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I think this is a loss.  Heal was the most accomplished transfer in last year and IMHO , one of our better players. Yes she seemed a bit slow on defense and didn’t get her shot off quickly enough but she could score and would attack the basket. It would have been nice to have had her for our celebrated Aussie newcomer next year.

If a conscious decision was made to let her go, which I kind of doubt, than you have to ride with the coaches. If it was lack of NIL , we are I real trouble as I doubt she will get big bucks anywhere..unless SMU wants her.

No more illusions about the value of a Stanford degree. Seems to be worth less than one years delta NIL.  All in all,  not a good sign.

I find this situation really odd.  Why come to Stanford for just one year?  Academically it makes no sense, unless she finished her degree.  Athletically, I don't know.  This last season was a down year, and no guarantees (although there's always hope) that it will be much better next year.  So maybe she's looking to be at a winning program where she'll have more exposure.  I doubt she'll get more PT at a higher-ranking program.  Anyway, it's a minor loss for Stanford.  Just odd.

I think that she saw that she would get little playing time behind Swain, Clardy, and Ijiwoye - who are all quicker and more athletic than her. Guards in the ACC are quicker than her and she may want to move to back to the WCC And I agree with BACardinal, she will be able to play in the WNBL and maybe the national team. There are other women's basketball leagues besides the WNBA and the top-tier European leagues.  I wish her every success.

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Maybe we're thinking about NIL the wrong way, at least in part.

We'll get a certain number of 18-year-old freshman recruits interested in graduating from the best University in the world. Others will want to maximize their NIL elsewhere, graduate...and then realize that a Tinkertoy Tech degree is not quite as compelling as that of Stanford. They're 23, they studied hard, graduated, but they have a year of eligibility left, so...perhaps we recruit, hard, all along an undergraduate's career.

This is a board of mostly Stanford alums that made and believe in the 40-year decision - I certainly did and do. It's possible that high school basketball players now may not have that at their first criteria for picking a school - especially when schools are waving bags of money around. And what if it is not Tinkertoy Tech, but Notre Dame or Duke? Those are not bad schools...

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I think this is a loss.  Heal was the most accomplished transfer in last year and IMHO , one of our better players. Yes she seemed a bit slow on defense and didn’t get her shot off quickly enough but she could score and would attack the basket. It would have been nice to have had her for our celebrated Aussie newcomer next year.

If a conscious decision was made to let her go, which I kind of doubt, than you have to ride with the coaches. If it was lack of NIL , we are I real trouble as I doubt she will get big bucks anywhere..unless SMU wants her.

No more illusions about the value of a Stanford degree. Seems to be worth less than one years delta NIL.  All in all,  not a good sign.

I find this situation really odd.  Why come to Stanford for just one year?  Academically it makes no sense, unless she finished her degree.  Athletically, I don't know.  This last season was a down year, and no guarantees (although there's always hope) that it will be much better next year.  So maybe she's looking to be at a winning program where she'll have more exposure.  I doubt she'll get more PT at a higher-ranking program.  Anyway, it's a minor loss for Stanford.  Just odd.

I think that she saw that she would get little playing time behind Swain, Clardy, and Ijiwoye - who are all quicker and more athletic than her. Guards in the ACC are quicker than her and she may want to move to back to the WCC And I agree with BACardinal, she will be able to play in the WNBL and maybe the national team. There are other women's basketball leagues besides the WNBA and the top-tier European leagues.  I wish her every success.

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Maybe we're thinking about NIL the wrong way, at least in part.

We'll get a certain number of 18-year-old freshman recruits interested in graduating from the best University in the world. Others will want to maximize their NIL elsewhere, graduate...and then realize that a Tinkertoy Tech degree is not quite as compelling as that of Stanford. They're 23, they studied hard, graduated, but they have a year of eligibility left, so...perhaps we recruit, hard, all along an undergraduate's career.

This is a board of mostly Stanford alums that made and believe in the 40-year decision - I certainly did and do. It's possible that high school basketball players now may not have that at their first criteria for picking a school - especially when schools are waving bags of money around. And what if it is not Tinkertoy Tech, but Notre Dame or Duke? Those are not bad schools...