2016 Football Opponent Preview: SMU
9/15/2016 12:00:00 AM | Football
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The Flames will take to the road for the second time in 2016, traveling to Dallas, Texas, to face the Mustangs of SMU on Saturday at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.
Saturday's contest will be the first between to the two programs and be Liberty's last in a string of first-time opponents for the Flames to open the season.
Mustang Connections
• Liberty Head Coach Turner Gill served as an assistant coach at SMU under Tom Rossley during the 1991 season.
• Liberty NG DeCarlo Hamilton and SMU DB Darrion Millines both went to American Heritage High School in Plantation, Fla.
• Liberty S Solomon McGinty and SMU DB Rashaad Burton were teammates at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas in 2014.
• Three members of Liberty's coaching staff originally hail from Texas, including: head coach Turner Gill (Fort Worth), co-defensive coordinator Vantz Singletary (Houston) and assistant coach - linebackers Josh Bookbinder (San Antonio).
• Nine Flames will return to their home state on Saturday, including Tolen Avery (Galveston), Will Brown (Texarkana), Dontae Duff (Mesquite), JaRon Greene (Beaumont), Tyrin Holloway (Humble), Cam Jackson (Houston), Julio Lozano (Bellaire), Lionell McConnell (Allen) and Solomon McGinty (Navasota).
• SMU defensive line coach Buddy Wyatt served in that same capacity at Kansas during Turner Gill's two seasons (2010-11) as the Jayhawks' head coach.
• Liberty assistant Scott Downing was assistant head coach at Tulsa from 2011-14, working on the same staff as current SMU assistants Jess Loepp, Van Malone and Archie McDaniel.
