A Sea Of Red

Chris offers up his grades and I'd like to hear yours as well ...

NewsAdvance wrote:Liberty’s midseason football report card

By Chris Lang
Sports writer
Published: October 16, 2008

Danny Rocco’s third season at Liberty has been one filled with historic accolades.

With the Flames’ victory Saturday over Stony Brook, they ran the nation’s longest FCS win streak to a school record 11 games. Liberty is currently on the school’s longest home win streak (also 11 games), and has matched the best start in school history at 6-0.

Liberty moved this week to No. 14 in The Sports Network’s Top 25, the school’s highest ranking since it was No. 14 in August 1996. The Flames are firmly in the discussion for one of eight at-large bids to the 16-team FCS playoffs, and as Rocco has reminded his team often, the chance for an “extraordinary season” is there.

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6-0, that's the only grade that matters

Just FYI for all ... I'll get back to some of the blog stuff this evening (Lafayette scouting report, FCS picks, weekly watch). Basketball media day kind of threw a wrench into my week. So look for that stuff tonight and tomorrow.

As always Chris, thanks for the good work.

What would you give the team so far if you were to grade them based on the same categories?

Offense: A
Defense: C+
Special Teams: A
Intangibles: A+
Overall: A- (The defense weighs it down from an A)

crowd turnout: A
crowd noise: B-

i know it was a blowout but the whole student section was dead last week, and that includes me. hopefully everyone is more awake and alive this week. especially with parents weekend i hope we break records, because we need the home town advantage this week.

I would give the crowd a B+ and the crowd noise a C

that was for the season, not just last week. last week was horrible, but we were pretty good at coastal for so far away. and i feel like we were good the first few games at home, but i could be wrong. i know it wasn't best but it was decently loud

last year i commented on my dissappointment with the crowd at homecoming which was the only home game i got to and was thrown under the bus for it...nice to see we can increase our standards each year, because that will be what grows this program
hopefully ill be pleasantly suprised come this homecoming

i think you will be. homecoming is being marketed big time to alumni this year, so we should break all records at that game

Offense: B+
The run game ranks seventh in the country. Quarterback Brock Smith ranks eighth in pass efficiency. Rashad Jennings is averaging 145 yards per game on the ground, tied for fourth in the country.

Top 10 nationally in three categories but only a B+ ranking for the offense. That's slightly better than the B- given the defense which has had a couple second half lapses.

The shutout pushed the defense from C to B territory.

C'mon, Chris, this is something I would have expected from the last LU scribe.


I hate it when people assign grades to 'intangibles', which by definition is something that cannot be graded. Next time say 'miscellaneous'...

Ed,
I just used the template that our Tech writer used for his report card.