Red River Conference

The Red River Rugby Collegiate Conference was formed during summer 2014. The conferences consists of many of the same schools from the Big 12 conference that had previously been in the Allied Rugby Conference adding the Texas Christian University Rugby team. [1]

The Allied Rugby Conference (ARC) was an annual rugby union competition played among universities in the South Central United States. ARC featured a spring 15s competition and a fall 7s competition. The ARC folded in the summer of 2014.

Member schools

Institution Location Founded Enrollment Nickname Varsity
Sports 		NCAA D1
Conference 		Rugby
Since 		Head
Coach
University of Texas Austin, TX 1883 51,200 Longhorns 18 Big 12 1985 Chris Hopps
Texas A&M University College Station, TX 1876 53,337 Aggies 18 SEC 1968 James Lowrey
Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 1923 32,611 Red Raiders 16 Big 12 Phil Terrigno
University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 1890 29,721 Sooners 19 Big 12 1974 Doug Neubauer
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 1873 9,725 Horned Frogs 18 Big 12 TeShay Flowers
Baylor University Waco, TX 1845 15,195 Bears 16 Big 12 Mason Hering
Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 1860 31,527 Tigers 21 SEC Bob "Big Red" Causey

Notes:

Founding and early success

The formation of the Allied Rugby Conference was announced in May 2012.[2] The Allied Rugby Conference was formed with three schools from the D1-AA Southwest Conference (Texas, Baylor, Sam Houston State), two schools from the D1-A Mid-South Conference (Oklahoma, Texas A&M), and one school from D2 (Texas Tech).

The formation of this new conference was part of the trend in college rugby of regrouping into traditional conferences to take advantage of existing brands and rivalries. Another goal behind forming the ARC was to assist clubs to reach their maximum potential and raise the standard of rugby throughout the region.[3] The conference also formed to establish a core group of name-recognizable institutions to market for sponsorship & recruitment on the collective college campuses.[4]

Before the Conference had even begun play, they had already secured sponsorship from the World Rugby Shop,[5] and the Allied conference also secured a sponsorship with Gilbert. The ARC was formed to get the teams significant exposure from a marketing and brand perspective. Games are podcast and in some instances live web cast.[6] The ARC webcasts a conference "game of the week" each Monday during the spring 2012 competition.[7]

Leadership

TeShay Flowers is the Conference Commissioner.

Competitions

The ARC announced a desire to pursue a bowl game type of event, which would involve playing matches against teams from neighboring conferences.[8]

Regular season

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