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Aug 31, 2010, 12:43:13 AM8/31/10

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Well, here we go again with the Midwest Fall Rugby Season . . . good luck to everyone. All the current scores are below . . . enjoy . . .

I apologize for not getting a newsletter out since last November, but when my clients need attention I take care of business first. I hope all of you haven't missed my newsletters too much, and have been going to my site for updated information about Rugby in the Midwest.

You may not have noticed a Rugby Coaching Clinic held by the Illinois Youth Rugby Association this past winter that was a bit different than the normal USA Rugby Coaching Certification Program. I'm mentioning it 'cause I feel that the Clinic they put on is a great way to go with Coaches going over a topic, and then taking any question others wanted to ask. It's more like my old QB days when I use to attend, during high school, clinics put on by some of the great Collegiate Football Coaches of the day like Darrell Royal of the University of Texas and John McKay of the University of Southern California. They put on a few Clinics where they went over their entire practice schedule, pre-game regime, and game day Coaching philosophy. People would ask them if it would hurt them to let their competition know what they were doing, and both would chuckle and tell everyone that they wanted more parity among Collegiate Football Teams, and that it didn't matter if a Coach went about his practices and/or game day regime EXACTLY like their programs because that wouldn't win or lose a game. They both hoped that Coaches would use their methods to help them bring their respective programs up a level or two. They also said that you win or lose a game on how you handle the talent you have, i.e., if you have a QB that can't hit a guy doing a skinny post 40 yards down the field nine out of ten times, and hit other receivers with an accuracy of over 60%, you may NOT want to run a four yards and a cloud of dust offense, and especially if you don't have the talent to do that with wins all the time. Another words run your program to the best ability of your talent . . . don't attempt to change the athletic talent you have to a system that doesn't use that talent. I wish I could have been there to take part in the Clinic, if for no other reason than to get feedback from questions I would have asked. I think their type of Clinic goes way beyond USA Rugby's Certification Program by giving the Coaches a look at how great programs run their programs, and i think we need more Clinics like the one the IYRA ran last winter. Their Clinic wasn't one that got anyone Certified, but boy, I'll bet a lot of Coaches came away with knowledge and applications that they wouldn't get any other way. How do you think football became so popular over the years!

I'm still working on 'Club Totals' on my site, http://www.midwestrugby.org/unioninformation.htm, and then scroll down to where 'Club Totals' appear . . . click on any LAU and/or Youth Organization you'd care to and take a look at all the Clubs listed, and in quite a few cases you'll notice that a Club has more than one Team entered in a Competitive League. USA Rugby doesn't breakdown the CIPP database the way I've broken it down, which means there are several more Teams playing the game. What does that add up to? Well, I'm hoping you see the need to get more individuals to become Referees, because, as with most of the country, the Midwest has a shortage of 'active' Referees, i.e., the Midwest has a bunch of Certified Referees, but not enough of those are actively engaging themselves as a Referee on any given weekend. The Midwest needs more 'active' Referees, and that's not just the job/effort of a Referee Society . . . every member of the Midwest needs to get involved recruiting individuals to become active Referees . . . we need to recruit individuals three hundred sixty-five days a year, just like we recruit players. I think I'll have all the pages done this week, and I'll have a Midwest Club Totals page done also. I'll be putting contact information under each Club as I get the chance, which will give all of us a simple way to get in touch with other Clubs . . . I was going to do that a few years back, but that was when I was still getting paid by the Midwest as your Promotional Director, and was told by the Midwest administrators that was the job of LAUs . . . well, I still think a central location is better than going to each LAU site in the hopes of getting that kind of information, and the CIPP data base takes way too many clicks to get that information if it is available. I haven't had a problem finding the information I've been looking for except with a few organizations, and so, I'll continue with what I'm doing and hope that most of you think it's a good thing. I started putting it all together for the Midwest Referee Society, and have expanded it for our entire membership . . . enjoy . . .

I'm hoping that most of you are aware of what's been going on with what I call our Rugby Community Membership versus USA Rugby's Executive Board. Since the Board hasn't published its own minutes, and/or a budget, many have been calling for the entire Rugby Community Membership to NOT pay their individual and Club dues to USA Rugby as a protest . . . it's a little late for that, and about the only thing we can do right now is to let your Congress Members know that you/we don't think Rugby in the states is going in the right direction. If you're not aware of all of that start by going to Rugby Mag and reading Ed Hagert's article, http://www.rugbymag.com/magazine/current-issue/view-from-the-sidelines-failure-of-leadership.aspx. You may also want to go to Gainline, http://www.gainline.us/gainline/2010/08/ed-hagerty-speaks-out.html, to see all the comments about the article, which most are in favor of what Ed's article talks about, and then there's a very long article done on Kevin Roberts and the way he's handled himself AFTER becoming the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, http://www.gainline.us/gainline/2010/08/ed-hagerty-speaks-out.html . . . you'll get a huge insight into the way KR thinks, and how he goes about moving people out IF they don't agree with him, http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/12022/ . . . you'll probably want to print it out, and read it at your leisure.

Whew, with all that said let's get to the results from this past weekend. A huge THANKS goes out to all of you that sent me your results, and that includes a bunch of Referees . . . yeah!

Cheers,

Shawn

P.S. Don't forget to join the Google Group I've set up for the sheer convenience of getting my newsletters out in a timely fashion,
http://groups.google.com/group/MTRNews/about?hl=en.

Week ending Sunday, August 29th, 2010:

MEN:

Division I Conference:

Eastern League:

Chicago Griffins - 33 vs. Scioto Valley - 14

Chicago Griffins 'B' - 29 vs. Milwaukee Westside Harlequins DIII - 12

Cincinnati Wolfhounds - 20 vs. Indianapolis Impalas -

Western League:

Chicago Lions - 29 vs. Lincoln Park - 24

            Palmer - 85 vs. Milwaukee Westside Harlequins - 3

                For more information on the Eastern League go to http://www.midwestrugby.org/10mensdivision1easternleague.htm
                For more information on the Western League go to http://www.midwestrugby.org/10mensdivision1westernleague.htm
                For Division I Standings go to http://www.midwestrugby.org/10md1conferencestandings.htm

Division III:

Western Conference:

Central League:

Chicago Blaze - 22 vs. Northwest Indiana Exiles - 20

Chicago Riot - 31 vs. Rockford Ravens - 8

County Will Shamrocks - 40 vs. Illiana Misfits - 10

Lincoln Park - 19 vs. Champaign County Flatlanders - 7

Peoria - 120 vs. Chicago Dragons - 0

For more information on the Eastern Conference go to:

http://www.midwestrugby.org/09md3easternconference.htm

For more information on the Western Conference go to:

http://www.midwestrugby.org/09md3westernconference.htm