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LUconn wrote:Somehow I don't think you want the students involved with that. I can see it now: students with LUnatics painted on their body running through, weaving in an out of the line and just generally annoying the band.
Yeah...that wouldn't work too well...was a thought at least
Liberty Class of 2009
2007 AND 2008 Big South Football Champions
2014 FCS Playoff Qualifier
seems as though the campus paper is rallying the troops as well: an encouraging sign (assuming anyone reads it: and before anyone gets uptight, thats NOT a slam on the paper)
The football season is drawing ever nearer, and in about four months, the new and improved Liberty Flames will take the field, and try to rebound from last season, in which they finished 1-10.
Head Coach Danny Rocco continues to stress that “this is not a rebuilding season.” Rocco may have had no better way to emphasize that than to plan a schedule that he calls “very competitive,” though he does not doubt his team’s ability to keep up with the rigors. Rocco recently released the full schedule for the 2006 season, which is set to begin on August 31, and will feature four Big South Conference games, two of which will be played at home.
The most unusual aspect of the schedule is the appearance of a Division I-A team, Wake Forest, who Liberty will be playing near the middle of the season. The Flames are the only Big South Conference team to take on a Division I-A opponent.
Liberty kicks off the season with a two-game homestand, facing St. Paul’s University on August 31, then following up with a match against Glenville St. on September 9.
The last half of the month (September 16-30) features a three-game road trip, with Liberty facing Towson. In the first away game of the season. Towson won its last contest against Liberty 38-17. The next game will be played against Savannah St., Liberty’s furthest trip of the season, to Savannah, Ga. The road trip finishes up with a visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., in what is likely the toughest game Liberty will play this season, according to Rocco.
Last year, Wake Forest finished with a record of 4-7, going 3-5 in conference play. Rocco said that there were “other options” as far as scheduling more I-A teams, and he did not have doubts about how Liberty’s squad could perform. He said, however, that he based all of his scheduling decisions on one question: “Will it help us compete in the Big South Conference this year?”
A two-week break ensues for Liberty, following their contest against Wake, giving them plenty of time to prepare for Homecoming. The Homecoming game will be played on October 14 against William and Mary, who handed Liberty a particularly disappointing loss last season (56-0).
This begins a two-game homestand that will be concluded against Gardner-Webb, Liberty’s first Big South conference opponent of the season. Gardner-Webb also beat Liberty last season, handing the Flames a 21-16 loss.
From there, Liberty heads to South Carolina for a game against Coastal Carolina, a conference competitor who handed Liberty a loss with a margin of one touchdown, beating the Flames 27-21.
Liberty’s final two home games will be played on November 4 and 11, the first being a non-conference game against Western Carolina, before finishing the home slate against Big South opponent Charleston Southern, who survived the Flames last season, edging them out by the narrowest of margins, 31-30.
Liberty’s final game will be against VMI, in Lexington, Vir. The game against VMI was one of Liberty’s best defensive games last season, as they finished just a field goal short of the Keydets, losing a close one 10-7.
Despite the struggles likely to come this season, Rocco had high praise for this Liberty squad. “I like the guys on this team,” he said. “We have a team that’s very competitive, that plays smart, plays tough, and plays competitively.” The one thing Rocco said he seeks to prove this season is “that we’re for real.”
After a disappointing season in 2005, many people are not taking Liberty seriously. Rocco wants to reverse that negative view by showing that his team is capable of competing, and competing well, without taking time off to rebuild, in the meantime sacrificing all of the older players on the team.
Rocco is very optimistic about the state of his team now. “I think we have certainly enough talent to be successful,” he said.
Liberty plays a spring game to showcase their talent on Saturday, April 29. Rocco hopes to generate enthusiasm about football at the school, and give Liberty another program to be proud of. He said “even if you don’t like football, when you wear that shirt with the school name on it, there’s always that pride (that comes with having a good football team).”
I don't know if anyone noticed the mistake made in the promotional brochure that was sent out and is on the web but the writeup for William and Mary has it this way:"The Tribe narrowly excaping" with a 10 point win in their last visit to Lynchburg on their run to the semifinals in the 1AA playoffs " . That is an incorrect statement. The final score was 38-10 in favor of W & M. According to my math that is a 28 point difference, not 10. We did score 10 points but were beaten by 28. I just wanted to make that clear. I guess the sports information people are not good in math.
Steve V. - Your other bad is that that the brochure was not done or written by the Sports Information Department or Media Relations. The season ticket brochure in the last decade has not been done by the SIDs.
The past two seasons, Bob Good of Development and Kevin Keys of of marketing have combined to put that together and before, I believe Protype did it. That is a marketing and promotions job and Sports Information does not do this.
So don't hit the SIDs up about the math. They didn't do it.
- By JK37
- By Purple Haize