All variables considered, what is the BEST college to attend as a distance runner?

NAU maybe

Stanford

Harvard

High School guy wrote:

If you had the opportunity to attend any college in the United States to run, what college would it be? As a 5k/10k guy. Only variable to not consider is money. So academics/team/coach/location. What is the BEST college?

Does all variables include having talent?

SDSU Aztec wrote:

High School guy wrote:

If you had the opportunity to attend any college in the United States to run, what college would it be? As a 5k/10k guy. Only variable to not consider is money. So academics/team/coach/location. What is the BEST college?

Does all variables include having talent?

Say you were an 8:55-9:05 guy. So you could go anywhere but you wouldn’t be their top recruit

decent runner wrote:

NAU maybe

Is this a joke?

If not for the forest fires, draught, and Biblical plague of locusts, I'd suggest BYU.

Tnen again, they've gone a little over the top when it comes to their support of the blm Marxists and Bruce Jenner crowd.

Eyestone is the best coach overall to train under.

mr. magoo wrote:

If not for the forest fires, draught, and Biblical plague of locusts, I'd suggest BYU.

Tnen again, they've gone a little over the top when it comes to their support of the blm Marxists and Bruce Jenner crowd.

Eyestone is the best coach overall to train under.

Yeah, eyestone takes 21 year old freshmen and after seven years of training they have some fast times, five kids and sort of a degree.

If you were a D1 competitive athlete the combination of world-class academics and strong athletic teams at Stanford would be hard to beat. If you were not quite that good an athlete there are a handful of options but Williams certainly comes to mind. You can be very successful in life without attending a highly rated college although it can be helpful early in your career to have attended a college well known and regarded. There are very, very few families for whom "money is not an object." We paid right at $400K for my daughter's undergraduate and law school and even though our family income fluctuated between the top 1% and the top 3% of households in the US - this expense has impacted how early I can retire and forced us to make hard choices. Unless you are talented enough as a runner to make a living as a professional after college you should pick a college based on factors other than athletics

anyone who doesn't say Stanford is kidding themselves

Way too liberal for most. Notre Dame for me. Why do you think hundreds of smart and fast kids don't choose Stanford? Nico Young?

Big Boy in the NCAA wrote:

Way too liberal for most. Notre Dame for me. Why do you think hundreds of smart and fast kids don't choose Stanford? Nico Young?

???

there's non mormons at BYU. there are africans who barely speak a lick of english being sent to freaking alabama and arkansas.

athletes are not making their school choices based on politics lmfao

Georgetown

You use BYU as an example? Are you kidding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University

BYU is 99% Mormon. 99% of people choose BYU based on their beliefs. I coach HS Boys and have had dozens run D1. Nearly every one of them considered the sense they got on their visits and the reputation of the schools. Why visit a school and meet with coaches and students and administrators if not to get a sense for the school? One kid turned down Columbia after having an interview with them because he said they were way too liberal for him.

Hey guys, maybe consider a college this kid is likely to run all 4 years at. You can name drop D1 schools but what's to say he's not kicked off the team or relegated to club running after a year or two?

It’s Stanford. And not up for debate.

A distant second is Harvard.

Really? Why is it that most of the fastest runners choose other schools?

Big Boy in the NCAA wrote:

Way too liberal for most. Notre Dame for me. Why do you think hundreds of smart and fast kids don't choose Stanford? Nico Young?

midwest weather isnt great but sure ND is a fine choice in a lot of majors. Depending on your major a lot of schoola have decent programs in one oe two areas. And if you dont really care about team running you can look at the ivies.

The list of top 25 universities that regularly show up at ncaa XC is pretty short...

Long pole wrote:

Really? Why is it that most of the fastest runners choose other schools?

Go check the average career earnings, running or otherwise, of Stanford runners vs the average D1 runners and let me know if running at Alabama is a better idea.

Most of the fastest runners probably choose other schools because they aren’t smart.