Division 2 scoring benchmarks

Sat, 19 Apr
Utah Valley	13	Final
East Carolina	11

Sat, 19 Apr
Middlebury	34	Final
Northern Colorado	12

Sat, 19 Apr
Coast Guard RFC	34	Final
Loyola	12

Sat, 19 Apr
Michigan	13	Final
Radford	48

Guys,
Here's some insight into how wide open Division 2 is and some benchmark scores. A good team will scores about 12 points in a game. Michigan is such a team. To win you need to be able to score about 40 a game, and hold you opponent to about 10.

Taking the leap from being a good team, to a dominate team will take just as much hard work in the coming year as we put in to the last year.

We've gotten to the point of holding a quality opponent to about 10 point a game. Now we need to stretch for the next bench mark scoring 30-40 points a game every game.



Toby

Benchmarks for team performance

Round 1 of division 1 national playoff results:
UC Berkeley Tennessee 102-3
San Diego State 32-15 Arkansas State:
Kutztown 27-23 Bowling Green:
BYU 48-22 Dartmouth:
St Mary’s 52-40 Air Force:
Cal Poly 51-27 Army:
Colorado Utah 31-30
Penn State Minnesota 52-24,

-Half the winners scored more than 50 points. Lowest winning score: 27.
-Midwest Union 0-2 in first round--BG lost to a relative minnow Kutztown, and Minnesota got blown out.
-Losing teams Minnesota, Utah, Dartmouth, and Army have paid semi-professional staffs, stadiums and every advantage a team could have.

This time next year we need to be capable of scoring more than 50 against a solid opponent or winning a close game against an equal opponent, or putting up a huge score against an inferior opponent with our b-side.

http://www.americanrugbynews.com/artman/publish/college/Ups_and_downs_of_the_Round_of_16.shtml

Will power goals and performance

Goal setting, goal directedness and goal achievement are the most important skills you will get from you rugby experience. Theses traits will set you on a path to success, get you better interviews, get you better jobs and make you more money.

This New York times article has some useful tips:
1. practice makes will power stronger and better
2. blood sugar affects your resolve
3. getting better on one area of you life will improve other areas.
4. spending energy in one area, reduces will in other areas

The article is short and full of references to real research results so read it, and if you are really interested track down the original sources.

Here's how we apply it to rugby.
-practice setting goals and attaining them, and you will get better.
-eat good food in the right quantities at the right time for performance, also focus on replenishing energy as needed--you'd be surprized how much energy you need to really perform.
-set and achieve rugby goals and your discipline for attaining other goals will increase.
-when concentrating on goals in one area, this may require setting aside other goals, for example if we are working hard for playoffs, we delay achievement in other areas--don't study for the MCAT's during the playoff push if we can control it.

Goal setting and achievement is another important self programming skill useful in rugby and in life.