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