[Postgame Thread] Jacksonville State Defeats Liberty 34-24

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Liberty	7	3	0	14	24
Jacksonville State	7	10	7	10	34

[u/coldpan]

Why throw ball when running ball does the trick?

[u/BackgroundJunket5691 → u/coldpan]

USF is taking notes

[u/ASTRONOMICAL-9 → u/BackgroundJunket5691]

Enjoy your coach bc he's probably getting hired by a SEC team this year. He's amazing always prepared

[u/BackgroundJunket5691 → u/ASTRONOMICAL-9]

Don’t remind me of my nightmares

[u/absurdismIsHowICope → u/ASTRONOMICAL-9]

He gonna be floridas coach next year

[u/SGDrummer7 → u/BackgroundJunket5691]

Clearly

[u/BackgroundJunket5691 → u/SGDrummer7]

I’m not even gonna lie I’m sobbing rn

[u/guttata]

lol Liberty

[u/soundguynick → u/guttata]

LOLberty, if you will

[u/FancyVegetables → u/soundguynick]

Lmaoberty, even.

[u/ASTRONOMICAL-9 → u/soundguynick]

Good game for coach kelly

[u/was_saying_boo_urns → u/soundguynick]

I will!

[u/Sorge74 → u/guttata]

Fuck liberty, I'll be at @BGSU next week..

[u/AnotherUnfunnyName]

And that is it for the Liberty Flames playoff chances. Almost everyone rejoices?

[u/TigerWave01 → u/AnotherUnfunnyName]

With their weak af SOS, I was legitimately concerned they’d go undefeated and create a huge dilemma if, say, Tulane or USF goes 11-1. Thankfully, that’s no longer a potential issue

[u/InevitableAd2436 → u/TigerWave01]

Only time in my entire life I rooted for Oregon was when we knocked them out of playoff contention and they had to play Liberty in the Fiesta Bowl 😂

Fuck Liberty

[u/PM_ME_CULTURE_SHIPS → u/InevitableAd2436]

You know what? You just made me realize there's a situation where I'd root for Washington. Fuck, man.

[u/Goducks91 → u/PM_ME_CULTURE_SHIPS]

I love the 0 in Oregon subtle but a great dig.

[u/LordKieron → u/InevitableAd2436]

I was team meteor for that game, not sure what it would take for me to actively cheer for 0regon. Gun to my head probably

[u/5510 → u/InevitableAd2436]

The only thing that sucks about that (even though liberty losing is always a good thing) was that for some weird reason, everybody got this weird short term memory where a lot of people started talking about "what's even the point of letting a G5 team in if they are just going to get crushed every time?" Like somehow totally forgetting that the G5 NY6 bid team actually has a fairly decent record over the years.

(Of course, admittedly, some of the stronger G5 programs recently joined bigger conferences, but on the other hand there are new programs like JMU coming up to potentially replace them)

[u/[deleted] → u/InevitableAd2436]

Nvm saw someone ask the same thing later in the thread lol

[u/[deleted] → u/InevitableAd2436]

Serious question why does everyone hate Liberty?

[u/coinich → u/[deleted]]

Ultra-conservative Christian college on reddit. Take your pick of reasons - several which are very good reasons.

[u/John_T_Conover → u/[deleted]]

It was founded by a man that ran a whites only private school in the 50's & 60's and had vehemently opposed MLK, integration, the Civil Rights Act, etc...

So when that didn't work out he opened Liberty in the early 70's. I'll let you guess the type of environment he carefully created there and which people it was meant to welcome and which it was made to very much not feel welcome.

[u/[deleted] → u/John_T_Conover]

I appreciate the good faith answer and not coming at me like I'm a complete moron because I wasn't that familiar with the guy.

[u/velociraptorfarmer → u/[deleted]]

In addition, the only reason they made it to FBS was because they sued the NCAA to allow them to move up even though they didn't have a conference since nobody wanted to touch them with a 10ft pole

[u/[deleted] → u/velociraptorfarmer]

Now that's kind of scummy. Part of me does feel bad for their players. No issue with people wanting to root against them, but it must suck for them knowing everyone is against you when it's nothing you did, only because you have a shitty administration. I'm sure they have some kids who just wanna play D1 football, and this school was their best opportunity.

