Worst D1 schools for running

Temple, maybe.

Sacred Heart Univ.

Fairfield Univ.

Univ of Hartford

Plenty of other d1s you haven't heard of im sure

Vanderbilt also pretty bad, they don't even have a track team if i recall

Anybody ever get in touch with the Eric runner from TCU? I was talking to a guy I met who runs at UT in Austin and told him about this article and he wanted to know about it too.

D1 suXors wrote:

Sacred Heart Univ.

Fairfield Univ.

Univ of Hartford

Plenty of other d1s you haven't heard of im sure

Vanderbilt also pretty bad, they don't even have a track team if i recall

Simply not true here. Sacred Heart does very well with what they have. There are at least 6-7 schools in their own conference that are worse.

OSU was 2nd at outdoor Big Ten Meet. Michigan and Michigan state went 1-2 in xc but they are near the bottom in track. Rutgers put all of their scholarships into some studs so they may have a good future at Nats while getting crushed at the Big Ten meet with no real depth. There are only 12 scholarships to go around so teams have to decide if they want to be good at track or XC. OSU chose track while Michigan chose XC. It is not a money issue. Most schools have billions laying around but they can only give a combined 12.6 scholarships. Furman and ASU are great at XC and Florida and Texas A&M are great at track. There aren’t too many schools who are terrible at both unless they have gone the non scholarship route for Title IX like Vanderbilt.

D1Runner19 wrote:

It blows my mind every year that a school as prestigious as TCU[...]

Thanks for that intro, prevented me from reading the rest of your verborrhea. You need to get out more, bud.

Well this was kind of a weird article to find out about but I can see how it's a topic some people are talking about. There are a lot of reasons that the TCU Distance program is the way it is, and many of the issues would be an easy fix on TCU's part but I don't think it's really my place to talk about the TCU Distance program. I competed for my freshman year and I can say that I enjoyed it, but at that time I was ready to leave the sport and focus on other things for my post-grad career. Regarding Glenn Lostritto and Harrison Greer, we're all still in touch a lot and they're both doing just fine. Again, I don't think it's my place to talk about the TCU program and how to fix it or how to better retain their runners on this site. I'm still at TCU and I can still say that coming to TCU was the best decision I've ever made, regardless of all that happened with XC/ Track. Like someone said on this article earlier, my times (which were 15:34, 9:42, and 20:03 4-mile) we're honestly mediocre AT BEST in terms of D1 college competition so it's really not a big deal. It's a great school for what I'm studying, great other sports teams and tailgates, and it's a fun time to say the least. I do hope the program takes a turn for the better but nothing I say on this site will really fix that or help solve the problems. I hope this cleared up at least a little bit but that's all I'd really like to say. Go Frogs

-Eric V.