team. It’s as now it’s about building super teams like free agency is in place, but now it’s about chasing NIL money. Kiki went back home, so maybe there was some family personal stuff because she seemed really happy at Stanford.

Anyway, we may never know the answers to any of these things.

Figured as much. It’s sad to see this become a reality. Oh well same as with Betts last season, I wish her well, but hope others step up and have a Kiki improvement and I’ll always be optimistic about the future. I cannot wait for next season.

Well, it's official, Kiki to U$C.

Maybe I’m missing something, but this sure seems like a monumental coaching staff failure/ screw-up. If you know that Iriafen is going to graduate in three years and leave, you do absolutely whatever is necessary NOT to lose Betts, otherwise you have NO experienced big to follow Brink. If you DON’T know that Iriafen is considering/planning on going into the portal and leaving after this year, you aren’t doing your job. Of course, if Iriafen misled the coaches about her intentions, well, spare me all of that “sisterhood” garbage.  On that front, it would interesting to know the going price for selling out one’s sisters.

I hope Iriafen is happy with her new situation. I also hope USC gets drubbed repeatedly next season…