Team has to be fully-funded w/ scholarships (non-ivy). I honestly can't think of one as all the best academic D1 schools tend to have strong teams.
Team has to be fully-funded w/ scholarships (non-ivy). I honestly can't think of one as all the best academic D1 schools tend to have strong teams.
Miami has weak distance despite being the most reputable academic college in Florida.
Vanderbilt. Primarily because they don't reward athletic scholarships for guys and don't have men's track.
Thanks a lot, Title IX.
Boston College definitely.
UC San Diego has just voted to go from D2 to D1. As soon as they make the move they will be under a 4 year "blackout period" where they can't send teams to any D1 championships. All their teams will suck until they get out from under that.
Easily Miami. Best University south of the mason Dixon and a god-awful xc team
miami fo sho wrote:
Easily Miami. Best University south of the mason Dixon and a god-awful xc team
...their men's & women's teams are pitiful.
Wofford College is probably one of the worst athletically and best academically in the US.
There are some private universities like Northwestern (no mens XC), Purdue, Rice. You could probably add Georgia Tech in here. Maybe Wake Forest isn't terrible, but they're also not going to NCAAs in XC. There's a bunch more like this.
Miami qualifies as having a crappy team but I'd hardly call it an academic powerhouse. Was "recruited" there with middling PRs of 1:59 in the 800 and 4:30 in the mile. Could have called myself a "D1 athlete" but instead chose a good school.
All of the schools in the Patriot League
Lehigh
Lafayette
Holy Cross
Army
Navy
Bucknell
Colgate
miami fo sho wrote:
Easily Miami. Best University south of the mason Dixon and a god-awful xc team
I think the folks at UF and Georgia Tech would dispute the best university part, as would Emory, Tulane, and Texas/Rice/TAMU if you extend Mason Dixon out that far.
pat league wrote:
All of the schools in the Patriot League
Lehigh
Lafayette
Holy Cross
Army
Navy
Bucknell
Colgate
Add BC and Bryant to this list and you've got a pretty good start
coach d wrote:
miami fo sho wrote:Easily Miami. Best University south of the mason Dixon and a god-awful xc team
I think the folks at UF and Georgia Tech would dispute the best university part, as would Emory, Tulane, and Texas/Rice/TAMU if you extend Mason Dixon out that far.
South of the Mason Dixon? Not even close.
Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, & University of Virginia are probably the best. Then Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, and Davidson.
Purdue and Georgia Tech are not private schools. They are typical state schools with crap distance teams.
coach d wrote:
There are some private universities like Northwestern (no mens XC), Purdue, Rice. You could probably add Georgia Tech in here. Maybe Wake Forest isn't terrible, but they're also not going to NCAAs in XC. There's a bunch more like this.
Northwestern is a great school but doesn't even count because not only do they lack men's XC, they also don't have a men's or women's track team. Purdue isn't private, it's public, and it's also probably more mid-pack in both academics and athletics. Maybe it's great at engineering.
The OP specified fully funded with scholarships... 0 of the schools you listed have that.
dontknowjack wrote:
The OP specified fully funded with scholarships... 0 of the schools you listed have that.
That's right. And Bryant an academic leader? No way.
Fact checker wrote:
Purdue and Georgia Tech are not private schools. They are typical state schools with crap distance teams.
Matt McClintock?
duke
william & mary (not sure if fully funded though)
there are many that have excellent academics and so so teams--georgia tech, notre dame, cal, ucla, wake. i was going to put unc in this list, but they did finish pretty high at xc nats in 2014, so you can't say they're so so.
there are many, many teams with so so academics and bad teams. too long to list.
and, for the record, miami does not have excellent academics, but i do agree that their xc team is bad; sprinters are excellent though.