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		<title>Cliff's Notes: College 7s Needs to be Accessible</title>
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			<title>John McNamara says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pat, Now that you're done writing about the seasonality issue how about taking on the larger issue: What the hell is USAR doing about college rugby? No Director of College Rugby in place for the entire spring season, no AA coaching assignment, no mention of USAR even fielding an AA squad this year. If Sevens is the future what is USAR doing about it? College rugby is USAR's best hope on so many fronts: marketing, fan base, institutional support, existing infrastructure, player development... the list could go on and on. Yet this sector of the game gets no leadership. Finding an appropriate person for the Director role is the easy part. Giving the person in this position the resources and authority to lead the college game forward is what USAR seems incapable of doing. It is as if USAR sees the college game as a threat instead of partner. It's insane. How about a little investigative journalism for a change?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John McNamara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:14:33 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>craig says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RMU, it's okay if that is what the NE wants to do, all I'm saying is you can also choose to split the season, and play 4/5 weeks of league competition into the spring for 15s/Union rather than tournaments as a precursor to post season. It's all a choice and there is only so many Saturdays in a given academic calendar. The post season is streamlined its more local and it's later into spring- fall 7s can be extension of summer, it provides greater continuity and athlete development and I believe is unique enough to find a little time on tv during Football season.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:48:38 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>patrickeclifton says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last year a team competing in multiple qualifiers, like Florida State in the SIRC and the ACI, had to pick which tournament it would try to qualify through before playing in one. Florida State chose the ACI, so even if they had won the SIRC, they would not have earned the AQ bid for doing so. But you are right on the other counts. The seasonality issue is what it is, and there's no way to please everyone. So I'm done arguing or writing about it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>patrickeclifton</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:11:07 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>RMU says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Craig- Coaches up North play their main season in the fall because that’s when they get the best weather, which gives them the most amount of weeks to play in You can get an 11 week season in before Thanksgiving. If you have 10 teams, split your conference in half & play 2 cross conference games. If you have a conference playoff with top 4 teams that's 2 extra weeks. Even with Sweet 16 after that, that's a total of 12 weeks to decide a National Championship. Everything could & should be done in 1 fall season. You could potentially play the Championship down south after Thanksgiving. Big marketable schools like PSU, ND, Cal, Texas, Arizona, etc, have them play a spring 15's season like they're doing & fall sevens. I think if its marketable & can get on TV, then thats what you do. But for the other 95% of us, let us play during the time of year it makes sense for us. We just need a little guidance from Bolder to push 7's on small colleges]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RMU</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>craig says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The championships for Rugby Union has been played in the spring, to fully maximize Rugby 7s, the best window for athlete development is June-December window. Both high quality rugby for 7s tournaments and Rugby Union matches should have the ability for tv exposure, 7s does have an opportunity for tv during "Football" season, and Union would really struggle to get exposure unless played in the spring, since the championships already play in the spring, let's build on this and fully develop 7s in the fall and use summer for s+c and development. If schools in the Northeast or Midwest would rather choose to play "crappy little tournaments" rather than pushing league matches into spring then that is their choice. Playoffs for Union are geography based to reduce travel and 7s is taking off and since again, the bulk of 7s is played in the summer, schools should just consider playing into the fall a little.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:06:06 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Wigan Rugby says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How about naming a location, would be nice to know who is going to host it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Wigan Rugby</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:44:33 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>NotSoFast says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This doesn't make a ton of sense to me... In 15s you have to be part of an official conf, which is how you qualify for Nat'ls. But in 7s, a group of teams can join together like the Pac12 schools & create a tourney that gets an AQ even though they're not in a conf. Then you have other legit confs who have to plan their fall 15s season around a Nat'l 7s tourney b/c the powers that be determined the fall is 7s season. So if I understand this correctly, a team like Indiana can qualify thru the Big10 or MidEast tourneys, a team like Army has no way to qualify, and a team like Albany has to cut their season short to play in a conf tourney, & then travel on no notice? What happens w/ At Large seeds? No doubt some tourneys will be held on Nov10. Will the at large seeds be determined before the AQ tourneys like they were in 15s this yr (see: Clemson)? Or will teams find out on the Sun before the tourney that they've been given an at large?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NotSoFast</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:34:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>RMU says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You should do another article... "College 7's Needs an Actual Season; Fall or Spring" Small D2 and D3 colleges up North play 15's in the fall and coaches up that way have no desire to switch to the spring and play 7's in the fall. I know because I presented the idea to our union. As much of a 15's fan as I am, I know the way forward is 7's, if you want more support from the school. What we (small schools) need is direction and help with getting seasons put together for 7's. Small schools play nothing but crappy little tournaments in the spring. I dont see why we cant push and try and turn these into spring 7's tournaments.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RMU</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:14:06 --500</pubDate>
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