GRR: College Men
Penn State men’s rugby has hired Zac Mizell as its head coach.
Mizell comes to Penn State after serving as the men’s rugby head coach at Adrian College in 2023-24, where he was the Midwest Rugby Conference Coach of the Year. He also currently serves as head coach of the men’s elite team at the Ohio Aviators Rugby Academy.
Goff Rugby Report is previewing the Major League Rugby Draft by looking the positions and also checking in on some of the issues that drive the draft decisions—home-grown players, moving, and non-MLR playing opportunities.
The Major League Rugby draft will be here soon.
We at Goff Rugby Report World Headquarters will be running a series of draft preview shows, and here's our first one.
Do you want to be picked in the draft or become an undrafted free agent? Well, it depends.
What roll do non-MLR clubs play in helping these players? Perhaps a lot.
World Rugby has confirmed a change to Regulation 8 which will have a marked effect on the game in the USA.
Regulation 8 deals with how players are eligible to play for a national team. Among the issues it addresses are these:
In our latest RuggaMatrix America podcast episode we talk to Joe Rasmus about his experience coaching at the University of Illinois.
Before the COVID shutdowns, Rasmus had devised an intriguing approach to building the Illinois rugby program—creating two levels of competition, with one level playing an intramural league on campus.