Worst D1 running schools?

Miami and Boston College are usually bad. Vanderbilt men are pretty bad most years. Just for some bigger schools that you'd think would have ok teams. Why look for bad teams though? It'd be better to run for a decent (not even good) d3 than most these bad teams in this thread, unless you're going there for academic reasons or their style of training just happens to be what you're looking for, what works for you..

I think you have to look at the MAAC to see the worst D1 track teams. Niagara and Canisus have women's only teams that couldn't beat most high school teams. They are just there to make the school title 9 compliant. Siena isn't much better. You aren't allowed to compete on the team if you want to do any event less then 800, if you can believe that.

Arizona State used to be good but now has really fallen off. Can barely compete with schools like San Jose State/ Fullerton/ UCSB. They are afterthoughts in the Pac12 when it comes to distance.

I know this is an old thread, but I found completely the worst d1 running school. The University of Denver is D1 in the Summit league and doesn't have men's or women's track or xc.

Central Michigan

Look if I were an AD at a school where weather wasn't perfect and resources were a problem I would rec' to my President that it would be a mistake, to get heavily into CC/T&F. I think D1 schools like Fairfield , Fordham, UVm LaSalle, et.al are probably doing it right. It's too much of an individual sport to put that much money in, unless you have a long tradition like Villanova.

I also wouldn't recruit East Africans (like a certain school in Central Ma does) it's pointless. So you win meets with older guys, so what?

Where I would be more into it, is a state like NJ with a significant talent base from which to draw. Why Rutgers and PSU aren't better IDK?

So if I could draw good American kids--esp in a 500 mile perimeter-- I'd try to have a strong program. That's the bottom line. If I couldn't do that I'd probably just go through the motions like a lot of good schools do just getting credit (from the NCAA) for fielding 3 Div.1 teams--must have 7 total-- even though I'm really not.

Metoo wrote:

I know this is an old thread, but I found completely the worst d1 running school. The University of Denver is D1 in the Summit league and doesn't have men's or women's track or xc.

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Chuck Schick wrote:

Colgate should be an amazing program. Is it their coach that's the problem?

Hamilton, NY is beautiful and hilly. I spent a weekend there and still dream about running around that town and the campus which is essentially built into a hill. Hamilton in the fall is pure paradise. And because Hamilton is such a small town, there should be not a lot of distractions so you actually focus on your training.

The tuition is extremely high the academic programs are great which attracting rich and smart people. Do rich and smart kids NOT want to run? I guess they like lacrosse more....

This Colgate?

Florida atlantic university is pretty bad, 20;00 5k guys making their top 7.

Colgate is a very selective school and their coach has 0 pull in admissions, so the only way they're attracting talent, is by having a very fast kid who is very bright and doesn't mind a small school in the middle of nowhere

What about UMass Amherst?

St. Francis (NY) seems pretty bad, last in a weak conference (NEC) in both Men and Women last year

Men results

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/51800_m.html

Women results

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/51800_f.html

Oral Roberts' University in Tulsa is GARBAGE

winnr1 wrote:

Oral Roberts' University in Tulsa is GARBAGE

That and Colgate both sound like they should be dentistry schools but they aren’t.

Jokll wrote:

Nicholls State

You better take that back! 2019 will be their year, you’ll see!

St. Peter's in the MAAC, no question

There are D3 schools at regionals that finish 35th out of 48 teams or whatever and could literally sweep this team in a dual.

They averaged nearly 35 minutes at the MAAC champs, and from what I can tell, nobody on their current roster has ever broken 30 minutes for an 8k

Ovo sounds wrote:

Jokll wrote:

Nicholls State

You better take that back! 2019 will be their year, you’ll see!

YA got dat Raight we cumin’ hard fo da 19 into 2020, Ben runin frum dem big gattas awl summa!

D3scrub wrote:

St. Peter's in the MAAC, no question

There are D3 schools at regionals that finish 35th out of 48 teams or whatever and could literally sweep this team in a dual.

They averaged nearly 35 minutes at the MAAC champs, and from what I can tell, nobody on their current roster has ever broken 30 minutes for an 8k

Most of their sports teams are really terrible. Their baseball team went 0-38 in 2017, 2-42 in 2018, and 5-46 this past season. Their softball team went 1-42 in 2016, 6-34 in 2017, 7-41 in 2018, and 9-47 this year.

Their track team used to be somewhat decent though. They used to win titles only entering events from 400-down until Monmouth joined the conference.

Teams in the meac are pretty bad at XC.