Category: Liberty Flames
Big South Announces Largest-Ever Football TV Package
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) - The Big South Conference today announced that it will have its largest football TV package ever in 2010, as a League-record eight Conference games will be televised this upcoming season. Overall, the Big South will appear on television during 10 of the 12 weeks this season, including the final three weeks of the Conference campaign.
- 616 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's Edwards Retires as FSN Radio Broadcaster
For the first time in nearly three decades, followers of Liberty Athletics will hear a new voice on the radio airwaves next year, as longtime play-by-play broadcaster Jerry Edwards has announced his retirement from the Flames Sports Network.
“Words cannot express the deep appreciation and gratitude we have for what Jerry Edwards has done for Liberty Athletics,” said Jeff Barber, Liberty University Director of Athletics. “He has been a pioneer for our program and his tireless contributions will never be forgotten.”
Big South’s automatic playoff berth gives LU more incentive in spring workouts
After each practice during Danny Rocco’s tenure at Liberty, the team breaks the huddle with the words, “Big South champs!”
For the first time, though, that chant will have added meaning. As the Flames open spring practice late this afternoon at Williams Stadium, they’ll begin their pursuit for what has been an elusive FCS playoff berth.
Liberty to Open Spring Practice Tomorrow
Work around Williams Stadium in preparation for the 2010 football season opener has been underway since last November, but training on the field will start to take place, tomorrow afternoon, when Liberty opens its spring practice schedule.
Former Assistant Returns to Liberty Staff
Head Football Coach Danny Rocco has brought a familiar face back to the program, as Rocco has announced the addition of H.T. Kinney to his coaching staff. Kinney is the lone new addition to Rocco’s coaching staff for the upcoming 2010 season.
Liberty AD Named to NCAA FCS Committee
Liberty Director of Athletics Jeff Barber was recently named to the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee and Football Issues Committee. His four-year term will begin on Sept, 1, 2010 and continue through Sept. 1, 2014.
Barber is one of three newcomers to the eight-member committee, which is charged with filling out the annual NCAA FCS Playoff field.
Liberty's Jennings Helps Raise Money for Haiti Relief
Former Flames All-American and current Jacksonville Jaguars running back Rashad Jennings will be signing autographs on Saturday at B&C Sports Cards and Collectibles in a coordinated effort to help raise money for the Haiti relief efforts.
COSIDA's Academic All-America® Team Announced
FCS represented with 17 student-athletes
Repeat selections on the 24-member ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Football University Division first team include junior running back Kyle Minett of South Dakota State, senior defensive lineman Brandon Wingeier of Dayton, and senior defensive back Beau Hadley of Weber State.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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