The Credit-Up program will get you ~80% back minus any donations. The games are priced per opponent so you might get $6 back for Alabama A&M and $16 for Ohio State. Either way you can recover some costs if you can't attend.
The U generated $1.6m in revenue for WBB in 2025, so the ROI necessary to justify adding a player at anything near that cost.... just doesn't seem plausible
No disrespect to any of the transfers, but everyone left because they weren't good enough to get the minutes they desired. That's what you want as a program.
I would not take it as a hint of anything specific for the portal, but rather memberships contributed to retaining our current roster and additional members/contributions will allow us to make noise in the portal
DTA you can 100% designate where your contributions go. If you want to support transfers in the portal and retaining our current players DTA is where you will have the biggest impact, IMO
The timeline is the timeline. I don't dispute it.
It's certainly plausible that Tracey wanted to play with her sister and we had a roster slot and no money.
Another plausible scenario that fits your timeline: "Hey Zoey, if you commit we'll offer your sister in the portal. Sound good? Great...