[Cider Jim]

No offense to Chris Lang of the N&A, but from this C-ville newspaper article (from Friday), it sounds like Ausberry is already in Lynchburg and will be in class on Monday. It's a shame this confirmation did not make our local paper, though N&A's Andy Bitter did speculate about this potentially happening in Friday's paper, but nothing about it in Saturday's edition.

For the 2007 football season, Rocco's LU Flames will have 2 offensive linemen (Ausberry & Eddie Pinigis) starting for us who played together as starters on UVa's OL in 2005--now that's impressive, flame fans!

Jay Jenkins from the daily progress in c-ville sheds some more light!!!!

Pair of Cavaliers decide to transfer
Ausberry enrolled at Liberty; Best looking at Liberty, Temple, Rutgers

By Jay Jenkins / jjenkins@dailyprogress.com
January 19, 2007

Weeks before the 2006 season started, Virginia offensive lineman Marshal Ausberry spoke openly of his goals for the months that awaited.

Sure, Ausberry wanted to play as much as he could for the Cavaliers, but his priority was to secure his diploma.

While the playing time never materialized like it had when he started 11 games in ’05 under former offensive line coach Ron Prince, Ausberry completed the requirements for his degree in sociology in December.

Having reached his No. 1 goal, Ausberry elected to look elsewhere to finish his final season of eligibility. Ausberry, who played in 27 games for UVa, has already enrolled as a graduate student at Liberty University.

“He is already down there,” his mother, Robyn, confirmed on Thursday.

Ausberry played in 10 games this season, most of which came on special teams, after rising senior Ian-Yates Cunningham took over the starting duties at right guard, the position Ausberry manned in ’05.

Ausberry may have some company playing for Liberty coach Danny Rocco, a former assistant at Virginia...

[SuperJon]

He's no better than any other player. Keep the talk in the other thread.

[Chris Lang]

His father says one thing, his mother says another and neither Andy nor Jay was able to get hold of Marshal to get confirmation straight from him. That's why nothing more has been written. Rocco cannot comment, per NCAA rules, until the kid officially starts class and all the paperwork goes through compliance.

[Cider Jim]

Thanks for the clarification, Chris. So I guess we'll have a definite answer in the N&A after classes begin on Monday?

[Sly Fox]

If the compliance office gives him clearance.

[Rocketfan]

Thanks for the clarification, Chris. So I guess we'll have a definite answer in the N&A after classes begin on Monday?

New guy all of a sudden cracking the whip??? Whether we find out in 10 hours or 10 days, football season is a bit of a ways away.....we got nothing but time.

[Cider Jim]

You would think if a 6'5" 323 pound guy was walking around campus buying grad school books that somebody would have spotted him, especially if he were wearing a new LU football hoodie or something.

[El Scorcho]

...we got nothing but time.

And it's killing me!

[SuperJon]

You would think if a 6'5" 323 pound guy was walking around campus buying grad school books that somebody would have spotted him, especially if he were wearing a new LU football hoodie or something.

How many of us go to North on a regular basis though?

[PAmedic]

whats the date on the Spring game again?

only about 13 weeks, by my rough count.

[SuperJon]

We had it late last year. It'll probably be earlier this year.

[Chris Lang]

April 21

[PAmedic]

thanks Chris, thats about what I had it pegged it. That makes it 13 weeks

[SuperJon]

That long? Holy crap. I was hoping it was earlier.

[LU'sbestmanager]

i think that is the same day as VA tech. i think he had it late last year to avoid that.

[Libertine]

i think that is the same day as VA tech. i think he had it late last year to avoid that.

It was late last year to give the team more time to learn the schemes before we hit the field.

[Sly Fox]

With Chris' and the Richmond posts int he other thread, I thought I'd bring the Roanoke version here since it didn't offer any other nuggets on moving forward other than Vince playing some TE:

Flames land another ex-Cav
Offensive lineman Marshal Ausberry decides he will use his last season of eligibility with Division I-AA Liberty.

By Doug Doughty
981-3129

There was more activity Monday on the football pipeline between the University of Virginia and Liberty.

Offensive lineman Marshal Ausberry, who started 11 games for the Cavs during their Music City Bowl season of 2005, enrolled at Liberty in time to start second-semester classes Monday.

Flames coach Danny Rocco said Ausberry was able to gain a degree from Virginia in 312 years but has one season of eligibility remaining after redshirting at UVa in 2003.

He can play immediately at Liberty because he is making a drop in classification from Division I-A to I-AA.

"We're tickled to death," Rocco said. "We're getting him when he really should be at his best."

Ausberry becomes the third ex-Virginia player to join Rocco, a former Cavaliers assistant. Eddie Pinigis, Ausberry's one-time linemate at UVa, was a second-team All-Big South offensive tackle for the Flames last season.

Former Virginia defensive end Vince Redd was enrolled at Liberty last fall. He will not play for the Flames until next season, when Rocco envisions him getting some playing time as a tight end alongside his former Cavalier teammates on the offensive line.

Ausberry was listed as Virginia's No. 2 right guard last season after Ian-Yates Cunningham won the starting job in the preseason. Ausberry played sparingly and, with the anticipated return of UVa's five starting offensive linemen, represented an insurance policy for 2007.

"If that's what he was, he was a good one," Rocco said. "I'm sure [UVa coach] Al [Groh] didn't want to lose him."

Rocco said he didn't pursue Ausberry until he received a fax that released Ausberry from his letter-of-intent. Returning to Virginia was not a consideration when Ausberry picked Liberty over James Madison, his father's alma mater, last weekend.

"I would never want to be in position where I was competing with Virginia for one of its players," said Rocco, who indicated that he spoke to Groh five times over the Christmas holidays. "This is nothing that I ever could have counted on."

The difference between Ausberry and the earlier transfers is that Redd and Pinigis both enrolled on the eve of fall classes, Redd after being dismissed from Virginia's team and Pinigis after being dropped to the second team at his position.

Unlike Pinigis, Ausberry (6-foot-5, 314 pounds) will have the benefit of spring and fall practice.

"I never thought that it would be a possibility in January," Rocco said. "There was a class or a grade that was pending. We didn't know that he would graduate in the fall."

Neither Groh nor Ausberry could be reached for comment.

http://www.roanoke.com/sports/uvafootball/wb/101285

[Cider Jim]

Flames coach Danny Rocco said Ausberry was able to gain a degree from Virginia in 312 years

That's got to be one OLD offensive lineman.

[LUconn]

ha, that's a quality typo

[PAmedic]

Flames coach Danny Rocco said Ausberry was able to gain a degree from Virginia in 312 years

That's got to be one OLD offensive lineman.

yeah- heard he played opposite Methuselah on the other side