Complaining time...

So in my last post I talked about how my team and I could possible be royally screwed over in this tournament...well we were. Big time.

It all started a couple of weeks ago when we were "forgotten" when they made the schedule up for the NCAA tournament. For the past two years the games have been scheduled Friday and Saturday, but since this year they "forgot" our team they scheduled them for Saturday and Sunday. Well we don't play on Sunday. We contacted them about it and they gave us three options: 1. We could drop out of the tournament-no 2. Since we aren't technically a BYU sport we can play on Sunday and override the University's rule-NO 3. We could continue to play and if we qualify for the Sweet 16 in Florida, they would switch the games to Friday and Saturday. Obviously, that is the only smart choice out of those three, so we went with it. We played our next games and qualified for the Sweet 16. THREE days before we are supposed to leave for Florida, they tell us that they "tried" all they could but they couldn't switch the schedule around. There went everything we've worked for out the window...there goes the seniors dreams of beating Penn State and getting further in the tournament, there goes the dreams of all of us that believed we could really win it this year, and we could have. Now we can't thanks to USARugby.

But here we are in Sanford, Florida still going to play our last game and make a huge statement. We've gotten huge recognition from this( article in the New York Times, article in the Daily Herald, and numerous emails from supporters) but we won't let that get to our heads. We came here to play rugby, with or without the recognition we would have still stuck to our standards and would forfeit the game on Sunday. So for all of you BYU rugby haters out there that think we should just play because it isn't a big deal...oh but it is, and we aren't willing to jeopardize ourselves eternally for an 80 minute game that we could lose anyways. So we are going to play tomorrow against University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, kill them like we want to, make the statement that we deserve to play in this tournament, but in the end we will walk away with a forfeit to Penn State this Sunday because we understand what's more important. Come what may and love it, right? This was a great experience for us and we will be blessed for our decision. This too shall pass...

My final words are screw you USA rugby...we are coming for you next year!