Dahlia Frias transfering to UCLA

Why would that matter? Most top colleges aren’t even majority white anyway

Why downvote?

Because of Title IX, the ratio of men-to-women athletes must equal the ratio in the student body. In a school with football, which has a huge, all-men roster, that is balanced out by adding women's only sports and/or fielding large rosters on women's teams. Football schools will often limit walk-ons and really limit roster size for non-football men's sports to compensate for all the men on the football team. They try to also boost womens' teams roster size, like this for example:

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Mizzou Women's Softball Team Says Title IX Is Killing the Sport

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University of Missouri administrators forced the team to accept weak players, for equality.

Link:reason.com/2016/05/20/mizzou-womens-so...

Downvoter, how do you suppose a university with football makes up for the 80 men on the football team? UCLA undergrad enrollment is 59% women and 41% men, so they need 59% women in their student athletes. That's just Title IX reality. I'm not criticizing Title IX, just explaining why women's rosters are not really limited in colleges that have football.

Actually, looks like UCLA has 112 guys on the football roster:

uclabruins.com

2022 Football Roster

The official 2022 Football Roster for the UCLA Bruins

Link:uclabruins.com/sports/football/roster

Doing the math, 112*0.59/0.41=161, UCLA needs 161 women to balance out the 112 men on the football roster - and that's on top of starting with a 59% women/41% men balance in the other sports without considering football.

Most schools use track and rowing to try and offset the football rosters. The website below is the data schools provide to the government for Title IX purposes. Schools get creative. And before anyone says: “how many track kids?!” A distance runner will count 3 times: xc, indoor and outdoor.

The racial breakdown at Duke are in line with the racial breakdown at Mira Costa (her high school). In fact, technically Mira Costa was more white than Duke so the cultural transition would have felt seamless for Dalia. She grew up surrounded by white people and most of her peers were white. And after North Carolina, there are more California residents at Duke than any other state so the concept that Duke is so culturally alien to someone like Frias that it would cause her to transfer is just not reality.

Lets just stop with the rampant uninformed speculation and let her be. so many clueless know-it-alls and anonymous "insiders" on letsrun spewing nonsense. we dont know the situation and we may never know unless she decides to talk about it. lets just wait for this to play out and cheer her on wherever she lands.

I. Rex, this is what is wrong with you and society. You are flat out lying. As a Hispanic academic, this frustrates me that people speak like they know something. Duke is less than 10% Hispanic. In fact, Duke is around 7%, Hispanics are significantly less represented than the population... furthermore, Mira Costa High School is more than double that of Duke, at 15%... so get your damn facts straight before you spouse anti-racism tirades.

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Duke Diversity Statistics

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At Duke University, Duke diversity statistics show that there are a total of 16,172 students, consisting of 6,717 undergraduate students.

Link:admissionsight.com/duke-diversity-stat...

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Mira Costa High School

Mira Costa High School (MCHS, "Costa") is a four-year public high school located in Manhattan Beach, California that first began operating in 1950. It is the only high school in the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. Th...

Link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Costa_High_...

Spare me. You think I posted that without looking up all that information before hand? I know what kind of angry pedantic losers crawl through this sewer of a site just looking for opportunities to make an argument out of nothing. Youre just yet another.

Here is what I said: "The racial breakdown at Duke are in line with the racial breakdown at Mira Costa." The reason I said that is because the minority enrollment at Mira Costa is listed at 39% while the minority enrollment at Duke is listed at 34% (current Hispanic percent is 13% not 15%. You are citing figures from 2016/17. Mine are from 2021. White growth has been trending upward in the past decade. I mean have you been to Manhattan Beach?)

Here is what I said: "In fact, technically Mira Costa was more white than Duke" The reason I said that is because Mira Costa is listed as 61% white while Duke is listed as 43% white. That Duke figure excludes entirely International students which would likely add to the Hispanic percentage if they had been included by race. AND would have increased that 34% minority figure cited above to over 39% since Mira Costa doesnt include and keep statistically separate an international student population like Duke does. So, based on those ACTUAL figures, please feel free to point out how anything I said goes against them.

And of course none of this matters and is an exercise in pedantic rabbit hole hair splitting which is all people do here on this site. Meanwhile a real human being is going through a turbulent time trying to figure out her path forward at a crucial moment in her young life and we are publicly spewing out rampant speculation about it and pretending to know what went on in her head without knowing her from Adam. why not focus on her well being rather than this foolish fake indignance by means of trivial made up arguments.

Why you support big corporation over student athletes? You trying to make the Kids look bad for transferring are you a spokesperson for big corporation? Corporate clown?

"so the concept that Duke is so culturally alien to someone like Frias that it would cause her to transfer is just not reality."

So speaking of rampant speculation, aren't you just speculating right back by claiming what is and is not her reality? %'s of races/ethnicities are only part of the issue of "culture." Two schools that are both X% black, Y% hispanic, z% asian, etc. (very broad terms with lots of cultural variance within those groups) may have very different cultures depending on what the makeup of that group is and how those groups participate in or lead aspects of campus life.

Best to simply say, let's not speculate and if need be, let's correct the racial makeup assumptions. No need to then claim what the "reality" of the culture someone experiences is. If she says something illuminating about her reasons at some point, so be it. If she doesn't then so be it.

I don't really think there is much turbulence here. Going from 1 positive at Duke, acc xc freshman of the year/school record dmr to a new positive at UCLA/home. She will no longer have to camp out to get basketball tickets.

ok Im good with that. Well stated.

Regarding this thread, if a kid from California wants to transfer back there and to be closer to home/family instead of going to college and competing on the other side of the country, then what's the big deal? With the coaching change UCLA became a viable option.

What happens if the new head coach that replaces Avery Anderson after his contract is not renewed this summer doesn’t cut their current scholarships (almost impossible at a UC) but stops awarding distance scholarships and just hires their buddy to coach the distances?

That could happen anywhere so it shouldn't be included in the calculation of school choice.

Would Brosnan really have signed w/UCLA on only a 1 yr guarantee?

Assistant coaches are almost always on a year to year basis.

Plus a new head coach can bring in any distance coach they want.

1) Pac12 assistants rarely get more than 1 year contracts.
2) UC assistants NEVER get more than 1 year contracts

3) Nobody else wanted the job

4) Brosnan had no other choice if he wanted “in.”

and that same 400m runner, the ACC Champion, the one who had the baton knocked out of her hand, ran the fastest 400m split of any runner in the Championship DMR. Stuff happens.