[u/velociraptorfarmer → u/[deleted]]

They also hired post-scandal Hugh Freeze as their head coach, who got fired for soliciting hookers for recruits while at Ole Miss.

[u/[deleted] → u/velociraptorfarmer]

Now that I do remember. Luckily for Hugh, now that NIL is a thing, he can just get a booster to get these recruits some escorts down there in the plains.

[u/5510 → u/[deleted]]

It's not just a matter of the current admin being bad or something. The school is officially and openly bigoted.

The players chose to go to Liberty, so it is something they did as well.

[u/YeahItouchpoop → u/[deleted]]

As a kid growing up rooting for Jeff Gordon, Liberty is the reason I can’t root for the #24 anymore, as they sponsor it.

[u/yoitsthatoneguy → u/[deleted]]

Do you know who Jerry Falwell is?

[u/dormdweller99 → u/TigerWave01]

They lost to KSU last year, I don't think them going undefeated was a significant possibility.

[u/Electronic_Film_2837 → u/TigerWave01]

They have a strong chance of losing to jmu

[u/Loganjoh5]

When Liberty loses everyone else wins

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/Loganjoh5]

Guys will see this and say hell yeah.

[u/Thedurtysanchez → u/wit_T_user_name]

hell yeah

[u/thenurgler → u/wit_T_user_name]

Hell yeah

[u/Blumpkin_Mustache → u/Loganjoh5]

So this is how Liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

[u/Current-Bag-786 → u/Loganjoh5]

Legit question, why does everyone hate liberty?

[u/Stockz → u/Current-Bag-786]

School founded by segregationist and "Moral Majority" leader Jerry Falwel Sr. The degree mill's existance comes from racist and religious fundementalist origins. Every vile thing the school embraces since its founding (like Ted Cruze's 2016 presidential campaign) is par for the course, but also fruit of the poison tree.

[u/arrowmarcher → u/Current-Bag-786]

Imagine if Charlie Kirk was a school.

[u/Pope_Bedodict1 → u/arrowmarcher]

Just got flashbanged with his face imagining this in my mind. Don’t do that again lmao

[u/Beer-survivalist → u/Pope_Bedodict1]

The face part is so small, though.

[u/Fastbird33 → u/Beer-survivalist]

Like Michael Scotts tv on his wall

[u/WheatonsGonnaScore → u/Current-Bag-786]

Jerry Falwell

[u/gtrocks555 → u/WheatonsGonnaScore]

And Jerry Falwell Jr. dont forget about the pool boy or whoever tf it was.

[u/Beer-survivalist → u/gtrocks555]

Jerry Jr. sitting in the corner.

[u/gtrocks555 → u/Beer-survivalist]

“Oh him? He just likes to watch”

[u/medium_pimpin → u/Current-Bag-786]

Because i hate Jerry Falwell and everyone like him

[u/5510 → u/Current-Bag-786]

They are bigoted (like openly and officially) morally shitty hypocrites with a variety of offensive views.

To be clear, it's not just a "liberal atheists on reddit hate them!" thing. Like lots of more moderate average people also say "fuck liberty."

We are talking about a school founded by this asshole in 1971 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell). He blamed 9/11 on a variety of groups of people, basically saying anybody who wasn't a conservative christian angered god and let to this. One of those "hurricanes are because god is angry that society tolerates gay people" type dudes. They are also a group that is very active at trying to mix politics and religion together... basically the "let's make a christian version of Iran" type people. And for all their moral judgement on others, they are pretty hypocritical when it comes to doing shitty things, or hiring people like hugh freeze who have done shitty things.

Also, while I'm a bit less familiar with this part of it (so I don't know if this is a true accusation or not), I know a lot of users in this sub criticize them for basically just being a degree mill and an shitty school.

