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2006 Ohio State Rugby

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Steve19 said:
Actually, not true Wes! Kicking the living daylights out of Penn State and winning the national championship would be far more satisfying. So would a night with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders but then, that was another era! :slappy:
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haha...I'm with you there. And the Cowboys cheerleaders stand the test of time, whatever generation you are talking about.
 
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We are now at #6 in the Goff poll...


  1. California (1)
    Current Record 11-0
    Last Week 40-7 over St. Mary's (9)
    This Week NYAC
  2. BYU (2)
    Current Record 9-1
    Last Week 64-21 over Air Force, 68-5 over Colorado (11)
    This Week Utah (3)
  3. Utah (3)
    Current Record 11-2
    Last Week Red & White Game
    This Week BYU (2)
  4. Penn State (4)
    Current Record 9-3
    Last Week idle
    This Week Salisbury State
  5. Army (5)
    Current Record 11-0
    Last Week idle
    This Week Camp with Boston Irish Wolfhounds
  6. Ohio State (7)
    Current Record 11-1
    Last Weekidle
    This Week Savannah, March 18
  7. Navy (6)
    Current Record 6-4
    Last Week PAC
    This Week Delaware
  8. Cal Poly (13)Current Record 11-1
    Last Week 34-17 over UC Santa Barbara (8)
    This Week UC San Diego
  9. St. Mary's (9)
    Current Record 8-2-1
    Last Week Lost 40-7 to Cal (1)
    This Week UC Davis (16)
  10. UC Santa Barbara (8)
    Current Record 8-2
    Last Week Lost 34-17 to Cal Poly (13)
    This Week UCLA
  11. Tennessee (10)
    Current Record 14-0
    Last Week 30-7 over North Carolina
    This Week Georgia
  12. Washington State (12)
    Current Record: 13-1
    Last Week Forfeit over Oregon
    This Week Washington
  13. Wyoming (14)
    Current Record 6-3
    Last Week 50-25 over Northern Colorado
    This Week Rugby Roundup
  14. Colorado (11)
    Current Record: 6-3
    Last Week lost 68-5 to BYU (2)
    This Week Denver Barbarians
  15. Dartmouth (15)
    Current Record: 9-4
    Last Week idle
    This Week March tour to Argentina
  16. UC Davis (16)
    Current Record 10-2
    Last Week idle
    This Week St. Mary's (9)
  17. Purdue (17)
    Current Record 3-4
    Last Week idle
    This Week idle
  18. Bowling Green (18)
    Current Record: 6-2
    Last Week idle
    This Week idle
  19. Texas A&M (19)
    Current Record 3-0
    Last Week Rained Out v. Sam Houston
    This Week Sam Houston
  20. University of Buffalo (20)
    Current Record 9-1-1
    Last Week idle
    This Week idle
Honorable mention: Air Force, Arizona, Clemson, Chico State, Colorado State, Cornell, Delaware, Indiana, Kutztown, Long Beach State, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Northeastern, North Carolina, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Sacramento State, Texas A&M
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New Travelcorp rankings...Cal moves into the #1 spot after beating NYAC, one of the top men's clubs in the nation. We remain at #6 as we prepare for the Savannah Tournament and a game against Life College later this month.

College rankings: Change at the very top

By Brian Lowe

San Francisco, CA – (March 7, 2006) – Well, what can we say. After Cal’s stunning defeat of the New York Athletic Club, there can be little argument that the reigning collegiate champions are deserving of taking over the number one spot on the TravelCorp College Top 25.

Despite Army having settled the debate over whether they initially should have been ranked higher than Penn State by meeting the Nittany Lions head-on and beating them, the Black Knights’ sixteen-week run at #1 has come to an end. They’re still one of just a handful of unbeaten teams in the country, but UC Berkeley’s performance in knocking off the current Super League champions is significant.

Elsewhere in the rankings, 2004 national championship finalists Cal Poly continued their impressive form and have moved up a place, while getting a top ten spot for the first time is Washington State, who keep on winning in the Pacific Northwest. The Cougars’ only loss so far this season was to California in the Pac-10 tournament Final.

Despite a defeat by Poly since we last updated the rankings, UC Santa Barbara is another team moving up and remains in the race for one of the two seedings in Southern California along with San Diego State, which makes its debut on the Top 25 by stringing together four straight wins after a slow start to the season. One other team debuting this week is Maryland, which has been operating under the radar, but has put some serious points on the board and will be advancing to the Mid-Atlantic playoffs.

Oklahoma emerged from an extremely rigorous road trip, going three from three, and as a result the Sooners have moved up several notches. So following all the movement, and the debut of a couple of new teams, Dartmouth falls two places and Colorado State and Long Beach State have dropped out altogether to make way for this week’s TravelCorp College Top 25.

1 [2] California (8-0)
2 [1] Army (12-0)
3 [3] BYU (9-1)
4 [4] Utah (10-3)
5 [5] Penn State (10-3)
6 [6] Ohio State (11-1)
7 [7] Tennessee (11-0)
8 [8] Clemson (12-1)
9 [10] Cal Poly (10-1)
10 [11] Washington State (8-1)
11 [9] Dartmouth (9-3)
12 [13] UC Santa Barbara (7-3)
13 [12] UC Davis (6-2)
14 [16] Oregon State (7-3)
15 [14] Navy (6-4)
16 [15] St Mary’s (4-2)
17 [20] Oklahoma (10-3)
18 [17] Truman State (6-2)
19 [18] Wyoming (5-2)
20 [unranked] Maryland (7-2-2)
21 [19] Colorado (4-0)
22 [22] Texas A&M (4-0)
23 [unranked] San Diego State (4-2)
24 [21] Arizona (6-5)
25 [23] Arizona State (5-4)
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Steve19 said:
Wes, Rugby, are you guys getting any of the Super14? A real feast of rugby so far.
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no, but I just got HDTV and on one of the channels they are showing the USA 7s every night, which is cool because I know a couple of guys playing. one of my players from Zimbabwe told me about the Cheetahs/Hurricanes game...heard it was a good one.
 
