Stanford streak in danger

[Zanzman]

We would look a lot better if we were playing Butler and Providence instead of each other



You do know those are fighting words here in NC

Virginia?

 

[Vowelguy]

You missed the important writing in green text.

Time to come out of the bunker.

 

[TheFarmFan]

You missed the important writing in green text.

Don't worry I hear you'll be annexed in a weeks' time and then all the cheerwine in the world can be yours!

 

[Plebe]

Except that she didn't need to graduate in three years and could have stayed a fourth, and the inducement to leave (purportedly) was an $800k NIL offer from U$C that Stanford either wouldn't or couldn't match.

This figure is mind-blowing to me. 800k for one year? She's a very good player, but how many pro women players in the entire world are pulling in that much a year?

 

[cancontent]

Time to come out of the bunker.

Nope. Cheerwine needs to figure a way to be available across the border.

Don't worry I hear you'll be annexed in a weeks' time and then all the cheerwine in the world can be yours!

Hey, absorbing our insane amount of debt as a trade off? Hmmmmm. Too bad there's no one to approve that offer up here right now. If you guys can wait until March or June, this could be the key to making negotiations happen!

 

[TheFarmFan]

This figure is mind-blowing to me. 800k for one year? She's a very good player, but how many pro women players in the entire world are pulling in that much a year?

I don't call it U$C just because it's a cheap shot at a historically unethical rival. The institution's longstanding MO has been to buy its success rather than earn it, and unfortunately she's just the latest example. Or do you think it's a coincidence that U$C has suddenly emerged as a top contender after 30 years wandering in the desert?

 

[packwrap]

I don't call it U$C just because it's a cheap shot at a historically unethical rival. The institution's longstanding MO has been to buy its success rather than earn it, and unfortunately she's just the latest example. Or do you think it's a coincidence that U$C has suddenly emerged as a top contender after 30 years wandering in the desert?

Your killing me, here I thought I'd found the "last student-athlete".

I even found out during a lull in LSU/Vandy that Kiki's m.s. at U$C is in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. I think that $800k may be starting a design business.

You are right, U$C funded JuJu, Kiki, TVO and the kids.

If Stanford decides to join the arms race, there is plenty of dough available.

 

[TheFarmFan]

Your killing me, here I thought I'd found the "last student-athlete".

I even found out during a lull in LSU/Vandy that Kiki's m.s. at U$C is in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. I think that $800k may be starting a design business.

You are right, U$C funded JuJu, Kiki, TVO and the kids.

If Stanford decides to join the arms race, there is plenty of dough available.

As much as I hate being an irrelevant afterthought this season (although thanks to @Vowelguy, apparently not so irrelevant cough cough), I really hope Stanford doesn't join the arms race. The whole reason why I love my alma mater so much is the principled effort to try to keep everything in balance. If we drop academic standards and engage in pure pay-to-play, let's just drop the "college" part too and make it a minor league team.

In college I took meals in the same cafeteria as Wade Trophy Winner Candice Wiggins, was in a 12-person seminar with Tim Morris and Dan Grunfeld the year they were #1 in the country, and went to senior prom with a group that included a three-time NCAA champion tennis player. But off the field, they were regular students just like me, in section with me, stressing about finals in the basement of Green library with me, and having waaaaay too much to drink before Athlete Formal with me. It was the epitome of what we once called a "student-athlete," and it's pretty sad to think those days are numbered, if not already gone.

 

[Vowelguy]

MAJOR mistake that I didn’t begin thread this way:

 

[ucbart]

I wonder how Stanford will deal with NIL. Stanford will always be great in Olympic sports, because, it's Stanford. But the major NIL sports like football and basketball, will have a very hard time, IMO.

 

[packwrap]

I wonder how Stanford will deal with NIL. Stanford will always be great in Olympic sports, because, it's Stanford. But the major NIL sports like football and basketball, will have a very hard time, IMO.

Curious too. If you can get $8 million in 'fake NIL' to play QB at Duke, you no longer need that Stanford degree to make your first $10 million.