Stanford's Lili Thompson transfers to ND

[ochoopsfan]

Has the ND SID resigned yet?

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Per twitter.

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Next chapter: Former Stanford star @Lili_Thompson postpones @WNBA, transfers to @ndwbb #NotreDame #FightingIrish

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Fighting Irish welcome Thompson

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Did NOT see that coming. Luck of the Irish.

 

[Charliebball]

Nobody mention this to that Duke WBB coach please.............she doesn't like it when the "Big Girls" bring in transfers............

Lili Thompson - 2015-16 Women's Basketball Roster - GoStanford.com | Stanford Athletics

 

[Dawson]

 

[chrissaran]

Not a problem. UConn with AZ, BC and the incoming freshman will be loaded.

 

[msf22b]

Does she have to wait a year or is she a grad student?
Makes the slowish. ND backcourt a lot quicker...but who sits?

Ed: Answered above...


she has decided to reconcile her decision

Umm...not exactly English as I was taught...
Shouldn't complain..make the same sort of mistake myself... lots.

 

[JordyG]

Health issues relating to concussions are not to be slighted. I know this is conjecture but clearly Ms. Thompson wants to play and she feels her condition is under control. Enough for her to play elsewhere. If the doctors say she can go, that's good enough for me. I can with all sincerity wish her only the best from here on in.

 

[Suebird10fan]

By next fall she may be the only player in the country who knows what it's like to beat UConn!

 

[SCGamecock]

Nice pickup for ND after Allen graduates... contribution on day one.

 

[JS]

ND Insider

 

[VAMike23]

 

[ochoopsfan]

Health issues relating to concussions are not to be slighted. I know this is conjecture but clearly Ms. Thompson wants to play and she feels her condition is under control. Enough for her to play elsewhere. If the doctors say she can go, that's good enough for me. I can with all sincerity wish her only the best from here on in.

My understanding is Ms. Thompson was not sitting out, her senior year at Stanford, due to any concussion related issues. She was able to play, if she wanted.

 

[Florida Fan]

ND loses graduate transfer Taya Reimer and gains graduate transfer Lli Thompson, the latter the better deal for Muffet's mob, clogging her already talent-rich bench. I would be worried except for a certain team from rural Connecticut.

 

[Checkmate]

ND loses graduate transfer Taya Reimer and gains graduate transfer Lli Thompson, the latter the better deal for Muffet's mob, clogging her already talent-rich bench. I would be worried except for a certain team from rural Connecticut.

nice addition for ND, they have plenty of guards, but no proven pure point guard on the 17-18 team.

There is only one team playing for a championship in 17-18. Everyone else is playing for the final four.

 

[Wbbfan1]

Seems like Lili and her father took advantage(used) of Stanford. Remain on an athletic scholarship but not play, retaining another year of playing. Now go to Notre Dame on an athletic scholarship that she wouldn't have if she had full filled her requirement by playing for Stanford this year.

 

[Kevin G]

WOW!! this raises a whole new level on transfers.

 

[UcMiami]

Wasn't there another player about 8 years ago who couldn't get cleared to play at Stanford because of concussions who transferred to TX where they would clear her? Can't remember her name.

 

[Wbbfan1]

It was Jamie Carey, Point Guard.

Wasn't there another player about 8 years ago who couldn't get cleared to play at Stanford because of concussions who transferred to TX where they would clear her? Can't remember her name.

 

[CocoHusky]

Seems like Lili and her father took advantage(used) of Stanford. Remain on an athletic scholarship but not play, retaining another year of playing. Now go to Notre Dame on an athletic scholarship that she wouldn't have if she had full filled her requirement by playing for Stanford this year.

Good for the father I say. Taya Reimer did the same thing at ND was allowed to complete her degree while not playing to be immediately eligible at MSU.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Seems like Lili and her father took advantage(used) of Stanford. Remain on an athletic scholarship but not play, retaining another year of playing. Now go to Notre Dame on an athletic scholarship that she wouldn't have if she had full filled her requirement by playing for Stanford this year.

Yep, yep, yep.

 

[Dillon77]

WOW!! this raises a whole new level on transfers.

Well, smack me on the side of the head. Emerge from a project and find a nearly three-year starter from Texas who was in California coming to northern Indiana (to sign in the middle of winter, no less.). Wonder how long this was in play? When MM announced Vaughn and Patterson, she said that was the class up that point. Hmmm...

A lot of my fellow "McGraw Benchers" (including me) have been trying to figure what PG Muffet and Niele Ivey would be pursuing in the class of 2018 since Lindsay Allen is graduating and projected "next up" Ali Patberg has been plagued with injuries and illness. In fact, most thought we'd only have Ali next year. That obviously is not the situation now with Thompson and Patberg.

In fact, MM is so particular about her Point Guards (she was one, after all, as was Niele Ivey), I bet they're awfully particular about whom they go after in 2018 to join Patberg. Stay tuned.

 

[Go/huskies]

Seems like Lili and her father took advantage(used) of Stanford. Remain on an athletic scholarship but not play, retaining another year of playing. Now go to Notre Dame on an athletic scholarship that she wouldn't have if she had full filled her requirement by playing for Stanford this year.

I really think that's unfair to say, I mean unless you know the family personally.