The Liberty University athletic staff and student-athletes had a great deal to celebrate at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of their spacious new Indoor Football Practice Facility in August. The $29 million, 95,000-square-foot structure represents not only a substantial recruitment tool and a commitment to the success of the Lynchburg, Va.-based university football program, but the next step in a two-year proposal to reclassify Liberty University as a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team — joining the ranks of the NCAA’s top-tier of competition.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am,” said Liberty University President Jerry Falwell. “It hasn’t been too many years ago that the FBS seemed like something that would happen in the next generation and an indoor football practice facility was something that we would only dream about. I thought it would be a long time coming, so to see it actually being finished this quickly is beyond exciting. It’s really going to take our football program to another level.”