Category: Liberty Flames
Liberty Jumps in Front Early, Goes on to Bury Presbyterian
It was an odd scene Saturday evening. As Liberty finished a 55-19 thrashing of winless Presbyterian, avenging the loss from last season that cost the Flames a berth in the FCS playoffs, the crowd at Williams Stadium looked much like the one that shows up Friday nights for LCA games.
With 2:55 left in the second quarter, SirChauncey Holloway bounded in from four yards out to put the Flames up 28-3. A light drizzle began to fall, and the stadium emptied. Announced attendance was 14,197. But by the time the second half started, there were maybe 1,000 folks left in the stands.
“I turned to Todd (Wetmore, Liberty’s director of athletic communications), and said, ‘it’s a mass exodus,’” Liberty coach Danny Rocco said. “I don’t know if it was that it had started to pour, but I was a little taken aback by that.”
Big South Announces Additional Television Coverage for Football
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference today announced additional television coverage of its football games during the 2009 season, beginning with Saturday’s showdown between No. 6 James Madison and No. 24 Liberty. Meanwhile, Saturday’s JMU-Liberty matchup also will be the national FCS Game of the Week on all-sports radio station WCKY-AM 1360 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WPDE/WWMB-TV in Conway/Myrtle Beach will simulcast six Big South football games live, while the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will simulcast two games and tape delay two others. JCTV, a division of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), will tape delay five Liberty football broadcasts airing on the Flames Sports Network.
- 382 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose No. 24 Liberty U. Big Test for Lafayette
Leopards, coming off opening win over Georgetown, will have little room for error.
If Frank Tavani and his Lafayette football team were in even a little hot water Saturday night in Washington, D.C., that was nothing compared to the Flames that will engulf the Leopards this week.
‘’That won’t be good enough,'’ Tavani said of the Leopards’ 28-3 Patriot League victory over Georgetown.
That comment came at Lafayette’s weekly media luncheon Tuesday. He said pretty much the same thing immediately after the game, and while he never mentioned any names then, it was pretty clear what he was saying: Lafayette will have to be a different team if it expects to win its home opener against the nationally ranked Liberty University Flames at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Around FCS: Big South looking for playoff respect
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Eight months might have passed when the Big South Conference gathered for its annual football media event on the final day of July, but the coaches of this fledgling Football Championship Subdivision league were still bristling about how its 2008 champion, Liberty had been left out of the playoffs.
“There is no way that Liberty should have been left out of the playoffs,” said Gardner-Webb’s Steve Patton, the dean of Big South coaches, who echoed the sentiment of almost. “Everyone said that Elon was in with a win and Liberty goes and dominates them and gets left out. How can you tell me that was fair?”
- 1824 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Big South Announces 2009 TV Package
The Big South Conference today announced its football TV package for the 2009 campaign, and the League will appear on television during nine of the 12 weeks this season. The TV slate features two games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), as well as one broadcast on SportSouth. In addition, Big South members will appear on the BIG EAST Network and CBS College Sports this season, while Liberty University’s Flames Television Network will broadcast five home games involving the Flames. Additional telecasts may be added to the overall schedule at a later date.
- 487 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Liberty Favorite to win Big South and Preseason All-Conference Team Announced
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – For the third consecutive season, Liberty University has been tabbed as the favorite in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason football poll for the 2009 campaign, as voted by the League’s head coaches and media panel and announced today as part of the 2009 Big South Conference Football Kickoff Media Luncheon at the Renaissance Suites Hotel in Charlotte, N.C..
The two-time defending champion Flames enter the 2009 campaign with a Big South-record 11-game Conference win streak. Liberty, which was ranked in the Top 15 in the final national polls a year ago, was a perfect 5-0 in Big South play last year and is 24-10 overall in three seasons under head coach Danny Rocco. The Flames return 49 letterwinners and 12 starters in 2009, and received 10 of the 17 first-place votes cast and 109 total points to repeat as champions this season.
- 1389 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Liberty Captures Second-Straight Sasser Cup
For the second year in a row and the seventh time in the last 12 athletics seasons, Liberty has captured the Big South’s George F. “Buddy” Sasser Cup, an award given annually to the top performing athletics department in the conference during each academic year.
Additionally, Liberty also won the Men’s All-Sport Trophy for the third-consecutive year and the fourth time since the award was established six years ago.
