GRR: College Men
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.
Many of the major college games this weekend were really scrimmages, but there were some straight results we want to bring you.
Navy beat Mount St. Mary's in a game that was way, way closer than the score makes it appear.
It's warmup time and a lot of D1 college teams are testing out their lineups.
We've already seen some results from last week, and earlier this week Kansas and Lindenwood's 2nds battled in some not insignificant heat in a game that was called early due to lightning. So really hot and thunderbolts from the sky. Nice.
The Liberty Conference D1 schedule kicks off in a week with the first conference games, so this week is a quick runway for everyone.
It's a relatively tight schedule as these teams try to squeeze as many 15s games into the fall as possible. Teams have one week off and other than that go week-to-week to get nine games in before the NCR playoffs kick off.