[81alum]

Some confusion here.  Lifetine cardinal is the NIL group for Stanford and not part of Stanford but a separate corporation. 
We did match a usc offer usc upped it plus kiki graduated in three years with the purpose of going to usc

The budget for lifetine Cardinal for WBB is in place. I urge you to join.  Or at least look into it

So Lifetime Cardinal came up with $800k and Kiki took the $800k from USC instead?

Sounds like what BobK is saying is we matched U$C's offer and then they increased it. Presumably we refused to get in a bidding war and things were done at $800K. Also 81Alum is saying she wanted to stay and BobK is saying she graduated in 3 years so she could leave.
So some differences of opinion here.

Bob always knows more inside stuff than I do ;)  I trust his judgment.  I'm only reporting what someone who sits near to me at Maples, and who is fairly well plugged in to the WBB establishment, told me.  So maybe slightly more than a rumor.

In any case there is no doubt she graduated,  but there is also no doubt that she did not NEED to graduate if she wanted to stay for a fourth year, something she was originally inclined to do.  Once she decided to leave then exercising the graduation option was obvious.

[81alum]

Some confusion here.  Lifetine cardinal is the NIL group for Stanford and not part of Stanford but a separate corporation. 
We did match a usc offer usc upped it plus kiki graduated in three years with the purpose of going to usc

The budget for lifetine Cardinal for WBB is in place. I urge you to join.  Or at least look into it

So Lifetime Cardinal came up with $800k and Kiki took the $800k from USC instead?

Sounds like what BobK is saying is we matched U$C's offer and then they increased it. Presumably we refused to get in a bidding war and things were done at $800K. Also 81Alum is saying she wanted to stay and BobK is saying she graduated in 3 years so she could leave.
So some differences of opinion here.

Bob always knows more inside stuff than I do ;)  I trust his judgment.  I'm only reporting what someone who sits near to me at Maples, and who is fairly well plugged in to the WBB establishment, told me.  So maybe slightly more than a rumor.

In any case there is no doubt she graduated,  but there is also no doubt that she did not NEED to graduate if she wanted to stay for a fourth year, something she was originally inclined to do.  Once she decided to leave then exercising the graduation option was obvious.