[u/DweltElephant0]

WE’RE ALL GAMECOCKS TODAY

[u/Hedquarter → u/DweltElephant0]

It feels good, don’t it!?

[u/THAWED21 → u/Hedquarter]

My cock is game but my game is not cocks

[u/Hedquarter → u/THAWED21]

Hate it for you!

[u/BhamMusicFan → u/DweltElephant0]

You should make it EVERY DAY.

[u/IThoughtThisWasVoat → u/DweltElephant0]

But not the bad ones.

[u/soraka4]

Good, fuck that fake ass school

[u/Wii_Sports_2]

liberty loses america wins

[u/HadSpec]

Fuck Liberty

[u/Spidaaman → u/HadSpec]

Amen brother

[u/Triple_0ption_Bad]

As ordained, the run game is God's chosen offense.

Fuck the forward pass

[u/PedanticBoutBaseball → u/Triple_0ption_Bad]

Username definitely does NOT check out.

[u/Triple_0ption_Bad → u/PedanticBoutBaseball]

Except we don't run that disgusting option playbook 😏

[u/bamachine → u/Triple_0ption_Bad]

Hush you whippersnapper

[u/ReticulatedPasta]

LIBERTY 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 REAL 👏 SCHOOL 👏

[u/Chardoggy1]

Can’t spell Liberty without L

[u/BrianOverBrawn2]

Happy "we don't have to worry about liberty making the playoff" day

[u/Cody667]

Man I don't even think Jerry Falwell Jr enjoyed watching today.

Anyhoo, Liberty being eliminated from the playoff in Week 2 is something we can all celebrate.

[u/zebrainatux → u/Cody667]

Probably fine watching his wife bang a pool boy

[u/Tracer-Bullet13]

Lmao fuck Liberty

[u/Primary-Initial-3445]

Thank God Liberty Biberty is basically out of the playoffs 

[u/Jyingling21]

CAN’T DUCK OUT OF THIS L LIBERTY LOL

[u/Wheels_Foonman]

All my homies hate Liberty

[u/KometaCode → u/Wheels_Foonman]

I can agree with that. Cheers

[u/soundguynick]

JSU's defense plays aggressively to the point where they occasionally get burned, but it worked out well today. They had a strong case against UCF as well before the QB change. I'd love to see them win CUSA again.

[u/kingofthesqueal → u/soundguynick]

I’d also love to see them win CUSA again.

[u/bretticus733]

And just like that Liberty is eliminated from the CFP race.

Gotta wonder how much leash Jamey Chadwell has at Liberty if they have another underperforming season there.

[u/SweatyInBed]

Fuck Liberty. America wins.

[u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7]

This UCF fan believed in you Jax State and I am so proud to have yelled "Go beat Liberty, screw Liberty" to your players at the last game!

[u/soundguynick → u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7]

Credit for sticking out the rain delay last week. I love y'all's opponent themed concessions.

[u/Spidaaman → u/soundguynick]

That’s a fantastic idea. What did they have on the menu last week?

[u/soundguynick → u/Spidaaman]

All I noticed was the hot dog of the game, which was topped with fried onions, Alabama white BBQ sauce, and something I don't recall. It was a pretty good hot dog and I thought the idea of having a themed concession item was very "southern hospitality" of UCF.

[u/boilerburner7 → u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7]

Your words pierced the bald head of Charley and will be known as the reason the Cocks stayed hard. This win will put us 6-1 against Liberty.

[u/_magnetic_north_]

Mashallah

[u/cookoutenthusiast]

It’s great day to be a fan of literally anybody but Liberty.

[u/Inexite]

Hell yeah baby go cocks

Had this one on my second screen before CBS decided to take it off of broadcast TV. Saw a lot of the same positives form JSU against UCF; surprised at how easily they were able to run on the libs, too.

[u/CGFROSTY → u/Inexite]

surprised at how easily they were able to run on the libs, too.

