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Mar 27, 2015
5:40:33pm
Oklahoma declared ineligible for post-season play.
The University of Oklahoma rugby team has been declared ineligible for post-season play. They fielded several players that were not even enrolled in the school. Goff Rugby reports:
The University of Oklahoma rugby team is officially out of the DIA playoffs, having reportedly voluntarily stepped down from eligibility.

The Sooners would have been banned from the playoffs anyway as a DIA Disciplinary Committee found they had used three ineligible players during their undefeated run in the Red River Conference. USA Rugby and DIA Rugby discovered the transgressions when they were reported by program sponsor Alan Velie and incoming coach Doug Newhauer as a self-report following the ouster of former Head Coach Jason Horowitz for different reasons.

Mike Andersen, Cale Stumpff, and Colby Townsend all played in conference games despite not being students at Oklahoma. The transgression bypasses simple missed paperwork, or fielding a current student who had used up his eligibility. These players were not enrolled at OU at all.

So OU will forfeit four Red River games that fielded at least one of those players, and as a result are no longer Red River champions.

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Oklahoma has been deemed ineligible for any and all post-season play in the Spring of 2015, and is on probation for the 2015-16 season.

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I presume this also applies to the Round One game against Utah in the Varsity Cup.
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