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The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 4th, 2016, 4:55 pm
by BJWilliams
If my understanding of the NCAA calendar is correct, with LU opening in Blacksburg one month from yesterday (crazy huh?), their training camp window opens soon...(if I read the Football Twitter account they said Camp opens on the 8th

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 4th, 2016, 5:09 pm
by A Sea of Red
Practice starts Monday

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 4th, 2016, 8:12 pm
by BJWilliams
Thanks...I think their window opens this weekend but I did see practice starts on Monday

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 7th, 2016, 3:05 pm
by BJWilliams
Players report today!

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 8th, 2016, 2:19 pm
by ballcoach15
According to Facebook, first practice is in the books.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 8th, 2016, 3:06 pm
by A Sea of Red

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 8th, 2016, 4:07 pm
by Sly Fox
Well done, Jon. I also watched a bit of Mike Tilley's Facebook Live during the warmups. I am loving all of the additional coverage we have these days in addition ot the fine work of the SIDs and the fishwrap.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 8th, 2016, 4:25 pm
by A Sea of Red
Photo gallery from day 1 of training camp

http://www.libertyflamesnation.com/trai ... gallery-1/

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 8th, 2016, 4:46 pm
by Chris Lang
I feel like we've been hearing about Lucas Irons for around four years now.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 12:08 am
by rtb72
Masha and Macon look like beasts! Great pics! Really get you excited for the season....

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 8:29 am
by ballcoach15
Is Virginia Tech the "biggest" opponent LU has ever played ?

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 8:38 am
by Purple Haize
ballcoach15 wrote:Is Virginia Tech the "biggest" opponent LU has ever played ?
No. WVU.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 8:45 am
by LUnpretty11
Purple Haize wrote:
ballcoach15 wrote:Is Virginia Tech the "biggest" opponent LU has ever played ?
No. WVU.
Who?

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 8:55 am
by youngflamer
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016 3:22 pm
By JOHN O’CONNOR Richmond Times-Dispatch
The University of Richmond, William & Mary and James Madison shared the CAA Football championship last season. This season, the Spiders are the state team to beat, according to the STATS FCS national preseason poll released Monday .
Richmond is ranked No. 4 nationally.
The Spiders, tabbed as the CAA favorite in the league’s preseason poll, return 15 starters from a team that went 10-4 and advanced to the FCS semifinals.
Too bad Richmond's coach, Danny Rocco, isn't still at LU. He got tired of Jeff Barber's antics so he moved to Richmond and look what he is doing there. Barber is the one who needs to go so we can keep good coaches.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 9:02 am
by Jonathan Carone
youngflamer wrote:He got tired of Jeff Barber's antics so he moved to Richmond
Yeah that didn't happen.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 9:05 am
by Purple Haize
Jonathan Carone wrote:
youngflamer wrote:He got tired of Jeff Barber's antics so he moved to Richmond
Yeah that didn't happen.
We are almost getting to the point we need to put a Rocco Rule in like we do for other former coaches. Ha

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 10:47 am
by thepostman
I love how history is rewritten by those with an agenda.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 11:15 am
by Cider Jim
Purple Haize wrote:
ballcoach15 wrote:Is Virginia Tech the "biggest" opponent LU has ever played ?
No. WVU.
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

Aren't you forgetting the famous 1999 game in Huntington, which was Chad Pennington's last year before he had a long career with the Jets?
Marshall 66, Liberty 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Mars ... tball_team

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 11:22 am
by Purple Haize
Cider Jim wrote:
Purple Haize wrote:
ballcoach15 wrote:Is Virginia Tech the "biggest" opponent LU has ever played ?
No. WVU.
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

Aren't you forgetting the famous 1999 game in Huntington, which was Chad Pennington's last year before he had a long career with the Jets?
Marshall 66, Liberty 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Mars ... tball_team
Biggest name. Not biggest beat down. The Mountaineers are gracious hosts.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 9th, 2016, 11:26 am
by Purple Haize
thepostman wrote:I love how history is rewritten by those with an agenda.
I know, right?!

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Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 10th, 2016, 2:59 pm
by jack_sparrow81
Our biggest beatdowns from what I can remember was playing UCF & USF in back to back weeks I believe in 2001 or 2002. Both scores were 65-0.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 10th, 2016, 3:48 pm
by Chris Lang
The UConn-YSU-W&M stretch in '05 was pretty frightful. 59-0, 42-0, 56-0 in consecutive weeks. My first year on the beat. Woof.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 10th, 2016, 6:07 pm
by BJWilliams
That was a horrific stretch to be sure Lang...it pretty much destroyed the team mentally...

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 11th, 2016, 9:49 am
by youngflamer
Jonathan Carone wrote:
youngflamer wrote:He got tired of Jeff Barber's antics so he moved to Richmond
Yeah that didn't happen.
Ask Rocco and/or the real estate agent who sold his house here. You may know some things but you're not all knowing.

Re: The Road to Playoffs 2016 begins...

Posted: August 11th, 2016, 10:41 am
by thepostman
Regardless of how it did or did not go down it was best for everybody involved for him to move on.