A Sea Of Red

From the Fredericksburg fishwrap ... this has some great background on Asa and others.

The Free Lance Star wrote:Liberty is the home for second chances
Liberty stocking up with local transfer talent

Date published: 8/29/2008
BY TAFT COGHILL JR.

LYNCHBURG--
An $8-per-hour job stocking shelves at a wholesale food distribution warehouse in Culpeper County opened Kent Hicks' eyes.

Asa Chapman needed two years at Fork Union Military Academy and a brush with the law to re-emerge with a clearer head, while all Alex Stadler needed was a chance to get over some homesickness.

The three former Free Lance-Star All-Area football players got their second chances at Liberty University, a Baptist liberal arts college founded in 1971 by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.

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Taft, is a very good writter, he is the UVA beat guy up in Fredericksburg.

Dr. Falwell would have loved that title and this quote from Coach Rocco:

"I think the fact that we're a faith-based university makes us very open to second chances," said Rocco, who initially recruited all three players when he was an assistant coach at Virginia. "Everybody in life gets to some point, some time where they would need or welcome a second opportunity."

Great article actually I am working on a local kid who wouldnt be considered a transfer but he didnt enroll in the juco that Va Tech sent him too attend and he is now back home in Amherst...All-State LB/Wr Derrick McCoy

givemethemic wrote:Taft, is a very good writter, he is the UVA beat guy up in Fredericksburg.

GMTM: Butchering the English language, one misplaced comma at a time.

And that's why he does radio.

Cider Jim wrote:And that's why he does radio.

i thought that was because he had a radio face..

He could have turned it into a haiku. That would have been fun.