D1 schools go home devastated at Louisville!

Yup. Many P5 programs lose to DII.. got a full ride to UGA running 9:30 for 3200m to fill out the squad.

GV State won both the Gold and Blue races. Quite the depth.

Alan

It appears no one on let's run is ever faced in a true devastation in their life. Division 1 teams are not devastated by not winning an NCAA championship. Watching your child die is devastation, watching your spouse slowly with her away from cancer is devastation, most of the goes home devastated threads on here are annoyances are inconveniences at best.

I bet you’re fun at parties

But he's perfect for wakes.

There is no need to be over dramatic about things that aren't anywhere near devastating. Save that for a tual tragedies.

It's a letrun meme. Relax. Its part of the fun of reading and posting here. You're a bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington.

My friend ran for UGA about 4 years ago. He ran 9:10 in HS and walked on. The guys on the team compared notes and determined that there was only 1 total scholarship in distance. You are not being honest.

Grand Valley State makes sense to beat a bunch of the DI's. They have 20,000+ students and a public school that devotes a lot of resources to cross country. While Lee puts a bunch of resources into distance running, they also are a small private school in the middle of nowhere TN. Good job to them for knocking down some big schools.

School enrollment does not mean that much in college. It's different than HS. School size isn't the deciding factor in what division a college is in. GV has a strong distance program for DII but they actually put resources in other event areas and were well rounded overall in track last season.

But it means something when it is a public school. Many instate kids go there and want to continue running. They also put a bunch of money into distance while many D1 schools are underfunded or putmoney into sprints.

Georgia doesn't even take 9:30 walkons. They don't give any scholarship money unless running 9:00.

If a private school decides to put a lit of their resources into their distance program they can complete with public schools. Look at the results of DII indoor/outdoor track Nationals and try to tell me they don't put a lot if resources into non-distance events as well.

?? They have 12.6 scholarships. Unsure what you are claiming.

I'm claiming GV puts a good portion of their 12.6 scholarships in non-distance events. Most of these XC runners they have probably receive small partial scholarships. They are not in any way close to a distance only program. Is that more clear?

Yes. They are good because they are a public school which is the opposite if what you were trying to prove. Their tuition is cheap and the school is large so they get a lot of instate kids.

I nor you proved that at all. SVSU and Ferris St are public as well. Back in the day Hillsdale was one of best distance programs in the GLIAC. Why? Because they had a good coach put a lot of resources into their distance program. Ashland is a private school and brings in sprinters and throwers that could go DI. Wake Forest is a small private school that went all in on distance and did great at DI XC Nationals. Whether you are public or private, 12.6 scholarships is the limit. It's up to the school to decide if they want to use it and it's up to the coaching staff to recruit well. Even then, bringing in a bunch of talent guarantees nothing.

School size means nothing. Ohio St dwarfs GV, is public, and is mediocre at XC. Being public matters more for HS than it does for college. Even then, most of the best HS athletes where I live go to private high schools and were recruited to go there.

Ohio State would kill them in track. Large public schools have an advantage in D2. Wisconsin schools do well in every D3 sport because ether a system of large public schools.