[Sly Fox]

Flames Face Leopards

posted 8:13 pm Tue October 14, 2008
reporter: Dennis Carter posted by: Webteam

Lynchburg, VA - Liberty Flames coach Danny Rocco expects this week's opponent, 4-and-1 Lafayette, to be the best team the Flames have faced so far. The Flames are 6-and-0 and coming off their first shutout of the season, Saturday's 33-0 blanking of Stony Brook. The Leopards have done something the Flames have never done. Lafayette has advanced to the playoffs three of the last four years.

Danny Rocco, Liberty Flames Head Coach - "Their defense is ranked number one in the country in scoring defense. They just don't give up very many easy plays and they make it hard for you to move the ball and score points."

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[Sly Fox]

Leopards in 'bowl-type atmosphere' Saturday

Categories: College Football
Posted by Paul Reinhard at 9:57:11 PM on October 14, 2008

The Big South Conference has only six members for football – Liberty, Coastal Carolina, Gardner-Webb, Charleston Southern, Stony Brook and VMI – and it does not receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) postseason tournament.

So, in order to get the attention of the tournament committee, a Big South team must make lots of noise on the field.

“As I told our kids, they don’t just want to beat us; they want to beat us by 40 or 50 points so that in the event we would be in the Patriot League hunt and in a situation where we could get a No. 2 (invitation), they would be screaming for an at-large berth,” Lafayette Coach Frank Tavani said Tuesday.

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[bigsmooth]

very complimentary article. the word is out about our fan base which is awesome. hopefully we will send the leopards home with a loss.

[Kolzilla41]

Our fan better show up this weekend because even Rocco was wondering where they were

[Sly Fox]

Liberty notebook

By Chris Lang
Sports writer
Published: October 14, 2008

Danny Rocco’s buzzwords for Liberty’s game against Stony Book last week were hunger and humility.
He’ll have the same message for his team this week when it suits up against Lafayette at Williams Stadium. Actually, the words could be played on repeat for every week for the rest of the season.
The reality for the Flames is simple. Any loss of focus could be disastrous for Liberty. A loss before the season finale against Elon will eliminate Liberty from any FCS playoff conversation. Liberty’s out of conference schedule continues to take a beating, as the Flames’ two Division I opponents — Youngstown State and Western Carolina — are now a combined 4-10.

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[badger74]

Just outside the Lafayette campus is one of the best hot dog joints in the US. Jimmy's

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overvie ... RefID=2010

[Schfourteenteen]

Just outside the Lafayette campus is one of the best hot dog joints in the US. Jimmy's

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overvie ... RefID=2010

TRUE!!!!!!!!!

My parents used to take me to the cinema once a month n wed always get Jimmy's dogs - although thats on 25th Street exit. Are you talking about Jimmy's on the Delaware? Havent tried there yet

[Iwasneverhere]

Just outside the Lafayette campus is one of the best hot dog joints in the US. Jimmy's

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overvie ... RefID=2010

TRUE!!!!!!!!!

My parents used to take me to the cinema once a month n wed always get Jimmy's dogs - although thats on 25th Street exit. Are you talking about Jimmy's on the Delaware? Havent tried there yet

Did you just call it the Cinema? not the movies? I'm guessing thats a northern thing?

[Schfourteenteen]

I think the name of it is the 25th st cinema. Thats all. No we call it the movies

[Iwasneverhere]

ok just checking. I understand now.

[LCA&LU Mom Original]

Lafayette (4-1) at No. 14 Liberty (6-0), 3:30 p.m.

The inaugural meeting between Liberty and Lafayette will be an important one, as both the Flames and the Mountain Hawks try to position themselves for the postseason with a rare mid season out-of-conference battle.

For Liberty, a win over Lafayette would further strengthen a playoff resume for a Flame team whose league (the Big South) doesn't have the luxury of having an automatic bid.

http://statistics.ncaafootball.com/merg ... id=4185493

LU by 4. but what the?? who are the Mountain Hawks?

[Schfourteenteen]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That guy needs to be fired, ASAP.

The Mountain Hawks are from Lehigh University, Lafayette's rival

[LCA&LU Mom Original]

oh, gotcha. i thought maybe it was some kind of regional slang for a Leopard. ya know, like some ppl call a groundhog a gopher or a whistle pig. but i just couldn't figure out how a Leopard could be a Mountain Hawk. maybe the poor guy just had a senior moment.

i do bet that the Lafayette Leopards will LOVE being called Mountain Hawks, though. hehe

[Kolzilla41]

Perhaps some chanting fodder for the student side?

[jcmanson]

Under head coach Frank Tavani, the Leopards are 0-27 when allowing 30 or more points to an opponent.

[BJWilliams]

THis lends itself well to what I said about LU scoring 30 or more points in 5 of 6 wins this year and 15 of 17 games the last two years (the only two losses when scoring 30 or more were to W&M and Toledo, both last year)

[Iwasneverhere]

THis lends itself well to what I said about LU scoring 30 or more points in 5 of 6 wins this year and 15 of 17 games teh last two years (the only two losses when scoring 30 or more were to W&M and Toledo, both last year)

you are a GMTM machine today.

[SuperJon]

It's not just today. There is at least one "teh" in every one of his posts.

[BJWilliams]

I tend to type fairly quick and when I do "teh" is one of the things that always comes out. I try to fix them when I see them though.

[ToTheLeft]

Someone set us up teh bomb.

You have no chance to survive make your time.

[Sly Fox]

LU Facing Tough Lafayette

posted 11:38 pm Thu October 16, 2008
reporter: Dennis Carter posted by: Webteam

Here's the best of DC tonight ...

Liberty's 11-game winning streak dating back to last season is the longest in the nation and the longest in school history. Danny Rocco, Third-year Liberty Flames Coach - "We do talk about it. It is something that our guys are certainly aware of, you know we're in the middle of something really special, you know maybe something that could be extraordinary. So can we keep it up?"

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[bigsmooth]

i alwyas wonderd about the "teh"

[BJWilliams]

lol thanks...anyway I think if we can get off to the start like we did against Stony Brook this one might be over early...as I said before LU has scored 30 or more in 15 of the last 17.


Now here is an interesting little trivia question...When was the last time LU scored at least 30 points in a game AT HOME and lost? (Hint: Youre gonna have to go into the ol wayback machine for this one)

[SuperJon]

Now here is an interesting little trivia question...When was the last time LU scored at least 30 points in a game AT HOME and lost? (Hint: Youre gonna have to go into the ol wayback machine for this one)

JMU, 1991, 35-34

[BJWilliams]

I figured youd be Johnny on the spot with this one SJ. November 2, 1991 is the exact date (42 games in a row if Im not mistaken)