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		<title>Cliff Notes: Let  DI-A  D-I-E</title>
		<description>Discuss Cliff Notes: Let  DI-A  D-I-E</description>
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			<title>mcfaddeninsurance says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/columns/cliff-notes/4732-cliff-notes-let-di-a-d-i-e.html#comment-14962</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If anyone is still following this stream, listen to the RuggaMatrix featuring Rich Cortez and check out where he is driving college rugby. I couldn't agree with him more.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mcfaddeninsurance</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:26:08 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Great Topic says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/columns/cliff-notes/4732-cliff-notes-let-di-a-d-i-e.html#comment-14151</link>
			<description><![CDATA[to support a new Varsity rugby program. Perhaps in the women’s game. I disagree with Jack Clark that it hurts his “brand” to play schools without the same football/basketball status as Cal. A true competitor wants to compete against the best no matter where they are from. Those of you following Jack believing that you will achieve what he has achieved at Cal by taking his path probably don’t realize that he’s leading you down a path that puts him in a position to retain his place at the top of the heap. His intentions are Cal based, not growth based. This is good business operation of Cal on Jack’s part and good business for Cal has not raised the tide of the game over the last 20 years and will not into the future. To sum it up. Do we need branding? Yes, the CRC is fantastic and raises awareness for rugby. Do we need small schools to provide varsity programs? Yes, the more full time players and coaches the better. Is it one choice or the other? Absolutely not.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Great Topic</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:18:20 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Great Topic says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DIA is not a new idea in of itself. At the men's club level Major League Rugby(MLR) and the Super League were hatched out of the idea to have the best teams play each other. DIA, while some was believed to try and achieve that, its premise for creation seemed to really be based on gaining sponsorship, therefore growth. This is the top down branding vs bottom up performance model to attain growth. Both have their place. In DI-A, MLR, and RSL drop out occurred here at home because of the cost of operation of such a league and the inability to gain sponsorship. I support what Pat is saying not for the reasons that he specifically states but because in the short term the teams who can afford it will travel to find competition, ones who can't, will not. Growth in youth rugby is the key to longer term success. I believe there is a sustainable competition for small schools without football and that should be encouraged. There is no economic or legal reason for large schools right now.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Great Topic</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:09:46 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>mcfaddeninsurance says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can't argue with that idea. We need to have some form of leadership to take us forward. Youth and college rugby are growing and improving. With some good leadership that growth can drive us forward as a rugby playing nation.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mcfaddeninsurance</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 18:08:34 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>California Dreaming says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@mcfadden You want MORE USAR government? Amazing. USAR is organized to serve the IRB and the IRB is organized to serve International Rugby. It's crazy that it's funded on the backs of college teams. The NCAA is organized and totally governed by the colleges themselves. USAR is governed by a board that cares little for the college game, except as it serves as a feeder for Eagles. If you want more governance by fiat by an absentee board composed of folks who are uninvolved in college athletics, you go ahead and ask for more specific rules coming down from Mt. Olympus. OR, you could get off your asses and govern yourselves. You're almost there with emerging autonomous conferences. The only thing left is to get a divorce from USAR and form your own NCAA-like body to run the college game. Then your opinions and needs will mean something other than as background noise to an Eagle-biased administration.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>California Dreaming</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 16:15:29 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>clarencepicard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["All About the Money" gets it. Read the article on Texas A&M leaving. Their kids were paying $2000 in dues to play D1A. It has little to do with competition, and almost everything to do with spending the money. It's insane for clubs financed by students, coaches and alumni to try and compete with varsity programs. It's not because we are scared or don't practice enough. We've gone to Penn St and Kutztown for our beatings, we are willing to play. Someone on another article told me we should hold a golf tournament to cover the costs. OK, so where do I come up with the other $150,000 it takes to play at that level? I'm not saying kill D1A, varsity and pseudo-varsity programs deserve a place to challenge each other. I hope my team is there some day. But even SD State, in prime rugby territory with an Eagle for a coach and great facilities got smacked by Davenport.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>clarencepicard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 10:28:11 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>mcfaddeninsurance says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pat, thanks for bringing up another problem with college rugby and that is the idea of teams picking the level of competition they want. USA Rugby needs to lead this thing. There has to be standards established. The possibility that a team such as Cal can arbitrarily withdraw from Division 1-A, where they are likely to at least make the playoffs every year, and insert themselves into Division 1-AA or Division II is counterproducti ve to the game. We need a promotion and relegation process to help improve parity and ensure the integrity of each level of competition.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mcfaddeninsurance</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:55:57 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Realist says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SDSU coward away to D1-AA because they don't want to have anything to do with Cal, St Mary's, BYU, Utah or any of the other top D1-A teams. That's the problem with D1-A, there are too many teams that are willing to drop down a division. Bunch of cowards.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 05:17:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Your Mom says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: Baseball, hockey and LaCrosse are NCAA sports where the teams winning championships are not brand name schools, yet these sports are making Sports Center highlights. You can't fear or under estimate the appeal the small school in a National competition. Often people will route for the underdog when their school is not involved. A PLAN: There is nothing that says teams can't compete in multiple competitions. Run the Pac-12 inside another league. OSU, UO, UW, WSU play each other in already play one another in the NCRC. Take their heads up record and use that to seed them in a weekend knock out for the "Pac-12 Cup." The winner of which gets an automatic bid to the National Cup.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Your Mom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:35:47 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Working Class Rugger says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The move toward PAC 12 and Big 10 conferences are purely for the purpose of creating commercially attractive leagues based on traditional rivalries in an attempt to leverage greater levels of income and exposure. The same reason the ACRL was established. If they are able to do so and garner an audience that 1) provide legitimacy and 2)provide the programs involved with the necessary finances and resourcing to develop their programs which in time will deliver greater levels of parity.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Working Class Rugger</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:31:06 --500</pubDate>
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