- February 25th, 2008, 1:23 am
#158942
If there is one thing I am just absolutely annoyed with, its the fact that just about every discussion, particularly on the Men's Basketball forum, ends up degenerating into people with issues with our prior basketball coach and with our current AD on one side, and people trying to keep this discussion about supporting LU athletics and the current administration on the other.
When I came to Liberty in August of 2002, I came looking forward to 4 years (well actually now 6) of enjoying great LU sports. When I joined the Fire House (and later Flame Fans), I was looking forward to talking about LU sports and the trials and travails of various seasons, and celebrating our victories when they came. What I have seen in the last year is absolutely loathsome behavior on the part of some people on this board (you know who you are) on both sides of this. Whatever has happened, be it good or bad, it is now in the past. We have plenty to look ahead to right now. We have a new basketball coach who is showing himself to be a classy individual. We have a new baseball coach that this weekend showed that he could do amazing things with and for our baseball program. We have a softball program that, even with a rough start this weekend, has a lot of youth and could do amazing things this year. We have an athletic director, who, even with his flaws (which is pretty much par for the course since everybody has flaws), has done what he believes is necessary to help LU become a very good athletic program. We also have a track team that is going this weekend upcoming and has a chance to sweep the conference, and a coach who has been around since many of the older fellows here were students, and before a number of us younger guys were even thought of by our parents.
How about instead of spending all this undue energy going back and forth like a bunch of kids on the playground, we set aside our differences. take whatever opinions we may have to a more private setting, and strap on our red and blue and support the school we love. Im certainly going to...who's in?
When I came to Liberty in August of 2002, I came looking forward to 4 years (well actually now 6) of enjoying great LU sports. When I joined the Fire House (and later Flame Fans), I was looking forward to talking about LU sports and the trials and travails of various seasons, and celebrating our victories when they came. What I have seen in the last year is absolutely loathsome behavior on the part of some people on this board (you know who you are) on both sides of this. Whatever has happened, be it good or bad, it is now in the past. We have plenty to look ahead to right now. We have a new basketball coach who is showing himself to be a classy individual. We have a new baseball coach that this weekend showed that he could do amazing things with and for our baseball program. We have a softball program that, even with a rough start this weekend, has a lot of youth and could do amazing things this year. We have an athletic director, who, even with his flaws (which is pretty much par for the course since everybody has flaws), has done what he believes is necessary to help LU become a very good athletic program. We also have a track team that is going this weekend upcoming and has a chance to sweep the conference, and a coach who has been around since many of the older fellows here were students, and before a number of us younger guys were even thought of by our parents.
How about instead of spending all this undue energy going back and forth like a bunch of kids on the playground, we set aside our differences. take whatever opinions we may have to a more private setting, and strap on our red and blue and support the school we love. Im certainly going to...who's in?
Liberty Class of 2009
2007 AND 2008 Big South Football Champions
2014 FCS Playoff Qualifier

2007 AND 2008 Big South Football Champions
2014 FCS Playoff Qualifier






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