Why does the ncaa not have an "allstar" meet combining the top d1,d2,d3 runners?

Because D2 and D3 are like the minor leagues. Sure, there could be outliers who would do well in D1. They'd have the option to transfer.

Because you touch yourself at night

Probably has something to do with cost, and the fact that runners are pooped after nats and want to go on their base after that.

All in all, I support what you are proposing. The top 3 or so guys in each division really need a change of scenery from battling their usual suspects. It gets monotonous and filled with doldrums.

Who's going to pay for it?

Can the NCAA sell it to TV or on streaming, and is is worth the effort?

Who can host the meet and put enough butts in the seats besides Eugene? Mt. SAC? Austin? Do you want to put it in a D2 or D3 venue to neutralize any advantages the D1 athletes have?

Right now the best D2/D1 matchup would be Hana Moll of Washington against Brynn King of Roberts Wesleyan in the pole vault.

Austin or ATL would be fine.

I personally do not think home track advantage is as big in track as it is in basketball or football.

UT doesn't have anyone except Yusuf Bizimania anyways.

I hear you about the cash flow, but allstar meets are not about fans or money. They are about giving our young men and women 1 more chance to compete against the best of the best outside the regular season. All the people that I know who qualified for allstar meets didn't do it for publicity or scholarships. They dud UT to have fun because they wanted to race again after states or nationals.

Surely the ncaa, if they care about the kids at all, can consider something like this. Instead, upwards of 90% of their business meetings focus on the future regulations or NIL deals and who I am allowed to recruit and not recruit. The ncaa is liberal organization, and their big government rules just keep getting more and more restrictive and communistic.

-the430miler

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I'm not sure why the other categories even exist. If you can't make it in D1 after high school, why are you even still trying?

Shut up, chuch. UW-Lax would beat like half of the D1 teams in a dual meet.

During an Olympic/WC year, the all stars are focusing on the trials after the collegiate season, and they probably wouldn’t be interested in adding some novelty meet to the schedule.

The college all stars can race at USATF nationals. No need for an extra meet.

I mean, to be honest, it'd just be really unnecessary. The only people who'd put up a fair fight would be the outliers in D2/D3. It'd practically just be a repeat of NCAA Division 1 nattys

Don't give me wrong, I love my D2 and D3 runners, but it wouldn't be any fun for the runners nor the audience to just watch them get absolutely stepped on by the immensely talented D1 prodigies. They have their own category for a reason.

The D2 and D3 schools I respect a lot because they're composed of the athletes who may not have as much natural talent, but still are dedicated to the sport and put in the work to improve more and more.

For example, the only person in Division III who could put up even a remote fight against the Division I runners is Sam Blaskowski, and even then he's a once-in-a-generation talent

Maybe because there's people who don't thrive off of just raw talent and actually have a passion for the sport and want to keep working hard for it?

Not everyone has the privilege of going D1

What's interesting to me -- and yes, you are correct -- is how runners have done when they've made the jump. Matthew Wilkinson, Marcus Weaver, Alex Philip, and others have crushed.

It makes me wonder how a Emma Kelley or, as you said, a Sam Blaskowski would fare if they made the move. I haven't seen any news about it but Alex Rhodes from Puget Sound should absolutely be on a D1 squad next year.

The talent is there. It just peaks at a different time.

Also, Austin really hadn't filled the seats since the leo Manzano era. The only texas runner who has generated an even mild audience since then is Julian Alfred, and she's graduated.

What you are saying about track being an unpopular sport for spectators in America, the people who complain about that are the runners. Nobody else. We are well aware of it and are used to it now.

As far as WHY track and xc are unpopular to fans, we've had this discussion before. The most heavily viewed sports in America are the violent once which tale no strategy, patience, or mentality. Football and ufc/boxing are the biggest spectator revenues, and every bit of it is due to America's fascination with instant gratification violence.

-the430miler

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Coach and ornithology professor

A university in San Antonio

I'm just thinking this through a little bit more -- is a question of talent and when it peaks, or is it a question of needing to step up a level of coaching, facilities, and dedication?

I'm an old-timer but I'm thinking about this sprinter I ran against back in the day. He was like 6'6", didn't use blocks, and didn't run track at all in high school -- he played tennis. He was running low-47 in his second year in the sport. What would have happened if he went D1?

If you were really a college coach you'd know why this is a dumb idea.

Do the research. List the D3 runners who would be top D1 this year. It won't take long.

It used to be that something like the top three finishers in the D2 and D3 championship track meets and the top fifteen (I may be a bit off from the actual numbers) in the 2 and 3 cross country meets were automatically eligible to run in the D1 championship meet. I don't know when that changed nor why. I know that the same, D2 and 3 champions in the D1 meet, was the case with wrestling. I believe that was changed immediately after the year when the D2 champion won the D1 championship and a lot of D1 athletes and coaches found that embarrassing.

This was a fantastic idea. I'm sure the D1 coaches were mad though that D3 talent was taking up D1 spots though. Honestly I think all divisions need to be hold their meet at the same location during the same week for track and on the same day for XC. This would ensure better attendance.

Usatf is the all stars. Athletes who don't qualify would be way back at an all star meet anyways, so there is no need.