GRR: College Men
The Heart of America Conference kicks off with Iowa State at Iowa on Friday, but there’s plenty more to come.
It is a big weekend in what is mostly the preseason in Men's D1A, NCR D1, and D1AA rugby.
Everyone is still testing each other out ... although we do have the Heart of America coming into the regular season (we'll take a closer look at them in an upcoming article).
The Liberty Conference and the Mid-American also gets going.
Iowa Central CC’s second-half surge to defeat Iowa State this past weekend was certainly a team effort, but it’s hard to ignore the contributions of one player.
Takudzwa Musingwini scored three tries against one of the top D1AA teams in the nation, slicing up the Cyclone defense and maybe at times putting fans in mind of a slightly more famous Takudzwa who suited up for the USA.
A lot has been said and written about what rugby is, how to play it, and how to coach it—the World Rugby laws book alone is 160 pages long—and maybe sometimes too much has been said.
Like an efficiently-run halftime talk (something he addresses), Loc Vetter gets at the heart of the game in less than 80 pages, with most of those pages not completely filled.
We make no bones about the fact that our D2 initial rankings involve a lot of guesswork.
Ha! Some might say out penultimate rankings involve a lot of guesswork.
