wtf. where do you see that? thought she was happy at Duke. is UCLA getting the elite California girls band back together? whose left from that 2021/22 group?
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I think the 3 girls all probably wanted to go to UCLA/USC, but there was no money or academic boost available during their recruitment. Now there is! It's an easy sell to get them home.
I'm joking about USC, but if they hired a known distance coach and gave him 5 scholarships, the same thing could happen.
I don't know if I would go there yet. Frias is from Manhattan Beach, less than 20 miles from UCLA. Maybe she got homesick. UCLA is an excellent academic school, on par with Duke. If she were going from Duke to an obviously inferior school from an academic standpoint, then I would be suspicious.
This is the same with Mia Barnett. Another California athlete that was at Virginia, another excellent academic school, and had the chance to go to another excellent school close to her hometown of La Crescenta.
I think the 3 girls all probably wanted to go to UCLA/USC, but there was no money or academic boost available during their recruitment. Now there is! It's an easy sell to get them home.
I'm joking about USC, but if they hired a known distance coach and gave him 5 scholarships, the same thing could happen.
It can't be because there was suddenly money available. You aren't allowed to contact athletes about recruiting if they aren't on the portal already. Thus, there's seemingly no legal way they would know what scholarship they'd have available to them.
With how quickly they entered the portal and how quickly they made their decision, it definitely seems like the decision was made before they entered it. It all seems really shady and I have a feeling Brosnan may be using a lot of his California high school connections to reach these athletes indirectly. On the flipside, maybe he doesn't know these rules yet because he's new to the job.
Maybe your guilty of stupid speculation. And don’t realize how crappy the east coast is and west coast people always move back.
Or maybe it's weird that an athlete commits a day after entering the transfer portal? How did they have time to visit and even set up phone calls in that time?
Barnett was home for Xmas, and it all happened quick and unplanned.
Frias talked to the other ladies, and off we go. Interesting to see if she moves right away for outdoor, or if she has to finish spring semester and go for xc in fall. Mid academic semester not ideal transfer time.
wtf. where do you see that? thought she was happy at Duke. is UCLA getting the elite California girls band back together? whose left from that 2021/22 group?
Either Mia Chavez or Sophia Nordenholz would be good pickups and skill level in line with Frias/Mcdonnel. Doubt anything like that happens though