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A Sea of Red wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 9:17 am Flames play Kentucky Christian Friday afternoon and Trinity Baptist Monday night. Use this thread for both games. Here's the Kentucky Christian game preview:Not surprisingly, Kentucky Christian is really bad. How bad? 1-10 bad with losses to teams like Asbury, Point, and Alice Lloyd. Their win is over historically awful Montreat. Their 1 previous D1 game was a 40 point blowout by Morehead State.
https://www.aseaofred.com/liberty-vs-ke ... n-preview/
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIPLUOrange wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 10:14 am These type games are worthless and almost pointless. IMO, they're just glorified practices, that only serve as ways to get your regulars to work out kinks, rest yoour regulars, and to get your deep bench some minutes. I'd prefer we play an all-D1 schedule, or at least schedule some D2 and local D3's. But I know. I know...Without going into the reasons we play them, I'll just say that personally I enjoy these games as a fan. I have no problem with a blowout, as long as we are the "blow-outer" and not the "blown-out." I think it's fun to see our bench players get some run. In addition, both of these games are against like-minded schools, and provide a bit of cash for programs that are generally strapped for that commodity. It's also an opportunity for their players to have the experience of facing an opponent at a higher level.
oldflame wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 9:41 amThere’s a reason LU doesn’t play Montreat anymore. While historically bad there were a couple of years there they were at least competitiveA Sea of Red wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 9:17 am Flames play Kentucky Christian Friday afternoon and Trinity Baptist Monday night. Use this thread for both games. Here's the Kentucky Christian game preview:Not surprisingly, Kentucky Christian is really bad. How bad? 1-10 bad with losses to teams like Asbury, Point, and Alice Lloyd. Their win is over historically awful Montreat. Their 1 previous D1 game was a 40 point blowout by Morehead State.
https://www.aseaofred.com/liberty-vs-ke ... n-preview/
What is surprising is that KCU's problem is not a lack of size. They start a 7 footer at center, and will actually be as big or bigger than us at every position.
My only game predictions are that Brendan Newton will have his first ever double digit scoring game and Darius McGhee will get a dunk.
chris leedlelee wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 6:34 pm Why the 10 pm game for Trinity Baptist? Special event for students?SGA requested a gimmick game and Ritchie being as great as he is let them have it.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 9:22 pm I believe we are first team in the nation to reach 9-0 this seasonProbably so. Playing 3 games in 3 days in the Bahamas gave us a head start over the other undefeated teams.
LUOrange wrote: ↑November 29th, 2019, 10:14 am These type games are worthless and almost pointless. IMO, they're just glorified practices, that only serve as ways to get your regulars to work out kinks, rest yoour regulars, and to get your deep bench some minutes. I'd prefer we play an all-D1 schedule, or at least schedule some D2 and local D3's. But I know. I know...Like you, we all know the reasons, but I too would prefer we at least play Lynchburg, Randolph, Hampden-Sydney, Roanoke, Averett, etc... over far-flung sub D-Is if we're not going to play an all D-I schedule.
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
rogers3 wrote: ↑November 30th, 2019, 3:16 pm What are the reasons? I am missing the nonverbal cues!The reason for playing non-DIs to begin with is because many of the major programs see us as a "bad loss," if they lose. Thus, it'll be incredibly difficult to get middle-of-the-pack P5/Big East/A10 programs to schedule us. The second reason is, since this whole quadrant thing started, playing the worst of the DIs actually brings our strength of schedule down more than just playing a sub-DI school like Jones University of Southwest Arkansas, the Little Sisters of the Poor, Blind and Deaf, Joe's Trucking School or Raphael's School of Cosmetology. The reason we can't get local non-DIs on the schedule is because they prefer to play at far-flung destinations for their guarantee games, plus some of the presidents of local schools NOT named U. of Lynchburg have animosity towards Liberty.
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.
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