Thanks for posting that interview! After listening to it, you all have summarized it perfectly.
She sounds just as intelligent and thoughtful as she always has. It is hard not to admire her. Reading between the lines, she absolutely never did mention coaching at Stanford. Of course, she has not yet graduated and she might open up more when she is gone. But, for now at least, I thought she was very responsible and respectful to keep any differences she had to herself.
I also thought it interesting that she is still undergoing physical therapy. Was her surgery last summer much more serious than we thought?
I think the revealing comments were about being in "the best position to be drafted." That might indeed be about more than coaching, but could have to do with competition for playing time on a team. Our team desperately needed a slasher down the stretch this year, so I think she could have been a key player for us next year. I also think Tara could find a way to put her, Lexie, and Haley on the floor at the same time. But perhaps she thinks she would be more the center of an offense at one of the other three schools.
Then there is this, and it may be the most reasonable explanation of all. She may have learned all she can learn from Tara, and thinks she could learn something new from one of those other coaches. It would not necessarily be an indictment on Tara to say she has "graduated" not just with two academic degrees, but with a Tara basketball degree, and now its time to learn something new. A Masters of Geno.
And Di might have been talking directly to my posts when she answered the academic degree speculation. It sounded like she reads the Cardboard. "I have two degrees. I'm set." But she is planning to come back somewhere for an advanced degree in psychology or criminology later, so my tea-leaf reading was not entirely wrong! Just wrong about the timing. (And I suspect what she has earned is a double major or a secondary major. Unless things have changed since I was faculty, Stanford does not award two separate bachelors degrees. Not to diminish a double major, which is really tough to pull off.)
Let me conclude by saying thank you to Dijonai Carrington. Whatever your reasons for leaving, you have given me and all of the fans much joy in watching you over the years. The immense heart that you play with, the rebounding, the acrobatic and semi-out-of-control drives to the basket, the enthusiasm you displayed was a joy to behold. I missed it throughout most of last season and spent months hoping to have another chance to see you play for us. Now I must let go of that hope. Now I have to hope that you won't display all of those wonderful basketball qualities when you play against us! But good luck, Di, as you pursue your dreams.
She sounds just as intelligent and thoughtful as she always has. It is hard not to admire her. Reading between the lines, she absolutely never did mention coaching at Stanford. Of course, she has not yet graduated and she might open up more when she is gone. But, for now at least, I thought she was very responsible and respectful to keep any differences she had to herself.
I also thought it interesting that she is still undergoing physical therapy. Was her surgery last summer much more serious than we thought?
I think the revealing comments were about being in "the best position to be drafted." That might indeed be about more than coaching, but could have to do with competition for playing time on a team. Our team desperately needed a slasher down the stretch this year, so I think she could have been a key player for us next year. I also think Tara could find a way to put her, Lexie, and Haley on the floor at the same time. But perhaps she thinks she would be more the center of an offense at one of the other three schools.
Then there is this, and it may be the most reasonable explanation of all. She may have learned all she can learn from Tara, and thinks she could learn something new from one of those other coaches. It would not necessarily be an indictment on Tara to say she has "graduated" not just with two academic degrees, but with a Tara basketball degree, and now its time to learn something new. A Masters of Geno.
And Di might have been talking directly to my posts when she answered the academic degree speculation. It sounded like she reads the Cardboard. "I have two degrees. I'm set." But she is planning to come back somewhere for an advanced degree in psychology or criminology later, so my tea-leaf reading was not entirely wrong! Just wrong about the timing. (And I suspect what she has earned is a double major or a secondary major. Unless things have changed since I was faculty, Stanford does not award two separate bachelors degrees. Not to diminish a double major, which is really tough to pull off.)
Let me conclude by saying thank you to Dijonai Carrington. Whatever your reasons for leaving, you have given me and all of the fans much joy in watching you over the years. The immense heart that you play with, the rebounding, the acrobatic and semi-out-of-control drives to the basket, the enthusiasm you displayed was a joy to behold. I missed it throughout most of last season and spent months hoping to have another chance to see you play for us. Now I must let go of that hope. Now I have to hope that you won't display all of those wonderful basketball qualities when you play against us! But good luck, Di, as you pursue your dreams.