A Sea Of Red

Liberty Announces Men's Basketball Alumni Reunion


Men's Alumni Reunion is set for December 2.
November 16, 2006
Lynchburg, Va.
All LU Men's Basketball Alumni, former coaches and support personnel are invited to the inaugural Alumni Reunion on Saturday, December 2, when the Flames face East Carolina. The event will begin with a complimentary pre-game dinner at 5:30 on the Vines Center concourse, with tip-off scheduled for 7:00 against East Carolina.

All alumni who pre-register will receive complimentary reserved tickets for the game and a Blue Lot parking pass, and will be recognized during halftime. As a special bonus, the jersey of Karl Hess, the school's all-time leading scorer, will be retired that evening.

Please RSVP to Bob Good, Flames Club Director at 434-582-2178 or rgood@liberty.edu to confirm your attendance for the Men’s Basketball Alumni Reunion, and to let him know how many will be in your party. Upon your RSVP, we will provide you with the following:
• Complimentary admission to the Men’s Basketball Alumni Reunion Dinner for you and your family
• Complimentary tickets to the basketball game against East Carolina for you and your family
• A Reserved Blue Lot parking pass
• A campus map and recommended hotel information

These are exciting times at Liberty University and, if it has been some time since you have been here, you won’t believe your eyes when you visit this campus! It is our hope that you will permit us to honor you as part of our LU Men’s Basketball heritage and join us on December 2.

Please be sure and share this announcement with your fellow Men’s Basketball Alumni and ask them to contact us and be a part of this exciting reunion event.


Contact Bob Good at 434-582-2178 or rgood@liberty.edu with any questions.

This is long over due. I hope Alston is right behind him. I think Hess wore 10 and so did Alston. Hess also wore 11 so I don't know which number is going up. I hope some more of our guys come out for this. I will be there of course.

Its a nice honor and it throws a bone to the LBC generation that they are not forgotten. Cool.

Wonder if he has a game that nite?

Scar
Whats his relationship like with LU has the fence been fixed.

finally hess gets his due. congrats to him, and kudos to the athletic dept for doing this.

tshirtman wrote:Scar
Whats his relationship like with LU has the fence been fixed.

I am not sure Tshirt. I would say that if he agreed to come that some sort of healing has begun. He has come back millions of times though to work practices and to share with the team all of the points of emphasis for the upcoming season from an officials perspective. I am glad they are doing this and Haize, he is coming up from Durham at half time of the Duke UNCG game Yes I would say that he is off that night.

It would be nice if his old coach could come back to share in the moment

I'm glad to see him getting some love. I was wondering why he, or Alston haven't had thier jersey retired. Seems like they had a good enough of a career to do so.

Dunton is the one who wanted to retire Hess' jersey. He is doing some nice things to involve the alumni.

A few people have suggested we "retire" jersey's of certain players, so it wasn't really a Dunton original thought. USUALLY when a jersey is retired if the coach he played for in available, they are invited to participate. Hopefully there will be a video tribute from his former coach. BUT I doubt he has been asked.

Is JM being asked back to the Alumni dinner? I saw they were asking all former coaches, players, etc. I haven't looked, but I suspect just by coincidence he probably has a game that night. Is there some tension between he and RD?

Last season when we did a tribute to Dr. Jerry Edwards for his 25 years of broadcasting service, Coach Meyer send a greeting via video. He could do something like that again if he is not available. I have not talked to him in a while. I may send him a text message to see if he even knows about it.

Is there anywhere online to see the records from pasts years? I was at LU from 02-06, but I have no idea what we did in the early 90's except for 94. If we were so successful, why did Meyer leave?

Go to the media guide online. It has the whole history of the program. www.libertyflames.com You may even see a couple of shots of your boy SCAR wearing the short shorts and sportin the Philly fade haircut from back in the day

Before he went bald.

The next time I am on the air I will get an extreme closeup of my head so you guys can see hair on the top and sides and back of my head. It will be revealing but make for lousy TV

I ate dinner with you last night and still NO hair!!!!!!!

givemethemic wrote:I ate dinner with you last night and still NO hair!!!!!!!

I know you are not talking son. I have seen your biological father Thanks for paying for dinner too man that was a nice gesture. I will have to get Mrs SCAR to make you some more cookies. Actually I am down in Tampa right now with 3 bins full!

O that's just great... I am at work!!!!! Go to love it, then I am off to the Bing tomorrow, hope your thanksgiving is going good

LU retires Hess' number

By Chris Lang
Lynchburg News & Advance
December 2, 2006

Karl Hess has plenty of pleasant memories from his playing time at Liberty.

As a senior in 1980, he captained a Flames team to 28 wins and a NCCAA championship game win over Point Loma. But he has trouble forgetting what could have been on a December night in Blacksburg.

The Flames, who were years from competing in NCAA Division I basketball, hung tough with Virginia Tech before losing 101-88.

"I won't talk about the refereeing," Hess said Saturday night, moments after having his No. 11 jersey retired at halftime of LU's game against East Carolina. "We probably should have won that one."

That's funny talk from coming from a man who makes a second career out of officiating college basketball games.

Hess, who lives in Forest, had a quick turnaround after working Saturday's Kentucky-North Carolina game in Chapel Hill. He works between three and six games a week, officiating in SEC, ACC and Big East games.

At halftime, Hess stood at center court with LU athletics director Jeff Barber as the P.A. announcer ticked off his career accomplishments.

Hess holds Liberty's career scoring record with 2,373 points. He's No. 1 in school history in field goals (951) and field goal attempts (1,798). He's also first In free throws (471) and free-throw percentage (89.9). He's also the all-time career assist leader with 648.

Hess holds the relationships he made at Liberty in as high regard as his career numbers. He fondly recalled sharing a dorm with several high-profile athletes, including former major leaguers Sid Bream and Lee Guetterman, current LU baseball coach Matt Royer and current Liberty wrestling coach Jesse Castro.

"Winning a small college championship was fun," Hess said.

"But the relationships with the people, those were just as fun."

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excellent job by LU in this ceremony. hopefully the school will step up and continue retiring jerseys in honoe of former great LU athletes.