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NewsAdvance.com wrote:Bye week gives 23rd-ranked Flames a chance to heal
By Chris Lang
Sports writer
Published: September 17, 2008
Liberty football coach Danny Rocco has generally been a proponent of scheduling the team’s bye week closer to the true mid-point of the season.
But he won’t complain about the timing of the off week in 2008. After beating Western Carolina last Saturday 19-16 in Cullowhee, N.C., the Flames won’t play again until Sept. 27 at Youngstown State.
Liberty (3-0) moved to No. 23 in The Sports Network Top 25 and entered the FCS Coaches Poll at No. 25 this week. By the time last week’s game ended in the Smoky Mountains, the Flames had the look of a team staggering to the finish line of the first part of the season.
And the Roanoke fishwrao runs some old news with some new flavorings added during a week when there is no game to talk about ...
Flames to face WVU, UVa in football
Twice in coach Danny Rocco's three years at Liberty, the Flames have played early-season football games against Division II Glenville (W.Va.) State. Next year, the Flames will be moving up the Mountain State food chain.
Rocco said this week that the Flames will open the 2009 season at West Virginia University.
What's more, Liberty has signed a contract to play at Virginia, Rocco confirmed.
"It could be in 2012," Rocco said. "It may be for two games. We're talking to [Virginia] Tech, too. I think the years for that are 2014 and 2015."
Liberty would be happy to have Rocco as its coach for those games. The Flames improved their record to 3-0 following a come-from-behind, 19-16 victory Saturday at Western Carolina and are No. 23 in The Sports Network Division I-AA Top 25. They cracked that poll last week for the first time since 1997.
One of Liberty's Big South rivals, Coastal Carolina, played at Penn State earlier this season, "but I'd like to stay in the region," said Rocco, who specifically mentioned Tech, UVa, Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina as ideal nonconference opponents.
Rocco, who has a 17-8 record at Liberty, played and coached at Wake Forest and was an assistant at Virginia from 2001-2005. He also coached at Maryland from 1998-1999.
One of Liberty's Big South rivals, Coastal Carolina, played at Penn State earlier this season, "but I'd like to stay in the region," said Rocco, who specifically mentioned Tech, UVa, Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina as ideal nonconference opponents.
The North Carolina game would be an uneasy thing for me...but I would definitely be there.
