If Liberty plays Montana (@ Montana) in 2012, I am REALLY excited!!!
I have absolutely no affinity for Montana, just that this game would be really close in location for me to attend and travel too. I live in Ogden, Utah so Missoula would only be a couple hours away. I've always hoped that Liberty would also schedule a game some day against Weber State University as well.
I hadn't been following the 2012 LU scheduling much over the past couple weeks - so I was extremely pumped to hear this recent news!!! It can be really hard living so far away from Lynchburg or the east coast sometimes as an Liberty Alum, so this sort of thing is huge to me(!).
When I moved out here to do ministry in 2006, I was on "cloud 9" to see Liberty play locally for three days of basketball at the BYU Classic Tourney in Provo at New Years. I drove 150 miles round trip on each of these three days. I detest BYU, so it was awesome to see Liberty play a very respectable, close back & forth game. At this tourney, all of the out of town Liberty, Seton Hall & Oral Roberts fan's even banded together to attend, support and cheer together whenever their teams played against BYU. So, Liberty had an especially large & loud crowd that night.
If Liberty plays Montana and it is confirmed, I will definately make the road trip to Missoula.