College XC teams with a “team house”?

There was an apartment across from the track that used to be handed down year after year by members of the cross country team. It had footprints on the ceiling from previous classes. It was always crawling with people who would live in some of the walk in closets. At some point it fell out of control of the team.

There seems to be a general theme here of most schools having an informal group of XC team members that all get a house and live together for their soph, jr, and sr years. My oldest son didn't run XC or T&F because he had skills and played D1 soccer. He and three others lived in a house together. Four other team members lived in a house two doors down and four other team members lived across the street but about six houses down the block.

Since I didn't have good enough skills to play at the D1 level I ran D1 XC and T&F instead. We had an informal team house as well. Good times!

87 Davis St., nuff said

if the school has houses off-campus and there isn't a track house, that should be a huge red flag

GreenHobbit wrote:

I've been inside the Brown house and I've gotta say it was pretty gross... I've only been to one other house so I guess I don't have much to compare to, but the Brown house was messy to the point of being borderline disgusting to live in... For instance one of the couches had a permanently damp armrest

Permanently damp from the sweat of winners!

I fondly remember the house’s front porch, lack of laundry facilities, and proximity to historic Hope High.

Plus, who can forget the inimitable Gary, our landlord, who had three rules:

1. No pets

2. No pets

3. My son’s in prison

Liberty U

Consistent results developing recruits + highly valuable degree.

Live in the best house of all: The House of God!

DIII Recruit wrote:

Liberty U

Consistent results developing recruits + highly valuable degree.

Live in the best house of all: The House of God!

Except you have to put up with Jerry Falwell and his version of Christianity. He kind of copied and pasted BYU's policies and established Liberty in 1971. If you like being dictated to then these types of universities appeal to some.

Studies at the university have a conservative Christian orientation, with three required Bible-studies classes in the first year for undergraduate students. The university's honor code, called the "Liberty Way", prohibits premarital sex and private interactions between members of the opposite sex. Described as a "bastion of the Christian right" in American politics, the university plays a prominent role in Republican politics. Liberty promotes the Christian right viewpoint on matters such as gender roles and abortion. The university teaches creationism alongside the science of evolutionary biology.

It sounds like you're being a bit reactionary without understanding what the bible has to say. I think you should reevaluate where you're coming from and how your tone might affect people reading these posts. There's a human behind this screen you know.

Everything that you posted is exactly what I'm looking for in a college experience.

DIII Recruit wrote:

Everything that you posted is exactly what I'm looking for in a college experience.

Then Liberty University is the place for you to go.

Falwell's Follies wrote:

DIII Recruit wrote:

Everything that you posted is exactly what I'm looking for in a college experience.

Then Liberty University is the place for you to go.

I would like you to apologize

I know Penn State has a team house with most of the guys in it. Although, that is XC. Im not sure about track though.