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<blockquote data-quote="skittles" data-source="post: 300623"><p>The idea of working with the NCAA is a good idea, in theory, but budgets for men's sports are already so stretched that there is no chance of rugby being sponsored by most schools, let alone the conferences or NCAA. Just today, Duquesne has stripped four sports, including baseball, to free up $1M of its $16.8M budget to put into other sports.</p><p></p><p>Women's rugby is on the list of NCAA emerging sports, but the odds of anything happening as far as scholarship-based men's rugby are slim to nil, especially in the short-term.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps a more concerted effort to get college football players who didn't make the NFL to play rugby is more along the lines of what's required. Of course, though, they wouldn't want to do this without some level of compensation, and it would take finding a select type of player who can transition near-seamlessly between the two games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skittles, post: 300623"] The idea of working with the NCAA is a good idea, in theory, but budgets for men's sports are already so stretched that there is no chance of rugby being sponsored by most schools, let alone the conferences or NCAA. Just today, Duquesne has stripped four sports, including baseball, to free up $1M of its $16.8M budget to put into other sports. Women's rugby is on the list of NCAA emerging sports, but the odds of anything happening as far as scholarship-based men's rugby are slim to nil, especially in the short-term. Perhaps a more concerted effort to get college football players who didn't make the NFL to play rugby is more along the lines of what's required. Of course, though, they wouldn't want to do this without some level of compensation, and it would take finding a select type of player who can transition near-seamlessly between the two games. [/QUOTE]
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