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		<title>NYAC's McLane Stands Up for RSL</title>
		<description>Discuss NYAC's McLane Stands Up for RSL</description>
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			<title>mclane1 says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15934</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Concerned I didn't back down and clearly mentioned the 2 screw ups by RSL in expansion. They didn't deny any others deserving]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mclane1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:55:28 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Concerned Rugby Fan says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15894</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bruce stated "I can say, with 100-percent certainty, that our member clubs welcome those who wish to join and raise the bar" Easy to say now that you are in a hole with maybe a 8 Club league spread over 6 million square miles. That has not been the case in the past. The majority of the Member Clubs were opposed to expansion and were behind USA Rugby's goal of an eight or ten team elite Club competition.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Concerned Rugby Fan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:10:01 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>mcfaddeninsurance says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15873</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some of us are writing as if American rugby is at its penicle already and nothing will change in the club environment in the near future. I disagree. Youth and college rugby are improving at an amazing rate. There are tens of thousands of young players who could be joining clubs before the next Olympics. The growth is still accelerating too. The top athletes graduating on to club teams will want an elite club to play for. Our economy has been in the crapper for 6 or 7 years. Of course some teams have had to withdraw from the RSL do to expenses and sponsors have been hard to find. It won't be long until we start to feel a recovery. The RSL is the right idea and, with some effort, it can stand through this economy. We need the RSL because it offers a challenge to players who are looking for the best rugby America has.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mcfaddeninsurance</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:02:43 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>rugbyfan1 says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15871</link>
			<description><![CDATA[it was a petty grievence filed by a super league rival - just a reminder... http://www.erugbynews.com/goffonrugby/archive/member/2004/rslplayoffsincourt060404.htm]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rugbyfan1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:29:20 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>rugbyfan1 says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15870</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Aspen then lawyered up locally, saying it wasn't fair. It became clear how difficult it was to audit & enforce the RP rule, so it was simply thrown out for the following competitive cycle. So in sum, Aspen then won the battle to play in the RSL semis, but lost the war. close - the rival team filed the omplaint which stated...one (or two?) of the aspen players forfeited thier resident status becuase they returned to thier home country and played club level games. a ruling was made in against aspen based on the complaint - ...then they filed an injunction, etc.. aspens money man had enough - stepped down and that was it..many other clubs have see that happen as well.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rugbyfan1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:23:14 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>ISP8 says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15864</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rugbyfan1, how soon we forget... Aspen got dinged because the player/club/mgmt made either an incorrect or false representation on a Resident Player Application. Recall that on the RP app, each person is signing it and repping the player has complied. By having that RP re-classed as "Foreign", Aspen thus played with too many in each game. Aspen then lawyered up locally, saying it wasn't fair. It became clear how difficult it was to audit & enforce the RP rule, so it was simply thrown out for the following competitive cycle. So in sum, Aspen then won the battle to play in the RSL semis, but lost the war.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ISP8</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:01:48 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>CKM says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15850</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Having played both, there is no doubt the SL provides a higher level of rugby. The problem is that it doesn't provide enough of them at a reasonable cost, nor does it do so locally. That is never going to change, and the good clubs that have left realized this. They haven't left because D1 provides better games, they have left because D1 provides good enough games, more of them, locally and at at a lower cost. Such choices may not be ideal for developing players for the national team, but let's not forget that clubs do not, and probably should not, exist for that purpose.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>CKM</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:52:55 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>pops says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15846</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Tim, I agree with you 1000%. SL is a product very few know about. Every SL team must have someone in charge of marketting that can be a college kid doing internship who majors in business, marketting or sports marketting whose responsibiltiy is to do stories on team and players, interact with local media to place those articles or stories , and attempt to build the fan base. With that, sponsors may see ROI and invest. If SL wants/needs business people to invest, that run the league like a business.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pops</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:37:37 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tim Exton says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15842</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If you ask me the crux of the matter in all of this is organization, funding and media ... of which sponsorship is the most important player! There are sponsors out there that will invest in the development of the game but it requires a professional approach to get them to open their wallets ... and they need to be shown that they will receive a good marketing return on their investment. All RSL clubs will have to buy in to a common marketing and sponsorship strategy ... websites need improving, relations with local media can be better, video streaming must be much better than last year ... none of what's needed is rocket science.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tim Exton</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:39:31 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>rja1 says:</title>
			<link>http://rugbymag.com/op-eds/5307-nyacs-mclane-stands-up-for-rsl.html#comment-15841</link>
			<description><![CDATA["rja1: I believe that he's saying that our athletes are as good as their athletes but they defeat us because we lack the game experience that they have." You're not going to get that game experience in a 8-team league that plays only 3 months a year. That game was a disgrace, a slap in the face to the English RFU that financed that tournament for years, and that game pretty much showed every flaw in the American domestic game at its very top levels that's been talked about forever. If what is being discussed of an 8-conference, 8-team DI league takes form, here would be your Northeast DI for instance: NYAC, Old Blue, Boston (RSL teams) Boston Irish (ex-RSL team) Mystic River New York RC (per a friend Old Blue no longer in the RSL would make this team better because Old Blue takes their top players) the bottom would be 2 of Monmouth, South Shore, Long Island,etc...that's a decent league with a reduction in the travel bill]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rja1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:52:32 --500</pubDate>
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