We were fortunate to catch the Men’s Small Colleges playoff game this weekend, as Babson got by a serious challenge from Endicott College to make it to the next round in Houston.

Entering the final quarter, Babson was ahead by three scores and it looked like the end of the road for Endicott. However the strong running Gulls asked serious questions of the Babson defense and managed to tie up the game at 45 points each.

Babson had the last word, aided by a series of penalties and a one player advantage, marched down the field and notched the try to put Babson into the next round.  That round will be in Houston, against Catholic University in the NCR Small Colleges semi-final on Dec 8.

Likely Babson will benefit from the challenge, as it has cruised through much of the season without many seriously tough games.

All is not lost for Endicott, as the women’s team will fly the flag Dec 2^nd against St. Bonaventure.

Coast Guard will represent the region in the NCR Small Colleges Women’s Division 2. On the men’s side, along with Babson in the Small Colleges, Vermont will complete in Houston in the Division 2 playoffs, while Boston College will take on Kentucky in the D1-AA competition and Brown University will lead the charge in the premier Division 1 tournament.

The starting line up for the Men’s Collegiate All-Americans game against Cambridge University has been named.  The game on June 21st will be at Dartmouth College at 1pm, and the two teams will face off again at the Irish Cultural Center in Canton Mass on Wednesday June 25th at 6pm. The final game of the MCAA’s will be against the Ontario Blues, also at the Irish Cultural Center on June 28th at 2.30pm.

Madison Hughes, who plays his rugby at Dartmouth College captains the side from the left wing position. Another New England based player, Christian Adams of American International College did not make the team for the game on the 21st, but he gets an opportunity to make an impression later that day as the MCAA’s put out a second team against a selection from Ontario. Full details can be found at usarugby.org.
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The Varsity Cup released its schedule for the 2014, and local entrant Dartmouth College has a tough journey ahead in the expanded United World Sports run competition. New entrants Clemson, Texas, Oklahoma and Utah challenge Dartmouth, Notre Dame, UCLA and Air Force respectively on April 12th.

If Dartmouth prevails against the higher ranked Clemson, a date with title holders BYU awaits a week later, on April 19th at Navy’s facility in the quarter-finals. Should Dartmouth get past both  Clemson and BYU, a home semifinal would be a possibility, depending on the seeding.  More on this later.

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Dartmouth College’s Madison Hughes has been tearing it up in New England for the last couple of years, and it comes as little surprise he is being recognized nationally for his achievements.  Last month he was named to the Olympic Residency squad of twenty five players for 2014, the only men’s player from New England on the squad.

His first outing with the squad was to the recent USA Sevens Las Vegas tournament.  There Hughes competed not on the main USA team but on what was essentially the second side, called the Falcons.

The Falcons squad fell to a star-studded Serevi Selects in the final, but Hughes’ efforts  were rewarded with his first call up to the USA squad for the next round of Seven’s competition, the Wellington Seven’s in Wellington, New Zealand, scheduled for Feb 7^th and 8^th.

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Hughes is enjoying the latest developments in his career.  Those who had to face Hughes over the last couple of years in New England may not be able to breathe easy, however, as Hughes fully expects to be back to play with Dartmouth this spring. He has been able to take classes in the summers, and coupled with Dartmouth’s semester schedule, Hughes expects to graduate in summer 2015, losing no time despite all his additional rugby undertakings.   And it will not be just in sevens, he expects to fully compete in traditional fifteens also with Dartmouth.

What does the future hold for Hughes?  Is he looking at Rio 2016? “The Olympic Games are the pinnacle of sport, and it would be an incredible privilege to be able to go. However the competition is immense, both individually and as a team.  The qualification process is difficult, and we’ve got to improve in order to get there. Within the team there are lots of really good players, and so there’s going to be lots of competition for spots.  It’s certainly something that I think about though, and am going to be working very hard in order to increase the chances of it being a possibility”.