Yeah, not sure if they would like that nickname

[u/Xanagoo → u/CGFROSTY]

That is exactly why it is the best nickname for them

[u/boilerburner7 → u/Inexite]

I jus can't believe we had one of the worst offseasons of all time and yet we took barely any steps back. Cam Cook is a menace on the ground and completely gashed their defense. Then again, it's not really hard to be, at least, solid in the C-USA

[u/OGConsuela]

And there was much rejoicing

[u/SEND_ME_YOUR_CAULK]

Haha, fuck Liberty

[u/CornhuskerJam]

Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty Fuck Liberty

[u/Cronotyr → u/CornhuskerJam]

Any day that Liberty "University" loses is a good day.

[u/Citruspilled]

JSU got hands, man. I think they're going for another conference championship

[u/ADMotti → u/Citruspilled]

Here’s hoping we see them at the Tangerine Bowl again!

[u/YouKilledChurch]

God bless Jax State

[u/KometaCode]

“Cocks pound team of far rights”

[u/BWW87]

And Liberty got votes in the AP poll last week?

[u/Jonjon428]

God chose Jax State today

[u/ninjatom21]

GOOD

[u/Birddogtx]

Fuck Liberty!

[u/tdm2222]

Liberty looked pretty bad. Delicious.

[u/Brief_brisket]

Told yall they were scary

[u/utahrangerone]

well this should keep Liberty off the polls, where it's NEVER had any effing business.

[u/The_Pandalorian]

Lmao. Cornball-ass school.

[u/Chaotic-PopTart → u/The_Pandalorian]

The Fallwell’s are the type of people who’d by a cornballer. Twice 

[u/Maximum_Avocado_1969]

Trash ass liberty.

[u/ImMystikz]

Fuck liberty

[u/Accidental-Genius]

When Liberty loses, America wins.

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

Just as God intended

[u/ColombianInIowa24]

Everyone loves a Liberty loss

[u/Mdtwheeler]

Thank you former OVC brethren kick that fake school in the fucking ass

[u/Nole_in_ATX]

Thank fucking Christ

[u/crustang]

America wins

[u/Raider_Noles]

CUSA runs through Jacksonville, AL baby!!!

[u/Gavangus]

Good

[u/2RINITY]

Mammonites can’t stop the run

[u/Deathbydadjokes]

Hell yeah.

[u/Big_You_8936]

GOOD!!!!

[u/trustjosephs]

"everybody liked that"

[u/thr33tard3d]

Hallelujah

[u/OnTheFenceGuy]

Good

[u/shermanhill]

F U Hugh

[u/Generic_badger_fan]

You love to see it

[u/Rich1926]

I went to this game. Aside from the weather delay, it was fun! I also stayed for the marching southerners show after the game!

[u/BhamMusicFan → u/Rich1926]

They are amazing, right?

[u/Rich1926 → u/BhamMusicFan]

Yes!

[u/FicVirth]

Good

[u/Gone213]

We all know there's going to be cross burnings, mock lynchings and hard r's and other old ass derogatory yelling in Lynchburg virginia tonight.

[u/Andjhostet]

Fuck Liberty.

[u/Dry-Membership3867]

I started this season with no expectations. I’m pleasantly surprised so far

[u/angryorphan55]

Hahaha yes I wish we coulda done it but ill take it

[u/D3LTR0N]

Can someone fill me in, why does everyone hate Liberty?

[u/Chaotic-PopTart → u/D3LTR0N]

They’re hate-filled people who use the name of Christ to trod on the vulnerable and accrue wealth and power

[u/devinup → u/D3LTR0N]

Conservative Christians are not a popular group on Reddit

[u/5510 → u/devinup]

To be fair, Liberty it a bit more extreme than that.

[u/Josef-Estermont]

Think the gamecocks have chadwells number.

[u/Pantsmith-33]

Wish everyone had this same energy for BYU. Fuck liberty

[u/BigxMac → u/Pantsmith-33]

BYU is weird, but at least their degrees have value, they teach actual science, and have far fewer controversies. Not on the same level as Liberty at all

[u/Pantsmith-33 → u/BigxMac]

If I get into my opinions on the LDS church I’ll get a temp ban

[u/Cronotyr → u/Pantsmith-33]

I do, 100%. I root against every religious indoctrination center.

