GRR: College Men
The lesson in the top four teams in men’s DII college championships is that tough competition makes you strong - except when you are talking about Minnesota-Duluth.
As reported by Rugby Today, the CRC 7s has released its list of teams at the main tournament in 2016:
The teams already invited are: Arizona, Arkansas State, Army, Boston College, Cal*, Clemson, Dartmouth^, Drexel, Indiana, Kutztown#, Life, Michigan, Navy, University of Notre Dame, Penn State, South Carolina, St. Joe’s, Temple, UCLA, and Virginia Tech.
Fall DI rugby is done and it’s time to select some award-winners; we here at Goff Rugby Report World Headquarters have combed the games and teams to bring you the best, and here they are.
All of these awards are for the fall only. So we will revisit these awards in the spring and expand on them to include 7s, as well.
As college rugby teams do a better job of attracting more athletic players to the game, creating varsity and quasi-varsity programs, and breaking away from the old club model, it’s worth noting when an old-school club team does well.
In making AIC the #1 DI men’s college team in the fall I had to make a few assumptions, because AIC didn’t play everyone in the country; I had to make assumptions based on the style of play, and the athleticism, and the type of players other teams have.