Colby rugby’s $2.5 Million problem

We have been following the surprising announcement by Colby College to cease funding the Men’s and Women’s rugby teams following the Spring 2014 season. (See notice that was reposted onto the Colby Facebook page below.

https://www.facebook.com/colbycollege/posts/10153536827020245

According to Colby, the decision was made “against a backdrop of increased concern over college costs and a growing awareness of the health and safety risks of a high collision/contact sport…”. Reaction has been swift, including an online petition that has already received more than 3,000 signatures.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-colby-rugby

Certainly the reference to player safety being a priority is admirable. Many, many thoughtful comments have been posted on Facebook and elsewhere, among the more notables I saw were ones by Sam Kaplan and Jack Clark. Clark’s in particular was interesting, as he cautioned against falling into an “us v them” mentality. Since Clark has recent experience with school administrators cutting funding, his thoughts are valuable.

The eye-popping number with the announcement was that Colby stated the cost of running the men’s and women’s teams would run about $115,000, which surely made everyone associated with any rugby club in the country wonder what would be included in that number. Other than conference fees (maybe $1000), USA Rugby fees (maybe $1000), coaches (a reported $10,000), busses to away games (maybe 5,000), referee’s fees (maybe $1000); if the team doesn’t have to rent practice and game fields, the majority of the other costs are minimal or borne by the players individually.

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Without a breakdown of the $65,000, it is somewhat of a guessing game to wonder how that number was arrived at. Let’s look at the costs for a certified athletic trainer. How many hours a week would a trainer be needed? Six hours practice per week, plus another three for home games. Throw in some office hours, but still likely a max of ten hours per week. Even if both teams played all home games, and had no economies of scale from sharing the same practice field, probably no more than twenty hours per week. With the teams playing ten weeks in the Fall and ten in the Spring, that’s 400 hours max. Even at an hourly rate of $100, that’s still only $40,000. If the trainer traveled, of course, that might change the numbers somewhat, or if there was a minimum number of hours required to get coverage, and if they required an ambulance to be available that might drastically change everything.

So maybe the school wanted to hire a full time person rather than paying an hourly rate to the local provider. OK, fine. If the school hired a full time person at say, $50K, could not those costs be spread out among other varsity sports / club sports/ general safety? Why hit the rugby clubs a full time charge for part time coverage? It does not seem to make sense.

That leaves coaching salary, perhaps a budget of $50K to cover both teams. Of the 200+ coaches in New England, very few coaches are paid much more than a stipend. This would make such a salary very attractive. But would you leave your job, perhaps relocate your family for such a salary for a job like this? No recruitment budget probably, and a recent track record from Colby demonstrating somewhat less than stellar college support for the game?

More back of the envelope calculations suggest the rugby players contribute some $2M to the College each year, one could conclude some portion of that would be allocated towards funding of school total budget for club rugby was activities such as club sports?  Or are we getting into an “us v them” mentality again?

The clubs have apparently been told that if they come up with a fund of $2.5 million the clubs will be funded. Approximately a 5% return or drawdown on that number would be required annually.

Very little seems to add up here, perhaps we are missing something?

From the USA Rugby website….

BOULDER, Colo. — USA Rugby confirmed today that Todd Bell has stepped down from his role as Collegiate Director for the Union, effective immediately. USA Rugby will seek to fill the vacant position as soon as possible.

The incoming director will be charged with continuing to develop and refine the college conference structure, drive USA Rugby’s NCAA Women’s Emerging Sports Initiative, and improve college rugby on all levels generally.

The college game is undergoing a thorough restructuring in order to continue to improve the level of play at the collegiate level.
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Developments over the last two years include the transition to a conference structure, the launch of the first-ever elite conference based Men’s Division I college rugby competition, and the inaugural USA Rugby College Sevens National Championships.

USA Rugby CEO, Nigel Melville said, “We would like to thank Todd for his efforts in moving the collegiate game forward. We wish him the best of luck in any future endeavors.”

The job description and application for USA Rugby Collegiate Director will be posted here in the coming days.