A Sea Of Red

Crew (or rowing) is going to be added to LU's club sport collection:
https://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=7965

Boooooo!

Well Proto what club sport would YOU have preferred since youre the all knowing master of such things (and apparently not a fan of rowing)

Crew is actually a pretty school sport for exercise. And the regattas are actually great ways to lazily hang out and enjoy a morning. But that's just been my experience with the sport on the NCAA level.

Crew is actually a big thing where I'm from (Massachusetts). There is always tournaments being held every weekend in the summer in the city I live in. It actually is an enjoyable sport to participate in and watch.

Dear Prototype,

What do you like?

Your pal,
Me

PS: Crew is fine with me, and I might even come out and watch . . . . . ONCE!

Dated a crew girl once. Fun sport, but the chicks are in a very softball/field hockey category.

By the way, it didn't even last 3 months.

Rooster Cogburn wrote:Dear Prototype,

What do you like?

Your pal,
Me

PS: Crew is fine with me, and I might even come out and watch . . . . . ONCE!

How many schools in our area have a crew team? Your honor - I rest my case...

Why do we need a crew club team? For the record - I love all sports - love watching crew at the Olympics, love watching Rugby and cricket too, doesn't mean I think we should have them at Liberty.

prototype wrote:

Rooster Cogburn wrote:Dear Prototype,

What do you like?

Your pal,
Me

PS: Crew is fine with me, and I might even come out and watch . . . . . ONCE!

How many schools in our area have a crew team? Your honor - I rest my case...

Why do we need a crew club team? For the record - I love all sports - love watching crew at the Olympics, love watching Rugby and cricket too, doesn't mean I think we should have them at Liberty.

UVA....who has a great all around athletice program...I rest my case.

Guess i should have researched that one. Still think its fit there, more than here.

prototype wrote:How many schools in our area have a crew team? Your honor - I rest my case...

How many schools in our area have a Division 1 club hockey team? Your honor - I rest my case...

But that is a cool sport that people actually want to see. Not many people are lining up to attend a rowing event at Ivy Lake. Come on guys - have any of you been to a collegiate rowing match? We could have every sport and club team, I think our focus should be on academics and additions there.

prototype wrote:I think our focus should be on academics and additions there.

So you would complain about anything we added in this aspect. Got it.

I just want to say this too....FF is 90% about sports so even the "club" sports are going to get more attention then academics ON THIS site...but lucky for us and the University the school isnt run off of FF. They are making improvements in the academic area as well....but maybe 1/10 of the improvements made will be mentioned here simply b/c we dont know or dont care to mention them on FF being a pro dominate sports site.

We should mention them in here. I would love to hear about that stuff and don't have that many avenues to hear about it. I'm not being trying to be a downer, just am now a big fan of crew. it's a club sport, so it shouldn't be funded by the school anyway - so have at it. I will look for a SuperJon/BJ crewing team event in the future:)

I dont think you are trying to be a downer, simply concerned about the future and current academics...I just wanted to let you know why FF doesnt generally post them, but remind everyone that just b/c they are not posted doesnt mean they are happening.


As far as you saying FF being your only way of finding out about these things, looks like LU understands there is a disconnect in that area and are aggressively working to reconnect so you're aware of everything that goes on here, not just sports or just academics.

They don't publish the little things they do for each individual department academically. I highly doubt there's going to be a press release written saying that the seminary is getting more classroom space in the next couple of years. A press release saying they are giving the business department the entire fourth floor of Demoss doesn't create near the buzz to incoming students that adding club sports teams does. Yes, it's likely more important, but it's not nearly as flashy and doesn't create the buzz that things like this do.

SuperJon wrote:A press release saying they are giving the business department the entire fourth floor of Demoss .

Are they really going to do that? When I was there they always said they'd get the entire 3rd floor.

SuperJon wrote:They don't publish the little things they do for each individual department academically. I highly doubt there's going to be a press release written saying that the seminary is getting more classroom space in the next couple of years. A press release saying they are giving the business department the entire fourth floor of Demoss doesn't create near the buzz to incoming students that adding club sports teams does. Yes, it's likely more important, but it's not nearly as flashy and doesn't create the buzz that things like this do.

exactly, the key is to make sure the Alum's such as Prototype know these things some how, which LU is wanting to do. Are these things website material...no. But they are the concerns of our Alums...I hear all the time questions on how the school is academically, financially and spiritually so it's just a matter of making sure they know wither it be through medians LU is going to start using or however else.

Then again, they do post stuff like this, it's just a matter of people paying attention:

n the weeks and months to come, Liberty will be unveiling many projects, including the new Thomas Indoor Soccer Complex, the Snowflex year-round ski slope, a building expansion for Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, renovations for the Visual Communication Arts department and a new performing arts center.

Falwell also announced that the tennis courts are back on schedule to be rebuilt on Campus North and that the Career Center will be relocating onto the first floor of Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center, in the space that formerly housed the university bookstore. There are also future plans to relocate the School of Business onto the fourth floor of DeMoss Hall.

http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P ... 5&MID=7540

prototype wrote:We should mention them in here. I would love to hear about that stuff and don't have that many avenues to hear about it. I'm not being trying to be a downer, just am now a big fan of crew. it's a club sport, so it shouldn't be funded by the school anyway - so have at it. I will look for a SuperJon/BJ crewing team event in the future:)

Ease up on proto guys. He just officially became an LU grad yesterday!!

Conrats, man! I hear that CMIS was killer, hahaha. It was pretty tough for me too.

The big thing with CMIS is the fact that there is SO much work...and its not hard work...just REALLY tedious. I The first day when Mrs Zaffke said to expect 6 hours of work I thought she was joking...until I saw the first assignment)

We missed this. A while ago. October 25, to be exact.

Liberty Journal wrote:CREW TEAM FARES WELL IN 1ST COMPETITION


On Sunday, Oct. 25, the new Liberty University Crew Team took one giant stroke toward establishing a successful rowing program at Liberty. The men’s and women’s teams placed in their first regatta, Head of the Lafayette, in Norfolk, Va.

The teams competed in four events: Collegiate 8+ (both Men’s and Women’s) and Collegiate 4+ (Men’s and Women’s); “4” and “8” denote the number of rowers in the boat. The Women’s 4+ team took third place; the Men’s Collegiate 4+ team finished fourth, three seconds behind the College of William & Mary. In the 8+ competition, the men’s boat finished fifth behind Old Dominion University and beating out a crew from William & Mary.

Liberty University Crew formed as a club sport in March. At the helm is coach Mark Furler, an experienced rower and alumnus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. The teams are also coached by Ashley McCowen Botterill. A graduate and former coach at Princeton University, Botterill helped the Tigers capture an NCAA title in 1997.

LU crew members have been undergoing a variety of workouts in and out of the water since spring.

Students are able to use LU’s Ivy Lake, located just outside Lynchburg, for training. When not on the lake, the athletes practice on the upper level of LU’s LaHaye Ice Center on rowing machines called ergs.

Crew is just one facet of Liberty’s Club Sports Department. For more information about Liberty Crew, email crew@liberty.edu.

http://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/i ... N=66992561

BJWilliams wrote:The big thing with CMIS is the fact that there is SO much work...and its not hard work...just REALLY tedious. I The first day when Mrs Zaffke said to expect 6 hours of work I thought she was joking...until I saw the first assignment)

I loathed INFT and CMIS with a burning passion known only to those in the darkest circle of dante's inferno.

This is a silly argument. We have crew so we can say "Yeh we have a rowing team, its pretty cool. I've been out to our lake to watch them a few times. What? Oh, yeh we have a lake." (insert 90's skater impersonation).