GRR: College Men
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) has released an update on where it stands with regard to the COVID-19 outbreak, lockdowns, and thoughts of return-to-play:
The Liberty Conference’s flirtation with its own, standalone collegiate organization wasn’t for nothing, despite the fact that the idea has changed into the group joining NCR.
The COVID-19 lockdown has plenty of rugby players finding other ways to compete, and perhaps it’d be a surprise to learn what George O’Brien is doing.
The scampery scrumhalf from the Raleigh Redhawks, whose speed and elusiveness characterizes a very high-energy game, likes … fishing.
We're trying to figure out where everyone will play.
As this writer said in a Facebook Live Q&A this week, for many college players, what their umbrella organization turns out to be won't change too much. Small college teams will go on as before. Men's D2 college teams will, with one or two exceptions, go on as before.
After a bit of a wait, the Liberty Conference has announced that it will join NCR.
The Liberty teams had discussed forming a group called USCRO, but after some time the leadership group realized that creating your own organization when another already exists was not sustainable. So USCRO was put aside as a stand-alone group, and NCR was embraced.