[Sly Fox]

From Chris in the fishwrap ...

Bannister the catalyst to Flames' new identity

By Chris Lang
clang@newsadvance.com
December 4, 2007

Niagara basketball coach Joe Mihalich is one of the few who can judge the difference between last year's Liberty basketball team and this year's Flames' club from afar.

The Purple Eagles beat the Randy Dunton-led Flames in February in an ESPN BracketBusters game in New York and lost to the Ritchie McKay-led Flames last Saturday in Lynchburg. There are obvious differences between the teams. The Big South's all-time leading scorer, Larry Blair, is gone from the Liberty roster, as is dynamic wing Dwight Brewington.

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[thesportscritic]

just read this story. nice read

[Fumblerooskies]

Good stuff.

[checkmate]

good analysis by the beat writer

[Fumblerooskies]

The money line...

But Mihalich noticed another key difference between the clubs.

"It's clearly a different team," Mihalich said. "They have an identity. They have guys who clearly understand their roles. And they've got the point guard who is an assist man."

This year's coach has done a great job in getting the players to understand there roles and accept them...

[Cider Jim]

And I guess we have RD thank for bringing Teejay to LU. Thanks, Randy.

[LUconn]

hey, you stop that.

[thepostman]

And I guess we have RD thank for bringing Teejay to LU. Thanks, Randy.

I know this is a joke...and i even smiled a bit...but these are the things that keeps this stupid RD debate going...his supporters won't go away if we keep cracking jokes about him

[ToTheLeft]

RD invented the internet.

[DeathCab4LU]

RD invented the internet.

[DeathCab4LU]

This is a great article

[WWJFD]

And I guess we have RD thank for bringing Teejay to LU. Thanks, Randy.

No, it would be the assistant coach on the LU women's team, we all can thank for that.

[Cider Jim]

And I guess we have RD thank for bringing Teejay to LU. Thanks, Randy.

No, it would be the assistant coach on the LU women's team, we all can thank for that.

Coach Sherard, we thank YOU.

[WWJFD]

And I guess we have RD thank for bringing Teejay to LU. Thanks, Randy.

No, it would be the assistant coach on the LU women's team, we all can thank for that.

Coach Sherard, we thank YOU.

Some work out and some don't....Brew comes to mind...

Sherard had known TJ from his coaching days at UVA.

[Cider Jim]

But since RD hired Sherard, we have RD to thank, at least indirectly.

[LUconn]

I hope you all get whooping cough.

[WWJFD]

I hope you all get whooping cough.

[Cider Jim]

Now that you mention it, my throat is feeling kind of scratchy.

[TDDance234]

[Schfourteenteen]

Yes lets continue our discussion about people who believe they can foor for one team's sport and not the other, like VT Football and Duke Basketball. I think theyre stupid

[FlamingYalieWahoo]

Actually somewhere in there you have to thank Craig Littlepage - AD at UVA for firing Pete Gillen (a mistake in my humble opinion - just wait til Singletary a Gillen era recruit is gone and you'll see what Leitao is capable of) which I believe resulted in that coach whose now with the women's team ending up at LU.

[jcmanson]

Actually somewhere in there you have to thank Craig Littlepage - AD at UVA for firing Pete Gillen (a mistake in my humble opinion - just wait til Singletary a Gillen era recruit is gone and you'll see what Leitao is capable of) which I believe resulted in that coach whose now with the women's team ending up at LU.

Umm, are you joking? Leitao has that program headed in the right direction. Yes, Singletary has helped greatly, but have you even seen his 2 recruiting classes already at UVa? And do you know who he has committed for next year? Probably not.

Gillen got UVa into the big dance once in his 6 years there. Leitao's been there two years, and already in the big dance once. Without a very dissapointing season this year, he will be back in the dance this year.

I would say Littlepage made the right choice.

[Fumblerooskies]

Yes lets continue our discussion about people who believe they can foor for one team's sport and not the other, like VT Football and Duke Basketball. I think theyre stupid

Hey...I resemble that remark!

[FlamingYalieWahoo]

As a UVA fan who reads the Daily Progress and does know who is on the team and is coming (I don't have their names memorized), I wish I were kidding but I don't think Leitao has what it takes to coach in the ACC. I like Pete a lot and I'm not sure what happened to the program during his time and I agree it was time for a change. But I don't think L. was the man for the job. But back to TeeJay - thank God for all those firing and hirings (and his mother and father for having him) which resulted in his ending up at LU.

[LUconn]

You won't have to deal with him for too long. After Calhoun retires, Uconn will take him off your hands.