DIA Rugby News
The USA Rugby Men’s Collegiate All Americans will likely be named Thursday or possibly Friday - at least part of the list, anyway.
The DIA College meetings were held this weekend and the conferences decided to add several teams for the 2016-17 season.
Every conference was represented at the meetings in Colorado, and among the many issues discussed was the addition of college programs hoping to move up.
Among the additions:
Fans of Saint Mary’s will happily point out that on Saturday, the Gaels won pretty much every stat, except the score; and they might point out that Life didn’t really break the Saint Mary’s line; and Life University might just say “yep, that’s right.”
This will be the final 15s rankings of the 2015-16 season. With the championship weekend done and dusted, this is it.
And I have to say, this was hard - very hard. It would have been far, far easier for us if BYU had won the Varsity Cup, because BYU had beaten every team the Cougars had faced. Now, every top team has a sort of fatal flaw.
Playing in their fourth straight USA Rugby D1A National Championship match, the Life U Men's Rugby team put on a gutsy performance to win 24-20 over Saint Mary's College Saturday in Moraga, Calif.