Update: Following yesterday's post regarding USARFU chief executive Nigel Melville's role with Grand Prix Sports & Entertainment, Melville emailed to confirm his place on the company's board of directors.
'USAR[FU] are entitled to a place on [GPSE's] board', he wrote, adding that another representative of the union could take his place. The topic is to be addressed this weekend at the USA 7s tournament.
Melville also confirmed that GPSE's rights to USARFU's club and territorial 7s championships and a future collegiate 7s championship had lapsed.
Meanwhile at the USA 7s, the US Rugby Football Foundation is staging a pair of fundraisers: a scramble golf tournament on Friday morning, and poker game that evening. The latter event, which features a guaranteed prize of $5,000, is to include past Eagle captains Mike Saunders, Chris Lippert, and Brian Vizard, USRFF's director. Proceeds will be directed to the organization's youth and high school development efforts.
'USAR[FU] are entitled to a place on [GPSE's] board', he wrote, adding that another representative of the union could take his place. The topic is to be addressed this weekend at the USA 7s tournament.
Melville also confirmed that GPSE's rights to USARFU's club and territorial 7s championships and a future collegiate 7s championship had lapsed.
Meanwhile at the USA 7s, the US Rugby Football Foundation is staging a pair of fundraisers: a scramble golf tournament on Friday morning, and poker game that evening. The latter event, which features a guaranteed prize of $5,000, is to include past Eagle captains Mike Saunders, Chris Lippert, and Brian Vizard, USRFF's director. Proceeds will be directed to the organization's youth and high school development efforts.
Example 496 proving Nigel Melville doesn't get it. BTW, nice business oversight by the USAR Board.
$275,000 in salary just doesn't buy what it use to.
The IRB and USAR in a rugby gambling investment. Who the f*ck is in charge of this piece of work???
Posted by: next man up | 10 February 2010 at 13:09
The IRB isn't in this investment scheme, just the dumbshits at USAR. I bet the IRB will have a cow when they find out though. How can these guys be so stupid? Its not even like there is somebody with a bunch of cash on offer. Just a non-rugby whack job trolling for money. If it wasn't so sad you'd have to laugh at these fools.
Posted by: IRB is not involved | 10 February 2010 at 13:19
Why would the IRB be mad at anything Nigel and Co. does? We keep hearing that he is our CEO because the IRB wants him in that position and we have to do what the IRB says in order to keep geeting welfare grants from them.
If Tatham's rights to the club and collegiate 7s have lapsed, what is he left with? My understanding of the contract (which I have only seen a draft of posted on this site) was that he had exclusive rights to any professional 7s competition iun the US. If this is what he is promoting, I suppose we would want someone with USAR to be on their Board, right? After all, this is the guy who wanted to play 5 v 5 or 6 v 6 or something like that in an arena football sized facility.
Frankly, I'm sick of all this stuff. The USCRA, Tatham, everything. Rugby is no longer fun to me. I recently made this comment to a respected rugby friend of mine and he told me to get out and ref a high school game to help me remember what we all love about this sport. I plan to do that in a couple of weeks. I just hope I'm not confronted with an issue of college kids playing on high school teams or something else we've manufactured that is ruining the game in this country...
Posted by: Jaded | 10 February 2010 at 15:32
1000 bucks on Nigel to cut & run just before the IRB drops the grants to USA Rugby, which will be right after the Eagles crash out of the 2011 WC without a win. A new set of clowns will step in.
ARNOT - MELVILLE - ????
Posted by: Jokers Wild | 10 February 2010 at 20:17
Is there something to the uscra blatantly copying the all-american shield for its logo? I guess because that was the genesis of the movement? It can't be completely innocent or coincidence. It does look pretty nice though.
Posted by: college | 10 February 2010 at 21:26
The logo lacks any nod to rugby or collegiate athletics. It looks like clip art. Pretty weak in my opinion.
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