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Goff Rugby Report opens up the 2014-2015 Men's college season with our pre-season DI Men's College ranking.
In this ranking, which we will look to post every week, we may well expand the list, which currently numbers 30, depending on how teams perform.
Ideally, we'd like to rank as many as 100 teams, but for the pre-season, we'll start with 30.
Rugby World Cup LTD. and the IRB announced the team training bases for the 2015 Men's Rugby World Cup.
The USA, which qualified in March, will be based in Haileybury School in Hertfordshire, in the early part of the tournament.
Two more weeks of practices, and the fall season will be underway. So here's a pre-season look at the Women's DI College Top 20, our first ranking of the year:
Video of the August 24 clash between Wheeling Jesuit, in yellow, and Notre Dame College, in blue.
There have been a ton of articles about the quality of play at the Jr Olympics and a ton of fingers being pointed and a ton of reasons offered but I would submit the biggest reason for our failure is the program as a whole, both for 7s and for 15s. What is the root cause, lack of meaningful competition for the HS age and a complete lack of HS age HPD programs.