FB: Liberty League

[stlawus]

Not much going in the early days of the offseason, but some pretty significant news for SLU football with the announcement of a $1.5 million gift to endow the head coaching position. https://saintsathletics.com/news/2025/1/28/major-gift-endows-st-lawrence-university-head-football-coach-position-in-memory-of-steve-munn-64.aspx

Uncertain times for the long term financial stability of d3 schools so this is a very good development for SLU athletics.  Should hopefully start paying some dividends now that Puck has security and resources to take the program to the next step.

[Bartman]

Schedules are out. Just over six months to opening for Hobart against Alfred on 9/5 followed by games against Brockport and Utica,all tough games to prepare for opener against the Bombers in Ithaca.

[UfanBill]

Thanks for the heads-up on schedules Bartman. I just checked and Union's 2025 is up too on their football homepage https://unionathletics.com/sports/football/schedule

As I mentioned last fall, it's true...Union opens at Susquehanna on Sept 6th and follows that up at Cortland on Sept 13th.   It can't get much tougher than that. Unfortunately with the addition of Hilbert to the Liberty League and the reciprocal 2 game LL/E8 agreement, Springfield is not on the 2025 schedule. The Garnet host Morrisville in Week #3.

[ICAlum16]

Does anyone know if there have been any FBS or FCS transfers into any of the LL teams? I feel like there are usually a few in any given offseason which I always find interesting. Curious if anyone is up to speed on this.

[Jersey42]

Does anyone know if there have been any FBS or FCS transfers into any of the LL teams? I feel like there are usually a few in any given offseason which I always find interesting. Curious if anyone is up to speed on this.

RPI has been posting their recruits over the past two weeks on X.  I noticed one grad transfer from FCS Penn and one soph D2 transfer from Franklin Pierce.  The first is a defensive lineman and the second is a linebacker. Both are local Capital District kids. Neither saw much playing time at their former schools.

[Jersey42]

Only a few of the LL teams have posted their 2025 schedules.  With publicly available information,  I have tried to piece together the non Liberty League schedules for all 8 teams.  It looks like Buffalo and Hobart will play three Empire 8 teams. I made the assumption that the week one games for those teams will not be one of the official crossover games with the E8.  Here is what I have deciphered.  The missing games for Buffalo and St Lawrence will be against either Hartwick or Fisher.

If anyone has better information, please post.
 

School	OOC	E8 1	E8 2
Buffalo	Brockport		Alfred State
Hilbert	St. Vincent	Alfred State	Hartwick
Hobart	Alfred	Brockport	Utica
Ithaca	Johns Hopkins	Alfred	Cortland
Rochester	Olivet	Morrisville	St. John Fisher
RPI	WPI	Utica	Brockport
St Lawrence	Norwich		Alfred
Union	Susquehanna	Cortland	Morrisville