A Sea Of Red

Liberty was not one of the schools selected as possible host sites. The committee went with all Power 5 schools.

9 SEC
5 PAC 12
3 ACC
2 B12
1 Big Ten

The 20 schools selected will be reduced to 16. NCAA will not admit it, but they will go with the top 16 seeds. That's funny, because making tournament wasn't a requirement to submit a bid to host.

I mean, what else were you actually expecting?

Don’t answer that.

Though we have some of the nicest facilities in the country - we also have the worst traveling setup in the country - with no interstates and a terrible airport that only flies small planes into one city. It's a chore to get in here.

Anyone who has trouble getting to Liberty, should stay home. It's easier to get here than some schools on the list. I've been to them for softball.

You aren't exactly known to be able to take your personal bias out of things....what proto said is absolutely correct.

Lynchburg may not have an interstate highway, but we have 460 and 29, that lead to interstate highways, (both are 4 lane highways). Anyone who has trouble getting to Lynchburg, should stay home. They shouldn't be traveling.

Over the course of life, one should develop the ability to see a thing from points of view other than their own.

Oh, never mind.

Quit whining dude. All of what prototype said is correct.

Prototype was 50% correct.

Saying that we have the "worst traveling setup in the country" is some pretty strong hyperbole on proto's part.
Having said that, it's not very good, especially for flghts.

ballcoach15 wrote: ↑April 30th, 2021, 5:09 pm Anyone who has trouble getting to Liberty, should stay home. It's easier to get here than some schools on the list. I've been to them for softball.

Ok - maybe not the worst - I was being a little over the top, but it's not about one person and his family - it's about a big team and all their stuff (and in this case - multiple teams) Teams have to fly into Roanoke, or even Charlotte or Raleigh and drive in. That's more then a lot of teams want to deal with. Teams don't know that 460 and 29 are decent roads - they see them as highways and not interstates. Biggest thing are area can do is talk ROA and LYH into merging and build an international airport in the middle of Roanoke and Lynchburg.

Go to Athens, GA for softball if you want to see a venue hard to get to.

It's been a while but isn't that only like 30 miles from the interstate?

prototype wrote: ↑May 1st, 2021, 3:23 pm

ballcoach15 wrote: ↑April 30th, 2021, 5:09 pm Anyone who has trouble getting to Liberty, should stay home. It's easier to get here than some schools on the list. I've been to them for softball.

Ok - maybe not the worst - I was being a little over the top, but it's not about one person and his family - it's about a big team and all their stuff (and in this case - multiple teams) Teams have to fly into Roanoke, or even Charlotte or Raleigh and drive in. That's more then a lot of teams want to deal with. Teams don't know that 460 and 29 are decent roads - they see them as highways and not interstates. Biggest thing are area can do is talk ROA and LYH into merging and build an international airport in the middle of Roanoke and Lynchburg.

Bedford?

This is just my sometimes twisted sense of logic speaking, but since teams who fly in still have to get on a bus with all their equipment to go to the game venue, IMHO it's not a huge deal if that bus ride is an hour or 2 instead of 15 minutes.