I coached for over 5 years at a division I program that had XC only. No scholarship money and I was limited to having 10 women & 5 men on the team. The numbers were to field a team and keep the numbers higher for the ladies to offset football. For compliance reasons we had 4 meets that were home duel meets. Each one had 2 other teams. This counted as 8 meets. Add in our conference and you can see the level of concern from the school. We finished as high as 3rd of 10. Never worse than 8th. The kids ran with a passion. I approached the school about giving us more support. I was told that we didn't matter. I finished that season - I resigned at the end of the season to give them time for a replacement. They didn't even try. Used the assistance baseball coach. He didn't field a full team. They dropped the program.