"Eastern Illinois – readers must know we have no love for their head coach. Frank Graziano has single-handedly scuttled the push for varsity women’s rugby. He could have used his post to meet with other ADs and outline how a rugby club becomes a rugby program, but instead turned his nose up at all of it, refused to even acknowledge rugby exists outside of him, and misled his players.

We have no use for the man, but the athletes are good, he has them believing in an exciting, if predictable, way of playing, and now they are in the full DI Midwest league. So we will see."

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