Well sports fans, its been just over 4 months since the Liberty Flames completed the best season in school history (as far as wins) with a 26-3 domination of the Elon Phoenix (ranked #10 in the country at the time), finished with one of the highest end of year rankings in school history, but were still denied a spot in the 2008 FCS playoffs (which would be won by Richmond so belated congratulations to them).
Well Thursday night at 7:20 PM the 2009 Liberty Flames will begin their spring practice season. Let's look at what is gone:
2008 Big South Player of the Year Rashad Jennings (a projected first day draft pick according to many prognosticators)
2008 All-conference first team QB Brock Smith
2008 All-conference first team WR AND first team PR AND second team KR Dominic Bolden
2008 All-Conference first team OL Mike Godsil
2008 All-Conference first team OL Britt Stone
2008 All-Conference first team LB Nick Hursky
2008 All-Conference first team DB Kent Hicks
2008 All-Conference first team LS Dan Pope
2008 All-Conference second team WR Jonathan Crawford
2008 All-Conference second team TE Corey Rasberry
2008 All-Conference second team DL Kevin Richard
2008 All-Conference second team DL Colin Dugan
2008 All-Conference second team DB Ryan Greiser
2008 All-Conference second team DB Patrick Calvary
That's an awful lot of very good players but there are plenty who have been waiting in teh wings and now they get their chance starting Thursday night. Here is the workout schedule (Got this from FlameFans, a Liberty University athletics message board http://www.flamefans.com):
March 26 - Thursday - 7:20pm
March 27 - Friday - 4:15pm
March 28 - Saturday - 10:20am
March 31 - Tuesday - 7:20pm
April 2 - Thursday - 7:20pm
April 3 - Friday - 4:15pm
April 4 - Saturday - 10:20am
April 7 - Tuesday - 7:20pm
April 9 - Thursday - 7:20pm
April 10 - Friday - 4:15pm
April 11 - Saturday - 10:20am
April 14 - Tuesday - 7:20pm
April 16 - Thursday - 7:20pm
April 17 - Friday - 4:15pm
April 18 - Saturday - 1:00pm - Spring Game
Hope to have updates on practice as I get out to Williams Stadium over the next few weeks.
Fan the Flames
(FTF side note: Congrats to Mike and Brock on their recent weddings...may God bless them both in this new stage of life)
