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In the spring of 2015 the DIAA national playoffs included just eight teams and five conference champions - the 2016 may well look very different.
Here’s why: More conferences will want to be involved this season, and that will make the number of conferences involved more than eight. In addition, there will be DIAA independent teams, namely Notre Dame College and, possibly, Delaware.
If you’ve got a rugby player in your household and you’re thinking about a holiday gift, you could do a lot worse than Rugby Revealed.
Whoever the new USA Men’s 15s Coach is in 2016, he will have some extra work to do.
Jonah Lomu died today, November 17, a huge loss to the world rugby community. I thought I would just give you some thoughts about this player.
If you are young, you might not know who he was, perhaps you think he was just another one of those old guys. But Lomu, while the dominant wing in the game from 1994-1999, was much more than that.
Among the things we asked USA 15s Head Coach Mike Tolkin in our recent interview with him was whether he wanted to stay on as coach.
Tolkin said he definitely did, but knew that decision was in the hands of the Board. There’s still work to do, said Tolkin, and added that the team itself is going to undergo plenty of change.