What do y'all think is the worst d-1 bcs conference(ACC, Big 12, Big East,Pac 10, SEC, Big 10) mens cross country team?
my picks from worse to more worse
5)Baylor (Big 12)
4)USF (Big East)
3)Purdue (Big 10)
2)University Of Miami (ACC)
1)University Of Arizona (PAC 10)
Is arizona really worse than USF or Miami?? No you just have some stupid agaenda. Werent they pretty good recently?
Northwestern, BigTen
Men -- no team
Women -- do they again have a team?
Oregon State
Men -- no team
Women -- not too much of a team yet, trying to improve year-by-year.
UA will have to be watched a bit, as it has not been that long since they had reasonable prospects.
i don't have a agenda. I'm talking about whose had the worst team this past year. UVA got last in their conference by 100 points and their top man wouldn't have cracked the top five on any other team in the pac 10. UVA has been pretty good in the past but presently have been horrendous and by far the worst team in the Pac 10. That being said it would be a close meet between those five teams.
really bad wrote:
UVA got last in their conference by 100 points and their top man wouldn't have cracked the top five on any other team in the pac 10. UVA has been pretty good in the past but presently have been horrendous and by far the worst team in the Pac 10. That being said it would be a close meet between those five teams.
Who is "UVA"? Is that the University of Virginia?
Yeah, UVA is Virgina.
sorry U of A
UNLV
When did the BCS expand into XC?
The University of Arizona men's cross country team is very young, not very good, and for the first time in James Li's coaching career there are no foreigners on the team. However, the Wildcats did NOT finish 100 points behind the others. Actually, only two runners represented U of A, hence, no team score. For someone with a strong opinion, you are not only wrong in calling Arizona UVA, but you are misinformed in the area of team scores as well. It seems to me that you should call yourself really inaccurate rather than really bad.
From the big 12 champs:
12th
Baylor 345
51
68
71
77
78
80
81
The 6th place team had every man in before Baylor got 1 across the finish line. Wow.
vanderbilt
You are right, AZ didn't finish last by 100 points, they finished last by 94 and did bring a full team. Maybe you should get YOUR facts straight; it was regionals where they didn't bring a full team.
1. UO - 39
2. Stanford - 55
3. CAL - 70
4. UCLA - 97
5. ASU - 105
6. UW - 162
7. WSU - 166
8. AZ - 260
I stand corrected. Thank you. I was referring to regionals. I am not Jame Li. AZ Coach has been my screen name for some time.
I know - I know - I can see already being accused of being a called a wimp. But in the era of Title IX, where at some schools it is a year by year ordeal just to field a team, I just wonder what the heck the objective of this post is, except maybe to make a mid-level college runner feel better about their own program.
I may be looking too positive on the past, but I truly believe that a school can have a good college program if they can get 4:20 high school milers to come and put in the right kind of training consistently. But to do that it takes recruiting not just a few 4:20 milers (we forget that is essentially what Doug Padilla and Marc Nenow were in high school), but a significant bunch of them in a supportive environment - continuously. And frankly, at all too few schools, it is just very hard to claim that a truly supportive environment exists for that to happen. Now, I am not excusing the truly bad programs or coaches, but I hazard a guess that a great many struggling D1 programs are just trying to survive, and just can't get the 6-8 4:20 milers a year (who are good students, too, because they are not going to waltz in with lousy academics) in a sufficiently supportive environment to have them running 30:00 minute 10k's consistently. Heck, my guess is that many coaches don't want to be noticed by the AD for fear that the AD may turn the budget axe on the team. In some sense this post dovetails with those other posts here that relate demise of our sport and the heyday of the track clubs in the late 70's/80's - where the D1 schools were producing lots of runners for their clubs - and I am not sure trolling for which team is the "worst" is all that helpful when survival for many teams is on the line.
sorry az coach 94 points behind the second to last team and their first man wouldn't have made the top 5 on any team at pac 10's. While I know that U OF A is a very young team they still were one of the worst teams in major d1 cross country this past season,in my opinion the worst but not by far the worst.
How about Hawaii? They were 29th in the NCAA west regional XC meet.
No wonder June Jones said aloha and went to Southern Methodist.
the mwac isnt a bcs conference
really bad wrote:
i don't have a agenda. I'm talking about whose had the worst team this past year. UVA got last in their conference by 100 points and their top man wouldn't have cracked the top five on any other team in the pac 10. UVA has been pretty good in the past but presently have been horrendous and by far the worst team in the Pac 10. That being said it would be a close meet between those five teams.
UVA Mens cross country qualified for nationals this year finishing 4th in their region. What team are you talking about?
University of South Carolina.
We have a terrible women's team, and no mens team. Of course that doesnt stop us from having a terrible mens distance team when track comes around. Mostly due to the fact that our coach (not Frye, the XC and distance coach) is world class moron.