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		<title>Caravelli Wants to Hold Open Combines</title>
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			<title>Socalrugby says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow. Rugby people are very protective of their own kind. As someone else stated... there is an OPEN tryout where some hope more of the out-of-work NFL castoffs may come out to. I don't see anyone saying let's put 7 nfl players on the pitch and expect them to beat any of the top 5 in the world. You are foolish to think that if you taught them the game and gave them time to practice that they wouldn't succeed though. Ruggers like to think the game is so unique, so complicated and difficult to learn that teaching outstanding athletes the game would be a waste of time. If I had a dollar every time a kiwi told me that an american can't be good at this sport, I'd be rich and build a team of americans to shut them up. Football players don't play rugby because of money... not because they can't or that they wouldn't be good. BTW - Zach Test played Oregon football didn't he?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Socalrugby</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 01:00:43 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>cthulhupun says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I see a lot of argument about the football guys. I think many commenting have missed the point. There will be open tryouts, not tryouts for football guys. This means that those great guys who play for a DIII team because of the geography of their employment have a chance to make it to the Eagles. The way we have been doing it leaves many of the best players out because they don't live in an area where their is a top-tier team. I've played with international players on DIII sides before, so I know they're out there. This open tryouts idea gives them a chance.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cthulhupun</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:59:28 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>BGM92 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No way could you get a guy who was training for the NFL who has never played rugby ready to play Elite rugby in one year. It would be a great experiment, but the team of NFL guys would get smoked. I agree that having better atheletes would raise the level of our game in 7s. Watching the whole Adelaide tournament I noticed how especially against Fiji we were completely outclassed physically, but guys like Craigwell who athletically is more than fast enough is still looked far too slow on the field in the game. The ability to play the game with speed and strength comes from experience. If the argument was in 4 or 5 years we could have a great team I would agree, but not in one. If Caravelli is wanting to hold these combines; put the players with well established clubs and invite them to a developmental camp a few times a year and see what happens. If he is thinking of putting them into the Eagles squad I think it will work out even more poorly than this season has gone.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BGM92</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:29:17 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>HMRFC says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Amen to that, Lock! Plus Ngata was an amazing rugger in High School to boot, along with Stewart Bradley of the Eagles and Fui Vakapuna (think he is with the Bengals now but not sure). Yes, Ebner is exactly the kind of guy that I am talking about, good example!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>HMRFC</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:37:47 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>LockFive says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HMRFC - Nate Ebner from Ohio State is a good example of U19 All-American's playing college football and someone to watch after football is over. He makes major contributions on special teams for the Buckeyes in the fall, but will he make it to the NFL on that experience alone... that will be tough. Its nice to see that Tressel is letting him play 7's this June. And to what you said on the Eagles vs NFL (context)... In my opinion, just like in football, in rugby defense wins championships. So while I dont know if the 15 best football players could beat the eagles after a year, I do know one thing for sure. They sure as [censored, don't use this word] wouldn't lose a game to them by much, as I dont think the eagles would score many trys on them if it was 15 defensive NFL players. I seriously doubt our best ruggers (right now) could get past NFL players like Ed Reed, Polamalu, Ray Lewis, Matthews Jr, Revis, Nagata etc..]]></description>
			<dc:creator>LockFive</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:31:05 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>davehalo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[a standard season may mean the south and pac southwest play their games in the summer (i.e. the season starts for the entire country at the end of March - preseason could be Feb/March). League play then runs April through July (12-16 game season) with playoffs running in August/September. 7's then becomes a fall vs summer sport which might tie it better into the IRB series and selections. PLUS...college players could end their season and play up with men's clubs in the summer if they chose to do so...just a thought]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davehalo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:33:33 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>davehalo says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/usa-sevens-men/507-caravelli-wants-to-hold-open-combines.html#comment-144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[HMRFC - "...it would be a tremendous benefit to higher level rugby if they did not have to choose one over the other simply because one cannot pay for their school." problem is title ix and how it's implemented. most schools cut men's sports so the scholarship levels are equal for men and women...football is the main problem for men's sports: to many scholarships and to many players req'd to field a team. now women's rugby probably has a greater chance of achieving top collegiate status. if you have two sides totaling 30+ female athletes..title ix problems solved. what we need more of is schools like arizona allowing their football players to play spring rugby...which brings up another major problem in the US: the variety of highschool, college and men's "seasons" and 15's vs 7's seasons, etc is ridiculous. usa rugby could create a standard season and "dictate" that refs will only be provided then...this would force teams/unions to comply (cont)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davehalo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:29:25 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>davehalo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[now as to the nfl-rugby conversion...one thing to always bear in mind is that there are always exceptions to the rule. think of it as a correlation with rugby skill on the y axis and football skill on the x axis. lyle, hodges, etc translated athletic talent 1st exhibited on the football field into some of the best rugby the US has ever seen...albeit as individual players, the team was never that good. along comes Al and his football to 7's converts...he will need to sift a lot of uncut gems to find those diamonds. is that really the path to go? maybe these tryouts will work. the chance that an 'nfl' cast-off fits better in rugby than they did in football may have merit else why didnt they make it in the nfl...ie. their skillset may be better for rugby. i gotta laugh when someone thinks AP would make a good rugby player. sure he'd demolish guys in the tackle, run around them, etc but does he know how to pass? when to pass? to set someone up? to dummy with the ball? it'd b fun 2 watch]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davehalo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:22:33 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>davehalo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HMRFC - i agree with you on the point that the model in this country is broke. i take issue with the fact that we've never stuck with one model to see if it can bear fruit. Add to it that the world rugby community went professional...since then we have tried several different models: Pacific rim, ITT's, Super League, Major League Rugby, NA4, etc...some would say RSL has been going a while but top teams dropping out because of finances, player issues, etc does not make a top league, which needs sound financial backing and administration...something i would say usa rugby has never been top heavy in. funds come in and big salaries are paid out. go back 20 years and ask "why didn't we...." so the better question now is "why aren't we learning from our mistakes?"]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davehalo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:12:52 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>HMRFC says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Correction on my earlier comment: by excellent HS/U-19 players I meant those that are excellent HS/U-19 Rugby Players who may decide to pursue football after high school, and are thereby not guys who have to be taught the game from scratch if they come back to it. Not sure if it cam across that way or not.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>HMRFC</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:44:18 --500</pubDate>
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