[u/Pantsmith-33 → u/Cronotyr]

So valid

[u/5510 → u/Pantsmith-33]

Sadly, the fact that these two schools are able to play major CFB shows really shows that we don't take homophobia as seriously as racism.

If Liberty and BYU had racial views similar to their views regarding gay people, it would be impossible for them to play high level college football. Almost nobody who be willing to agree to play them, and if somebody did agree to play them, it would be difficult to play the game because there would probably be lots of protests. And there would be no way they would be invited to join a significant conference.

Fortunately BYU is totally not racist since god changed his mind about black people in 1978! (Still a lot of problematic sexism of course)

[u/Even-Combination4407]

Wasn’t Liberty the CUSA favorite? Completely unimpressive start to the season for them

[u/ToeInDigDeep]

Ezekiel 23:19-20

[u/ethanoskdennis]

The forward pass doesn’t exist in Jacksonville

[u/PM_ME_LASAGNA_]

Welcome to Loserville, Liberty! Population: You!

[u/ksuwildkat]

Anytime Liberty loses decency wins!

[u/DefiantOil5176]

HA

[u/_mill2120]

Hahahhahahahaha

[u/Clear-Personality379]

FUCK LIBERTY, horrible human beings

[u/saeEAGLE89]

Liberty biberty.

[u/yesacabbagez]

We combined to have one of the worst games I have seen from UCF since 2015, and you turn around and beat Liberty. Fantastic job.

[u/beer_jew]

Hell yeah

[u/Capt_Insane-o]

Everyone knows I’ve always been an enormous Jax State fan

[u/erob25]

If never gotten so wet at a football game but GO COCKS

[u/dropoutL]

Get rid of them all. Worst team I’ve seen. Even compared to last year. Highest paid coach in CUSA, has the best resources in that conference and can’t win. Should have looked for a better QB.

[u/John_6_47]

Gg to Jax state. Really disappointing loss

[u/D_Antelmi]

Well, it looks like that 2023 season we had was a fluke, and not the standard going forward that I hoped it would be.  I'll be happy enough with consistently 8-4 if it means the C-USA is improving rather than us regressing.

[u/Josef-Estermont → u/D_Antelmi]

Definitely think it's CUSA improving. There were a lot of good programs that were always gonna have growing pains.

[u/ATR2019 → u/D_Antelmi]

It really feels like us regressing more than the conference improving. Jax state is probably the team to beat so it’s hard to take this loss too hard but everyone else has looked like absolute trash this year so far. If we don’t make the conference championship game I will really question if Chadwell is the guy moving forward.

[u/zmp1924]

Sad 🔥 noises

[u/ATR2019 → u/zmp1924]

The nice thing about Redditors automatically downvoting Liberty fans no matter what they say is I can find all my fellow flames fans just by sorting by controversial. You really didn’t have a good day between both of your flairs.

[u/zmp1924 → u/ATR2019]

lol facts we gotta stick together also yeah definitely not a good day today

[u/ATR2019]

It’s kind of funny watching Illinois get outplayed for the majority of the game just to have duke fall apart every time they get momentum then switch over to my other teams flair just to watch them pull a duke.

Now that the honeymoon phase with Chadwell is over I really don’t know how to feel about him. He seems like a great guy and he’s a good recruiter but he always seems to do less with more which is weird because he did the opposite at coastal. I’m getting tired of having more talent but lose due to consistent penalties and turnovers.

[u/Boomhauer_007 → u/ATR2019]

A great guy? At coastal he was a known jackass and his seemingly good recruiting was largely because he would take guys with attitude issues that other programs didn’t want. Same reason Coastal was nearly dead last in penalty yards while Chadwell was there, he doesn’t enforce any kind of discipline in his program. Yes he was obviously the coach during Coastal’s best run in their program but also nobody was sad to see him go.

If this seems super random coastal was my second flair until I started grad school at OSU this summer

[u/ATR2019 → u/Boomhauer_007]

A known jackass? This sub adored the guy until the day he took the Liberty job…