A Sea Of Red

Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware


DSU Football Official Site



Kenneth Carter
1st Season as Head Coach

2015 Schedule

• 09/05 - @ Liberty
  09/12 - @ Kent State
  09/19 - Chowan
  10/03 - Morgan State
  10/10 - @ Hampton
  10/17 - @ Florida A&M
  10/24 - South Carolina State
  10/31 - Bethune-Cookman
  11/07 - @ NC Central
  11/14 - @ NC A&T
  11/21 - Howard

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Liberty -36.5

This just got me really excited

ERIKA might make the opener a wet breezy one!

If there is one subject where I can speak with experience and clarity it is Erika! Even though I admit I will probably never figure her out completely.

It is finally gameweek!

Delaware Online wrote:Dawn of a new era for Delaware State football
Hornets hoping for hot start under Carter

Kevin Tresolini, The News Journal 1:50 p.m. EDT August 29, 2015


(Photo: JASON MINTO/THE NEWS JOURNAL)

DOVER – The Delaware State football team was up with the rising sun Saturday inside Alumni Stadium.

With their first game under new coach Kenny Carter a week away, the Hornets can’t wait to get started.

The same could be said for Saturday’s crack-of-dawn practice, even though alarms had to be set early.

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Interesting enough - Delaware State holds the distinction of being on the losing end of the worst beatdown in FCS history: 105-0 against Portland State back in 1980.

With two tough games to follow, we need to make a strong statement under the lights on Saturday night.

We all need this game. I'm excited.

classy move: well done LU

https://twitter.com/LibertyFootball

Liberty Football ‏@LibertyFootball · 13h13 hours ago
We are grateful for the opportunity to honor and remember Alison Parker and Adam Ward this Saturday. @WDBJ7

Wasnt sure the right place to post this, but it falls under my excitement for game 1 in Williams Stadium so I will put it here.

With all of the talk about our fanbase and growing up, and the most recent news of Coastal beating us out in a race to the FBS, I wanted to share what Liberty Football means to me. I do this once every other year or so, and its more for me than for you, so thank you for reading.

In 2004 I sat in the stands , as a freshman, with 900 people and watched Ken Karcher lose a game in the 90 degree weather. It was the most miserable experience of my sports life. I grew up going to VAtech games, and I think I even drove to tech that same day for a night game with my dad. Over the next few weeks, I was watching Virginia Tech play on TV, they were consistently ranked in the top 25 and I kept telling folks how dissapointed I was in Liberty's football team. It was a long year , Im not sure we won a game. We hired JB, fired Ken and pulled up that awful carpet. Danny Rocco came to town. I was doing well in school (no reps, and good grades), but several of my friends were leaving Liberty because it wasnt the right fit. My JMU buddies were talking about their parties, a few friends at tech were always going to games as students and tailgating , I had nothing similar to talk about.

Then a freind of mine introduced me to flamefans.com (2005). I started following the programs, I found other people to talk sports with. I adopted Liberty as my team, I quit wearing Virginia Tech Football, or Duke Basketball shirts. I would go to practices and sit in the stands as Rocco gave me the weird stink eye. It became my college idenity. When my JMU and VaTech and even Radford freinds were talking about how awesome their college was, I would tell them about how we just got a transfer DE from UVA that was going to the NFL. As I grew into my fanship the program was growing into a winner.

To make this long post longer, Liberty Football and flamefans are the reason I loved my college experience. I loved the University Mission, convo, campus church, and all that, but sports spoke my language as a college student. I am forever greatful to Jeff and Jerry , Sr and Jr for their vision of having top tier college athletics for LU students to cheer for. TBH I would have transferred, been kicked out, or just had a terrible time at LU if it werent for the sports programs. I then started gettign plugged into several other of the schools ministries.

Lots will change the next 10 years in terms of LU athletics, but I love reflecting back on the last 10 years. Carpet Field, One Cinderblock Press box, Visitors running down the side of a hill to the stadium, not winning any games, its been a wild ride to where we currently are. I really look forward to the season, and think this team can make a deep playoff run. See you at the Bill on Saturday. #GoFlames

Awesome post, R i!

Liberty football is how I heard about Liberty. I'd never heard of the school before I was a student at Coastal and heard they were playing Liberty and decided to go to the game.

R i wrote:Wasnt sure the right place to post this, but it falls under my excitement for game 1 in Williams Stadium so I will put it here.

With all of the talk about our fanbase and growing up, and the most recent news of Coastal beating us out in a race to the FBS, I wanted to share what Liberty Football means to me. I do this once every other year or so, and its more for me than for you, so thank you for reading.

