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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 5243436, member: 6620"] Good morning all. After I pulled out the bottle of Irish Whiskey from between my hip and the TV room floor.....;).....I will admit to finding this out from an ESPN scroll. A few of you reached out to see what was up and -- as is my wont -- took some time to ponder and research (post-game presser and local press write-ups.) My take: [LIST] [*]Liv admitted to being conflicted about staying in college vs. WNBA, as she explained in post-game comments. In retrospect, I should've honed in on the way she referred to "college" rather than Notre Dame. [*]Plus, she just turned an ankle in the NCAA tourney and her knee may be bothering her after a whole first season back. In short, her body can use a break rather than plunge into yet another intense season. And there is no Olympic break this summer for WNBA rookies. [*]As noted, she's leery of a lot of things in the WNBA, so perhaps the CBA negotiations can address some of these concerns before the '26 draft. [/LIST] Meanwhile.... [LIST] [*]She's a Double Domer (undergraduate degree and masters from ND) and a bit tiring of the school scene. Plus -- this is important -- her best two friends on the team, Maddy Westbeld and Sonia Citron, are out of eligibility and won't be back. Miles and Westbeld live together. [*]NIL. It's rumored U$C paid Kiki Iriafen some $800,000 leave Stanford for the Trojans. Chavez went to Oklahoma for monies reported to be north of that. [*]So, Liv could be looking for an NIL deal, play somewhere new for a year while being rewarded financially and see what the redone CBA contract does for rookies....got to be better, less restrictive than it is now. [/LIST] Yes, it would/will be shocking to see 'Liv anywhere else in college, but this is a whole new ballgame. Yikes. Once again, I thank her for all the thrills she supplied to Irish fans, the effort she gave and wish my fellow ND alum the best going forward. [/QUOTE]

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