top 5 worst D1 colleges in 2017 xc

Why don't you check last year's results and get back to us then?

chiming in wrote:

Why don't you check last year's results and get back to us then?

teams tend to change on a year-by-year basis

NJ Institute

TN State

Evansville

Austin Peay

Mercer

Honorable mentions

Gardner-Webb

Redford

Other contenders that I've seen get beaten down in the first couple meets:

Fairleigh Dickinson (which actually lost easily to New Jersey Institute at Lehigh Invitational)

Longwood (which lost easily to Radford)

Texas State is probably the worst one I can think of but I haven't looked at other states. What makes a D1 school bad for running? Is it that they don't do much recruiting or the coaches?

nicholls in Louisiana

colgate for sure

the UMass Chang dynasty

LoneStarXC wrote:

Texas State is probably the worst one I can think of but I haven't looked at other states. What makes a D1 school bad for running? Is it that they don't do much recruiting or the coaches?

Texas State's women are not great, but don't belong in this conversation. Their men's program will likely be top half of their conference and top 10 in South Central Region. Lots of DI schools even in Texas that will be behind them...PVAM and Texas Southern and even UTSA to name a few.

Lots of things factor into the strength of a school. Coaching, recruiting, academics, access to places to run, ease of international applications, and institutional sponsored academic aid all play a roll.

In the end you be the best you an be with what you have.

Nicholls is EASILY the worst D1 team. Just look at their results last year.

Is the NCAA going to just keep making more teams D1 and never move anyone down? At what point does/did "D1" not really mean anything anymore?

Until XC or track become revenue sports like Football or M/W Basketball, "D1" does not really mean anything. It's up to the school/AD/coach to invest in XC or track with scholarships, facilities, budget, coaching salaries, etc. There are lots of D1 schools that fully fund scholarships for Football and M/W Basketball and all the other sports are underfunded, so you can have good D3 schools that are better than bad D1 schools in XC.

BC sucks and has for a long time

Even Walsh, a D2 school who was only 9th at 2016 D2 Midwest regionals for Women's XC, beat 8 of the 11 D1 schools at National Catholic Invitational that happened last weekend. Lost to Notre Dame, Dayton, and Marquette. Beat Saint Louis, Duquesne, Holy Cross, Canisius, DePaul, Detroit Mercy, St. Bonaventure, and Mount St. Mary's.

LoneStarXC wrote:

Texas State is probably the worst one I can think of but I haven't looked at other states. What makes a D1 school bad for running? Is it that they don't do much recruiting or the coaches?

Can be a lot of things - lack of funding, school is a sprint school with a head of program that completely blows off XC (probably the most common), school isn't great academically and therefore struggles to draw in students.