A Sea Of Red

Not a pretty sight.
http://www.cstv.com/tsx/current/m-baskbl/libe.html


LIBERTY Team Report

By The Sports Xchange
1/16/2007

GETTING INSIDE

Unless the Flames start having some success in a hurry, coach Randy Dunton's future is going to be coming into question more and more.

But Jeff Barber, the school's athletics director, says nothing will be discussed until after the season ends. Barber thinks that's only fair since he wasn't hired until January 2006 and wants to be able to observe the program for a full year.

What he's seeing right now isn't pretty to watch. The Flames have no commitment on defense, rely too much on Larry Blair to score and haven't successfully integrated talented transfer Dwight Brewington into the lineup.

Before the Flames played Winthrop, Dunton admitted adding Brewington to the starting lineup wrecked the chemistry that led to a 6-1 start. Now he's got to figure out how to use Brewington, an athletic 6-5 wingman.

But what Dunton has to recover most of all is his team's toughness. The Flames didn't show much in the loss to Winthrop or in a road loss at Asheville.

NOTES, QUOTES

--The Big South scheduling process didn't help the Flames in early conference play. For some reason, the conference scheduled Radford, Liberty's biggest rival, as its home conference opener. The league had Winthrop coming to Lynchburg in the second game. Both were played while students were on semester break. Crowds were pitiful, and the Flames had no home-court advantage.

--The Flames' road losing streak has reached 19 games. They haven't won on the road since Feb. 23, 2005 at UNC Asheville. They lost at Asheville in the conference opener this year.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "That was an old-fashioned heinie whipping." -- Coach Randy Dunton after being thumped 68-40 by Winthrop at home.

STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL

Dwight Brewington missed the Radford win with a wrist injury. With him in the starting five, the Flames lost eight straight games.

PLAYER ROTATION: Usual starters -- F Alex McLean, F Rell Porter, G Anthony Smith, G Damien Hubbard, G Larry Blair. Key Subs -- G Dwight Brewington, G Justin Holland, G B.J. Jenkins, C Russell Monroe, F Tyler Baker.

GAME REVIEW:

Liberty 80, Radford 66

Winthrop 68, Liberty 40

GAME PREVIEW:

at High Point, Jan. 17

at Coastal Carolina, Jan. 20

at Charleston Southern, Jan. 22

KEYS: What to do with Dwight Brewington. He's a talent, but he doesn't mix well with Anthony Smith and Larry Blair in the starting lineup. He could be coming off the bench the rest of the year.

ROSTER REPORT:

Larry Blair, through the Winthrop game, had 205 career 3-pointers, 20 shy of Larry Jackson's school record. His 608 attempts are already a school record.

Now that it appears Dwight Brewington will be coming off the bench, the Flames at least have some firepower in reserve. With him in the starting lineup, the best scorer off the bench was guard B.J. Jenkins at 5.8 points per game. Brewington is averaging 15.

Anthony Smith, through the Winthrop game, is 42 points shy of 500 for his career.

Previous Report: 01/09/2007

Looks like we had somebody lurking on here recently based on that report. Consider yoruselves resources.

Just read the Article, and its Sad, it really is

I just discovered that DirecTV carries CSTV (don't know how long, but I just was able to recieve it)

now that I have the channel enabled, any likelihood LU related programming will be on there?

I'm watching the ECU head MBB coach now on the "Ricky Stokes Show"

found this from another thread posted last March (by me )

http://www.flamefans.info/forums/viewto ... light=cstv

The inaugural season of “Big South On The Edge” originated from a different Big South member institution each week and was hosted by “Voice of the Big South” Matt Hogue. In addition to highlighting the respective women’s basketball program, the show featured the head coach, Big South student-athletes’ leadership initiatives, an array of human-interest pieces, as well as a weekly review and preview in women’s basketball. The show aired weekly in each Big South market on the affiliates listed below, with Thursdays as the first-run date for new shows. The entire first season has been video archived and is available on the Conference’s website, www.BigSouthSports.com.

CSTV (College Sports Television)
Saturdays, 9:00am ET

GMTM/SCAR/FSN- is this still current programming?

CSTV...
...just became active on the basic package. It is part of DirecTv's new agreement signed with CBS and the exclusive rights to cover the out-of-area NCAA March Madness games.

ROCK ON.

(and I'm not behind the times! well, with THIS anyway)

I've had it with DN for a while now and it's got good stuff on occasionally. I was watching Charlotte play last night and I couldn't help but think to myself, Has Timmy Scar ever tried to get a job with CSTV? The color guy was terrible. He sounded all hyper and his voice was incredably annoying.

They had college volleyball on for like 3 months straight and a few debate specials. They just do a speacial on one tournament every year and LU only got one mention and it was because the Havard team they were following beat them.

Scar's working his angles wherever possible. And I agree that most of the CSTV crews are pretty atrocious. They have a WWE wrestler who does play-by-play for football that has to be the worst caller I've ever heard.

CSTV has contracts with a number of leagues like CUSA. We have UH and Rice on their all the time as a result in addition to Texas Southern & Prairie View due to their SWAC contract.

I have had some conversations with CSTV but not too much on my behalf. They wanted to carry our FTN games but I got tired of doing leg work for free so I didn’t pursue it. That was during my 1st season at FTN. I plan on getting with Pete Gillen after the season and working through his contacts to get my demo in the right hands. I need some more TV work esp in CAA, CUSA and A-10 since I know some of the coaches in those leagues.

Sly Fox wrote:Scar's working his angles wherever possible. And I agree that most of the CSTV crews are pretty atrocious. They have a WWE wrestler who does play-by-play for football that has to be the worst caller I've ever heard.

CSTV has contracts with a number of leagues like CUSA. We have UH and Rice on their all the time as a result in addition to Texas Southern & Prairie View due to their SWAC contract.

isn't it a WWE announcer that does the calling for some of the games, Coachmen or something...he is NOT a wrestler...

You may be right. I know he was with WWE and somebody said he used to wrestle. All I know is that he was horrendous and he did a number of Southland & SWAC games down our way in football.