[BillBradley]

If Stanford would have matched the $750K NIL deal, would Kiki have stayed?

If Stanford had matched it, would U$C have upped it?

Independent of the counterfactuals regarding the numbers, we will never know what the decision process actually was for what did happen, let alone what might have happened. KiKi made a choice for her own reasons. She may or may not be able to give you a clear line of reasoning about how she decided and so far she has not. Probably it will stay that way, so theorizing about the "how and why" is pointless.

You're missing something - it's fun (at least for some of us) to speculate and to discuss hypotheticals. So that's the point.

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If Stanford would have matched the $750K NIL deal, would Kiki have stayed?

was she accepted to a grad school program?

She could have stayed for another year regardless, right? 

I'm of the opinion that if Stanford would have offered her the same NIL deal, she would have stayed. I think that was the major factor in the decision. She is taking risk going to USC, in a different system, playing with Juju. She could have a terrible year there. She knows she would have been the star at Stanford and she would have been option #1, with the same players and mostly the same coaching staff. Will be interesting to see how this works out for her.

[BillBradley]

If Stanford would have matched the $750K NIL deal, would Kiki have stayed?

If Stanford had matched it, would U$C have upped it?

Independent of the counterfactuals regarding the numbers, we will never know what the decision process actually was for what did happen, let alone what might have happened. KiKi made a choice for her own reasons. She may or may not be able to give you a clear line of reasoning about how she decided and so far she has not. Probably it will stay that way, so theorizing about the "how and why" is pointless.

You're missing something - it's fun (at least for some of us) to speculate and to discuss hypotheticals. So that's the point.

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If Stanford would have matched the $750K NIL deal, would Kiki have stayed?

was she accepted to a grad school program?

She could have stayed for another year regardless, right? 

I'm of the opinion that if Stanford would have offered her the same NIL deal, she would have stayed. I think that was the major factor in the decision. She is taking risk going to USC, in a different system, playing with Juju. She could have a terrible year there. She knows she would have been the star at Stanford and she would have been option #1, with the same players and mostly the same coaching staff. Will be interesting to see how this works out for her.