[crackpot]

Stanford and USC will be proud.

Understand and appreciate the wry humor of your post. It triggered a slightly different thought in my mind that may even be off topic. With that said, I think Stanford should embrace Kiki.  Yes, in large part because she is successful. By all accounts she is a class act and , as much as I would have liked her to stay , I don’t blame anyone for taking $750,000 and a chance at a national championship rather than a rebuilding team at a school that wasn’t really into NIL.

I think we can present Kiki as a Stanford graduate who gave us years of hard effort and almost single handedly got us a step deeper in the NCAA tourney with a great performance. Yes she left, but she left before a rebuilding year  where  her presence might have added five wins to our record but would not have enabled us to be much of a factor in the national championship picture. She got her Stanford degree; she is a Stanford alum and we should embrace her careeer.

As a wise old man once advised me “if you can’t fix it, feature it.”   Kiki is one of ours .

I 100% agree with this post.  If you are a Stanford graduate you are an alum and forever affiliated with the university no matter where you might attend graduate school. And Kiki certainty considers herself a Cardinal. She wore Stanford gear in her Instagram post where she celebrated being selected as a WNBA All Star: Kiki Celebration Dance 

I've also seen other Stanford sports celebrate grad transfers.  In May, for example, Stanford soccer tweeted about Kyra Carusa being called up to the Ireland National Team despite the fact she had transferred to Georgetown as a grad transfer with a year of eligibility left. 

We also don't know the circumstances of any given player's grad transfer (like whether they failed to gain admission to the Stanford grad program of their choice-as happened to me), and we shouldn't want to know. Academics are important at Stanford and we should not treat any successful graduate as persona non grata because they ended up attending a non-Stanford grad school.

I've long been annoyed by SWBB ignoring former players who actually graduated, though several sports trip over themselves touting Tiger Woods (AFAIK, not a grad). I'd rather they all be celebrated.

[crackpot]

Stanford and USC will be proud.

Understand and appreciate the wry humor of your post. It triggered a slightly different thought in my mind that may even be off topic. With that said, I think Stanford should embrace Kiki.  Yes, in large part because she is successful. By all accounts she is a class act and , as much as I would have liked her to stay , I don’t blame anyone for taking $750,000 and a chance at a national championship rather than a rebuilding team at a school that wasn’t really into NIL.

I think we can present Kiki as a Stanford graduate who gave us years of hard effort and almost single handedly got us a step deeper in the NCAA tourney with a great performance. Yes she left, but she left before a rebuilding year  where  her presence might have added five wins to our record but would not have enabled us to be much of a factor in the national championship picture. She got her Stanford degree; she is a Stanford alum and we should embrace her careeer.

As a wise old man once advised me “if you can’t fix it, feature it.”   Kiki is one of ours .

I 100% agree with this post.  If you are a Stanford graduate you are an alum and forever affiliated with the university no matter where you might attend graduate school. And Kiki certainty considers herself a Cardinal. She wore Stanford gear in her Instagram post where she celebrated being selected as a WNBA All Star: Kiki Celebration Dance 

I've also seen other Stanford sports celebrate grad transfers.  In May, for example, Stanford soccer tweeted about Kyra Carusa being called up to the Ireland National Team despite the fact she had transferred to Georgetown as a grad transfer with a year of eligibility left. 

We also don't know the circumstances of any given player's grad transfer (like whether they failed to gain admission to the Stanford grad program of their choice-as happened to me), and we shouldn't want to know. Academics are important at Stanford and we should not treat any successful graduate as persona non grata because they ended up attending a non-Stanford grad school.

I've long been annoyed by SWBB ignoring former players who actually graduated, though several sports trip over themselves touting Tiger Woods (AFAIK, not a grad). I'd rather they all be celebrated.