Wait,Tennessee has a Rugby Program???

#29
#29
My buddy (Ethan Massa) was on the 98 NTitle team, and his Brother (Bute is what they called him) was on the rugby club team that year too.
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#34
#34
Midfielder10 said:
CLub but have legit roadtrips...uniforms..opponents etc. I hope rugby and mens lacrosse get varsity status soon.
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Too bad Title IX prevents that. I played on the club Ultimate Frisbee team, and we went around to tournaments at other schools throughout the year. Same concept with Rugby. They travel and compete on a national level, we just can't call them a varsity sports.

Other club sports at UT: field hockey, men's soccer, water polo, etc.

UT Knoxville | RecSports

There's a list of the active ones. Obviously some aren't on a national level, but RecSports does recognize them as club sports.
 
#39
#39
Yes UT rugby is legit!! I went to the SEC tournament to watch my brother who plays for Ole Miss. The opening game UT was beating Alabama like 70-0 ( tries count the same as touchdowns) Vols went on to win the SEC championship the next day!!
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#40
#40
I played rugby in high school at Maryville, and we had a few players go to UT and play there. It's a fun atmosphere and I recommend people go out to a game sometime.

Interesting fact: My step-dad played rugby for UT in the inaugural year of the club, 1970, and they just recently had a 50th Anniversary meeting in Knoxville.
http://www.tennesseerugby.com/photos/team/UTRFC1970.jpg
 
#41
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JacksonVOL81 said:
Too bad Title IX prevents that. I played on the club Ultimate Frisbee team, and we went around to tournaments at other schools throughout the year. Same concept with Rugby. They travel and compete on a national level, we just can't call them a varsity sports.

Other club sports at UT: field hockey, men's soccer, water polo, etc.

UT Knoxville | RecSports

There's a list of the active ones. Obviously some aren't on a national level, but RecSports does recognize them as club sports.
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You can't blame Title IX for Rugby, you can blame the NCAA. The NCAA doesn't sponsor or sanction Rugby, so member schools are not allowed to field varsity programs.

In the next 5-7 years, you'll see UT add men's soccer, women's lacrosse, and another women's sport with a high scholarship limit, likely equestrian. There's a lot of pressure from the SEC to add men's soccer and women's lacrosse, multiple schools are believed to have committed to adding one or both of those sports.
 
#42
#42
and by the way... Title IX has nothing to do with the rugby club.. because they don't offer rugby scholarships...
 
#43
#43
so it has nothing to do with scholarships wasted on non-revenue earning sports such as baseball, softball, gymnastics, etc.... that's why IT'S A FREAKING CLUB!!! No scholarships are used whatsoever. Remarks complete. It's a good club that we rugby men pay for... and enjoy the competition, trips, etc.
 
#44
#44
Cajun_Vol said:
I played rugby in high school at Maryville, and we had a few players go to UT and play there. It's a fun atmosphere and I recommend people go out to a game sometime.

Interesting fact: My step-dad played rugby for UT in the inaugural year of the club, 1970, and they just recently had a 50th Anniversary meeting in Knoxville.
http://www.tennesseerugby.com/photos/team/UTRFC1970.jpg
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wouldn't it be a 40 yr anniversary
 
#45
#45
In the 60s as a UT student I had the opportunity to work with the sports clubs office which was housed at the Student Aquatic Center. I played on the UT Soccer Club team that was one of the better non-varsity teams in the south. I organized the Southeastern Soccer Classic which was an 8 team tourney held on the intramural fields besides the SAC. We had several good club teams at this tourney with UGA, UK, LSU, Vandy, GT, Georgia St. and Carson-Newman. UT also had a good Ice Hockey team made up mostly of local HS talent. Yes, Ice Hockey was one of the top HS sports in Knoxville in the 60s...thanks to the presence of the Knoxville Knights, an ECHL team. I used to take trips with the team which traveled in the Knight's converted bus...it was something...the closest club competition was in Ohio so the Vols ended up playing in places like Dayton and Athens...its greatest game was at Bowling Green...whose team was a varsity sport with 11 scholarship canadians...The BGSU hockey arena was new and sat 2,500. Needless to say the place was full for the Vols...many fans couldn't believe that Tennessee had a hockey team (club)...the Vols put up a great battle but lost 2-0. If the UT athletic department was smart at that time...they would have made Ice Hockey a varsity sport and it would probably have been the third highest moneymaker since it would have packed the Colesium when the likes of Michigan, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Harvard, Princeton, would come to town.

I hope before I die that UT will have a men's varsity soccer team...its way long overdo...women probably need to add gymnastics first then maybe lacrosse...

On the pecking order of men's varsity sports to be added I would say soccer, wrestling (again), not sure about lacrosse and rugby not until the NCAA approves it as a competitive sport with a national championship.
 
#48
#48
I talk to a friend of mine about the team all the time (he's actually playing in the 7s tournament). He said that there's actually more honor playing in the club level than the NCAA. We compete with clubs across the nation, since most schools don't have an NCAA team.
 
#49
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crusse10 said:
I talk to a friend of mine about the team all the time (he's actually playing in the 7s tournament). He said that there's actually more honor playing in the club level than the NCAA. We compete with clubs across the nation, since most schools don't have an NCAA team.
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You mean they could, for instance, play the Chattanooga Rugby Club or something?
 
#50
#50
We used to go to the rugby parties they held at that bar behind Wendy's on the strip....Can't remember the name of it back then....You haven't lived until you have been to a rugby party....It's a new level of insanity that can not be described.
 
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