[ProudPapa73]

But I don't know if the FBS games help us...sure, it's better than d2...but when we play FBS games and lose by ten...we're content...but in reality we may not have gotten the other team's best shot.

LU struggles in close games...I'd like us to see more 1aa out of conference games...CAA, Socon, the higher end of the MEAC & Patriot...this would help us more for conference play.

Elon, Hampton, Lehigh, Lafayette, Furman, Western Carolina, Townson, Youngstown State, etc.

Just my opinion.

Ditto.
Go Flames!!!

[ProudPapa73]

It's hard to enjoy a win like this. It feels like an exhibition game, or a Globetrotters show. There have to be FCS opponents willing to sign a home and away. And for the years where we get 12 games then let's do 6 and 6 if that's what it takes to get real competition.
Let's blow out ODU. Then we can celebrate!

Go Flames!!!

[Purple Haize]

Ive said this before and it bears repeating I think. The reason teams wont play us, especially in Lynchburg is threefold:

1) The airport (most of your teams west of say Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama and Mississippi are going to have to fly in)

and the more likely two reasons

2) Jerry Falwell (Most schools still have coaches and/or administrators who still have less than happy sentiments about the man even though he has been dead for 6+ years)
3) It isnt worth it to them. Liberty isnt the "easy win" that it was in the Karcher years, but at the same time, it still would not be considered a "good win" that it would be with other schools but it would always be a "bad loss" because of the act that voters and college football observers would see it as (insert top level FCS school here) LOSING the game, as opposed to Liberty winning the game

Jon did raise a good point in that we may just have to swallow it and go with a balanced schedule in 12 game years (6 home 6 away) in order to get a series with a team like a Central Arkansas, Wofford, Youngstown State, etc. We get Montana here in I think 2015 but that more proves the exception and not the rule.

Does this argument hold true with teams like W&M, Western Carolina, Towson, Deleware?

You can't tell me that all FCS teams feel this way. In my opinion, almost any FCS school is better than playing a D2. I couldn't stay for the whole thing yesterday, it just got boring. I don't even mind having one D2 on the schedule, but the worst part about yesterday is the realization that the same will happen when we play Brevard.

W and M, Delaware and Towson are much easier to get to via air than Lynchburg. Plus, the population density near the last 2 schools help matters.
As for Brevard, they might just forfeit

[BJWilliams]

All of them...probably not. But, enough of them have an issue with it (at least the top level teams) that we dont really get that many of them on a yearly basis. I mean we get Montana in 2015 and Richmond next year but my guess is the only way we really get the top teams for even 3 non-conference home games is if we tie it in with another sport (like basketball, baseball or softball). Also, PH is right in that W&M, Delaware and Towson are easier to get to by air. Most of your teams from West of the Mississippi (where a lot of your top teams reside these days) are going to have to go into either Roanoke or Richmond and then bus in just to get to Lynchburg ahead of the game