Top College Level Isn’t the Only Source for NFL Talent in Virginia
Ten players from Virginia schools were selected in the 2009 NFL draft. Only half were Hoos or Hokies.
From colleges other than Virginia and Virginia Tech, the NFL’s 256-player harvest included: a third-rounder from William and Mary (CB Derek Cox); a fourth-rounder from the University of Richmond (DE Lawrence Sidbury); a fourth-rounder from Saint Paul’s (CB Greg Toler); a sixth-rounder from Norfolk State (CB Don Carey); and a seventh-rounder from Liberty (RB Rashad Jennings).
Liberty's Jennings Selected By Jaguars In NFL Draft
Rashad Jennings became the first Liberty Flames football player taken in the NFL Draft in nearly two decades, as the running back was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Sunday afternoon, in the seventh round of the collegiate player draft.
Jennings, who was the 250th overall selection in the draft, was the first of two seventh-round picks by the Jaguars and one of nine overall players taken by Jacksonville during the two-day selection event.
- 670 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, FCS In The Pros Who Will Be the Next Joe Flacco?
Few casual football fans knew who Johnny Knox was until February.
That’s when Knox ran his 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine, posting a 4.34. Immediately, most football fanatics, especially those with teams that could use his blazing speed, had some homework to do.
“I knew all I had to do was go out there and run fast and everything else would work out,” said Knox, who caught 121 passes for 2,227 yards and 30 touchdowns in his two seasons at Abilene Christian, a Division II program in Texas.
Scouting the draft: Liberty's Rashad Jennings
With the NFL Draft slated for April 25-26, this is the 23rd of our daily looks at a player who could be on the New England Patriots’ radar. All profiles can also be found at projo.com/patriots.
Player: Rashad Jennings, Liberty
- 268 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, FCS In The Pros First-Half Surge Pushes Liberty Offense over Defense
Liberty’s white-jerseyed offensive players used a strong first-half showing to post a 42-25 victory over the Flames’ blue-clad defenders, ending Liberty’s spring practice slate with the annual spring game, Saturday afternoon, at Williams Stadium.
Activities Surrounding Liberty's Spring Game Announced
After three and half weeks of practice, the Flames are set to wrap up their spring football workouts when Liberty hosts its annual spring game on Saturday. The game is free of charge and kickoff is set for 1 p.m., culminating a full slate of pregame festivities around Williams Stadium.
NFL Network: Draft Small School Prospects
Featuring Jackson State’s Domonique Johnson, Liberty’s Rashad Jennings, Richmond’s Lawrence Sidbury Jr., Cal Poly’s Ramses Barden, Nicholls State’s Ladarius Webb and Norfolk State’s Don Carey.
Liberty RB Rashad Jennings: 2007/8 Highlight Video
Brock Smith has NFL Dreams
Former Hershey star coming off sparkling career as Liberty QB.
Under the circumstances, Brock Smith’s workout at Liberty University’s Pro Day in early March went very well in front of a handful of NFL scouts.
Now, the waiting, anticipation and anxiousness begin for the former Hershey High School quarterback.
Will Smith be drafted? Or will he try his lot as an undrafted free agent?
Smith will get some of his answers April 25-26 at the NFL Draft in New York City.
Liberty to Open Spring Practice
Liberty’s 2009 opener against FBS powerhouse West Virginia might still be more than five months away, but the Flames will begin preparing for that matchup and the other 10 contests on their upcoming schedule when spring practice opens tomorrow, under the lights at Williams Stadium.
Another ex-Gamecock to transfer to Liberty
There could be an ex-Gamecock passing tandem this fall at Liberty University.
Receiver Freddie Brown plans to transfer to the Football Championship Subdivision school in Lynchburg, Va., which announced Brown’s move Friday. Brown joins Tommy Beecher, who started USC’s season opener last season before transferring after the season.
Liberty Announces Coaching Additions/Changes
Three-time Big South Coach of the Year Danny Rocco has announced his 2009 coaching staff, which includes five returning staff members to go along with four fresh faces on the sidelines for the Flames.
South Carolina Quarterback Set to Join Liberty
Liberty Head Football Coach Danny Rocco has announced that former Gamecocks’ quarterback Tommy Beecher has signed a scholarship with Liberty and will join the Flames after graduating from South Carolina in May, pending an NCAA waiver.
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