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		<title>Krewe Wins South DII</title>
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			<title>bandit says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/men's-dii-clubs/706-krewe-wins-south-dii.html#comment-1770</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The South's problem is it's size and location of the clubs, which is similar to the West and portions of the Midwest. Out west, the South has NOLA and BR, the FL teams at the bottom, Charleston in the east and in the middle, G'ville and ATL. I don't care how you cut the mustard, but that's a huge distance to be covered. Although not perfect, if you combine double dip weekends, bus trips and matches at a neutral site can make a large, distant territory work. You don't always have to fly everywhere and not every match has to kick off at noon or 1pm. But as someone who is in the South, it is time for the clubs in the South and the South admin to make a D1 league.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bandit</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:21:51 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Jeffe says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/men's-dii-clubs/706-krewe-wins-south-dii.html#comment-1347</link>
			<description><![CDATA[South Playoffs, the purpose of the crossover matches between the two brackets (for both the challenge and semifinal matches) in my proposal is to address your concern, that if the teams in one or the other bracket are stronger they would advance over weaker teams (the South did this when they had 4+ D-1 teams in two brackets, northern and southern, with the 3rd and 4th place teams allowed to travel to challenge the 1st and 2nd teams in the other bracket).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jeffe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:35:30 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Jeffe says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Punisher, all well and good, but it will all come down to whether the South is willing and able to enforce its promotion and relegation decisions, after not doing so this year (especiallu since prior South bylaws also gave them ample authority to determined in which division teams would compete). The South rule change just says there will be enough teams promoted to make up a South D-1 league with a minimum of 6 teams; it says nothing about the format of that competition, which is why I was tossing out that suggestion.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jeffe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:34:54 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Punisher says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/men's-dii-clubs/706-krewe-wins-south-dii.html#comment-1326</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For those postulating about what the DI Competition next year, first please read what USA Rugby South has already decided: http://www.usarugbysouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/USARS-Minutes-March-21-2011.pdf]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Punisher</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 08:57:19 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>South Playoffs... says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[D1 should be set up like the Mid-Atlantic Division 1. Mandatory 8-10 D1 teams and you play everybody 1 time and there's a point system. Why should you have to play a team twice in a season and never play other teams in the South or your same division? Who won the south-south D2 this year? NO or AOW? guess we will never know because they never played each other and both lost to Krewe. Why does the D-1 teams pretty much get an automatic Sweet 16 bid because no one plays them? A little travel is fun. Step it up South!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>South Playoffs...</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 08:19:42 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>benito1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jeffe does have a good plan. And again this has less to do with Tampa Krewe or New Orleans. And more to do with the complete lack of Division One teams in the South.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>benito1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:26:26 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Jeffe says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/men's-dii-clubs/706-krewe-wins-south-dii.html#comment-1202</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Willing Rugger, Charleston and Greenville were in the same D-2 matrix first and Greenville finished first in that pool among common opponents, and also beat Charleston head-to-head (12-5 on 2/5/11, in Greenville), Greenville also advanced to D-2 semifinals instead of Charleston so I think you'd have to promote Greenville rather than Charleston. I'd also set up a promotion/relegation system, where the two 3rd place teams from each D-1 bracket would drop down and be replaced by the best D-2 teams from their respective geographic areas (align it with the D-2 pools, so the best D-2 team from the D-2 north and east pools moves up into the northern D-1 bracket, and the best D-2 team from the South and Florida pools moves up into the southern D-1 bracket). For this to happen would require South admin to have some common sense and the balls to enforce the change, and the South has demonstrated neither in recent years.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jeffe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:42:19 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>The Willing Rugger says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jeffe thats the best plan I have heard yet. The only thing I would change is Charleston chould be there instead of Greenville. Personally playing in games against Charleston, AOW, and NOLA. They have the best talent and structure of any teams in the South in D2. Before Krewe won the National Title in D2 AOW, Nashville, Tridents, Miami RFC, Ft. Lauderdale, and Naples all were D1 for a number of years. Why did they decide to move to D2 this year? Cause Krewe won a National Title in D2 and all of those so called D1 teams thought they could win a national title in D2. How did that work out for them? How many of those teams are left in the playoffs? Zero]]></description>
			<dc:creator>The Willing Rugger</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 08:57:19 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Jeffe says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If the South had any sense, it would promote the four D-2 semifinalist teams to D-1, and set up two brackets of three teams each: Renegades, old white and Greenville in a northern bracket, and New Orleans, Krewe and Boca Raton in a southern bracket. Each team plays the other two teams in its bracket home and away (which gives you four games), then give the third place team in each bracket the option to travel to challenge the second place team in the opposite bracket (and take their spot in a South championships semifinal if they win); then have a South championship with the first place team in each bracket playing the second place team in the opposite bracket (or third place team from their own bracket if that team challenged and won) in a semifinal, winners to a final and losers to a third place game to determine the four seeds to the CR3 crossovers with the Midwest (which ensures two more games, to make up the six competitive games needed under USA Rugby competitions guidelines).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jeffe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 22:00:21 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>KreweFan says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["benito1"]True but when Old White dropped down, Tampa only need to make one trip to Atlanta, instead of two. This is wrong. You cannot qualify for the playoffs with only 2 matrix games. So Krewe would have had to travel multiple times to both team to have the required amount of games on the schedule.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>KreweFan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:36:23 --500</pubDate>
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