[81alum]

After being a scholarship athlete for four years, not being offered a scholarship in the fifth year is a good reason to leave.  School is expensive.  If I was Carrington I would definitely have resentment about it at some level.  As best as I recall at the time there were no cardboarders saying she left because no scholarship was offered.

We discussed this extensively on the Cardboard and speculated about all kinds of possible reasons, but the most obvious one was that the only available scholarship had already been promised to Wilson at a time when we thought Carrington would complete her year of eligibility in her fourth year, but then she didn't, and that was that.  The only way to keep her would have been to break our promise to Wilson and pull that scholarship back, and Tara wasn't going to do that.

As far as holding an extra scholarship in reserve, that is a legitimate point, and one I have thought about.  It is not as if our 15th player usually contributes very much on the court.  But Tara seems to think that it is unethical to horde scholarships to Stanford for strategic purposes.

[81alum]

After being a scholarship athlete for four years, not being offered a scholarship in the fifth year is a good reason to leave.  School is expensive.  If I was Carrington I would definitely have resentment about it at some level.  As best as I recall at the time there were no cardboarders saying she left because no scholarship was offered.

We discussed this extensively on the Cardboard and speculated about all kinds of possible reasons, but the most obvious one was that the only available scholarship had already been promised to Wilson at a time when we thought Carrington would complete her year of eligibility in her fourth year, but then she didn't, and that was that.  The only way to keep her would have been to break our promise to Wilson and pull that scholarship back, and Tara wasn't going to do that.

As far as holding an extra scholarship in reserve, that is a legitimate point, and one I have thought about.  It is not as if our 15th player usually contributes very much on the court.  But Tara seems to think that it is unethical to horde scholarships to Stanford for strategic purposes.