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This weekend we will be traveling to Savannah for their annual St. Patrick's Day Tournament. We were bumped into the college division instead of the men's division due to a numbers game so this should be an complete walk in the park. They can start engraving the "THE" in tOSU today. Some of the teams we will be facing include:

University of North Florida
Virginia Military Institute
University of Miami
Ohio University
UNC-Charlotte
Radford
University of Maine
Minnesota State University, Mankato

I doubt we will throw out the first side the whole time we are there, unless we get a chance to play the 'Canes (because they are Coach Wes' third least athletics program behind scUM and USCum) or the Bobcats (because last Spring they begged us for a scrimmage and then let us drive over there only to back out once they realized we brought the A's with us).
 
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I probably can't make Savannah (still up in the air about Columbus on the 17th), but I'll definitely be there for the Life match. PM the travel plans when you get them, W.

Steve, I've seen one Six Nations match, that's all we seem to get here. Thanks for the link, Barlow. I'll give it a go.
 
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RugbyBuck said:
I probably can't make Savannah (still up in the air about Columbus on the 17th), but I'll definitely be there for the Life match. PM the travel plans when you get them, W.

Steve, I've seen one Six Nations match, that's all we seem to get here. Thanks for the link, Barlow. I'll give it a go.
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Okay...I will take your bag over to the shipping place tomorrow so it gets there next week. You should have it by the time we're in Atlanta. I will let you know when I have the travel plans for Atlanta...I am thinking about coming a day or two early to see a buddy who just moved to Buckhead.

Thanks as always Steve!
 
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Just returned from Savannah at 3 AM last night. First let me thank FKA and RugbyBuck for an excellent time on St. Pat's here in Columbus. After washing down lunch with a couple of "sodas", myself and another coach left Columbus at 8 PM, arriving in Savannah at about 7 AM. The first thing we did was woke up all of the players, who had been in Savannah since Friday morning. Our first game was at 11:00 AM against UNC-Charlotte. All weekend we put out a mixture of our top 15 with some young guys here and there. We knew the competition would not be too tough and we wanted to make sure we got some freshman and sophmores mixing in with the older guys. We breezed through the first game (only 25 minute halves) with a 35-5 victory. Unfortunately, we lost our All-American 8-man with a knee injury for the weekend. The prognosis is that it was just a matter of his knee cap sliding out of place...two to three weeks and he should be good to go. His younger brother, a freshman outside center, also left the game (and the tournament) after taking a blow to the mouth which required a couple of stitches. In the afternoon, we faced the team from Radford University in Virginia. Again, a pretty easy game, which saw a similar result...cruise control set on about 55...Bucks win 39-5.

Sunday's final saw us facing exactly who we came down there to play...Ohio University. There is a little history there from last Spring which I won't go into, but suffice it to say we owed them some payback. Fortunately for them, they were able to pick up a few motleys from the Queen City RFC men's team to keep the game respectable. There was quite a bit of "extra-curriculars" going on from the very beginning (our scrum half was the third player of the weekend to visit the ER after taking a nasty boot rake across the face which left him needing several stiches right below the nose...and that was followed by the referee breaking up several scuffles the rest of the game). In the end, it was a lot more of the same...we played slow and soft (the kids are on Spring Break) and did enough to score some points but also give up some dumb points. Final score: OSU 50 OU 22. The players are now in Panama City for the week before joining up with the coaching staff in Atlanta next weekend against the powerhouse men's team from Life College.
 
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Excellent work, men, on very little sleep and with the varied distractions of Savannah on St. Pat's weekend. Looking forward to seeing a well-rested A-side deliver a home loss to Life on Saturday.

Thanks for the kit and the art for my new office, wadc. Also, I found something unexpected in my suit coat pocket at the airport. You'll be seeing that again. Cheers.
 
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Well, the next Mrs. Rugby and I braved the wind and went to the tOSU v. Life U. rugby match on Saturday. Our boys kept playing and played tough, but it was almost as if the Life U. football team was playing the Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium. The score, I lost track after Life put up 50, may have been 100+ to 5. As a rugby fan it was great to watch. As a Buckeye, not so much, but I hope that our guys will take what they learned and apply it the rest of the college schedule. They (we) lost to one of the better men's teams in the country, certainly in the East. No shame in that. Good luck the rest of the season, Bucks!
 
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RB - lost my cell phone last week. Sorry I wasn't able to get a hold of you and let you know I would not be traveling. I owe you a PM and a beer...

The final score was Life 100 Ohio State 7. I spoke to our captain last night and he said it was not only like playing against a superior team, it was like Life wasn't even playing the same sport. Apparently they were superb at off-loading the ball while being tackled. He said they just had guys running off the ball carriers hip at every tackle. This weekend we get back to some mortal competition when we travel to Purdue for a solid tune-up match as we prepare for the Sweet 16.
 
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No worries. It's a tough trip to make two weekends in a row, at any rate. I saw some good work out of our guys, but Life was just incredible. It was like they were playing sevens. Their execution was unbelievable. I don't think we played particularly badly. I only saw a few times where we were really badly out of position. Their passing and support was brilliant. Even with the ass kicking we took, I enjoyed watching. See you up at the Ohio Classic next month, maybe. I should be ready to play by then.

The ball looks great in my new office.
 
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