In 2004 I sat in the stands , as a freshman, with 900 people and watched Ken Karcher lose a game in the 90 degree weather. It was the most miserable experience of my sports life. I grew up going to VAtech games, and I think I even drove to tech that same day for a night game with my dad. Over the next few weeks, I was watching Virginia Tech play on TV, they were consistently ranked in the top 25 and I kept telling folks how dissapointed I was in Liberty's football team. It was a long year , Im not sure we won a game. We hired JB, fired Ken and pulled up that awful carpet. Danny Rocco came to town. I was doing well in school (no reps, and good grades), but several of my friends were leaving Liberty because it wasnt the right fit. My JMU buddies were talking about their parties, a few friends at tech were always going to games as students and tailgating , I had nothing similar to talk about.

Then a freind of mine introduced me to flamefans.com (2005). I started following the programs, I found other people to talk sports with. I adopted Liberty as my team, I quit wearing Virginia Tech Football, or Duke Basketball shirts. I would go to practices and sit in the stands as Rocco gave me the weird stink eye. It became my college idenity. When my JMU and VaTech and even Radford freinds were talking about how awesome their college was, I would tell them about how we just got a transfer DE from UVA that was going to the NFL. As I grew into my fanship the program was growing into a winner.

To make this long post longer, Liberty Football and flamefans are the reason I loved my college experience. I loved the University Mission, convo, campus church, and all that, but sports spoke my language as a college student. I am forever greatful to Jeff and Jerry , Sr and Jr for their vision of having top tier college athletics for LU students to cheer for. TBH I would have transferred, been kicked out, or just had a terrible time at LU if it werent for the sports programs. I then started gettign plugged into several other of the schools ministries.

Lots will change the next 10 years in terms of LU athletics, but I love reflecting back on the last 10 years. Carpet Field, One Cinderblock Press box, Visitors running down the side of a hill to the stadium, not winning any games, its been a wild ride to where we currently are. I really look forward to the season, and think this team can make a deep playoff run. See you at the Bill on Saturday. #GoFlames

Very well said. Liberty football from is a high quality operation that we all can be very proud of.

Good post R i ...

Ditto. Great post!

We have come a long way. I was at first game we ever played back in early 70s.

I was also at a game in 2004 and we had a 3rd and long (21 yards), and ran a running play as if it were 3rd and 1.

ballcoach15 wrote:We have come a long way. I was at first game we ever played back in early 70s.

I was also at a game in 2004 and we had a 3rd and long (21 yards), and ran a running play as if it were 3rd and 1.

So it wound up 4th and 20? Hope we punted.

ballcoach15 wrote:We have come a long way. I was at first game we ever played back in early 70s.

I was also at a game in 2004 and we had a 3rd and long (21 yards), and ran a running play as if it were 3rd and 1.

It's called game theory

But we did have 3 really good running backs with Karcher. Dre Barnes was crazy good, and Eugene Goodman backed him up was really fast...and we had Samkon Gado that was change of pace.

The thing that killed me is that Karcher would never put them on the field at the same time. Well, Barnes was hurt half the time...but still...Karcher stuck to that 1 back system...even if it was 3rd and 2 from the 2....we'd have 1 back in there...I wonder where the ball was going.

Our favorite play was the fake handoff to a back that wasn't there!!

Man, it was so empty we played Coastal the last game of the year and put everyone in the home side of the stands, and that was before expansion, there was just one deck.

Good times.

That, and when Hankinson was the head basketball coach and we're at the conference tournament and he says the kids have learned about 75 percent of his defensive system! Classic moments!

I never understood how Sam Gado could play for 6 NFL teams in 5 years, but for Karcher, Gado was LU's third-string running back.

Quick observation from a very small sample of games last night. I think of the 9 games on TV last night, 8 or so of them hit the Under set by Vegas. I really think football is evolving. The defenses are starting to get a little smarter. I think the days of 52-54 shootouts are going by the wayside. This is why I am pumped about the running back stable we have.


Small sample size I know, but its a trend to follow.

great post

I'm still on campus, but I'm starting to age, so excuse me if this proves to be out of touch, but I feel a legitimate buzz around campus about this team. Seems like the student body is really excited after last years playoff run. We will really kind of see during today's convocation, hopefully they have something special to pump up the new students.

Something Special to pump up people has kind of been our gig for the last few seasons. I think its wearing thin.

Season opening uniform combo (per Liberty Equipment Twitter):

Blue Helmet
Blue Jersey
White Pants