emeraldvlly - of course, there are no hard and fast rules in all this. A low D1 on the West Coast might be a high or mid D1 on the East Coast. Things are relative. Evan Longoria did not get a scholarship out of high school and instead wound up at a JUCO. He is arguably one of the top young players in all of baseball and many people obviously missed on him.
I think living on the west coast as you do, the rules and classifications are a little different. By that, I mean that there are more D1 players than there are D1 opportunites out there. To use your example, I would be reluctant to classify any school in the WCC as a low D1 even though some of them do not have winning records. At the end of the day, each person has to decide for themselves what a low D1 opportunity is.