The school only has an enrollment of 300. Probably 1/3 of the school's enrollment are football players. I think football is the only sport at the school. It's completely embarrassing to see it in the same town with Liberty University. Even the University of Lynchburg (formerly Lynchburg College) is a thousand times better off than VUL. It's one of those schools where they have to beg for everything. Until it can get financially and academically stable, it has no business having a football team. Same goes for Talladega and its band program. Black Christian colleges like the two I mentioned are a prime example on how Black folks priorities are so screwed up. VUL is a reflection of Black folks in Lynchburg, VA, which is outdated, disconnected from the rest of the world, and hopelessness. A lot of that is by design. The HNIC's in that town are Black folks who were and are employed by the Lynchburg School System. Their main purpose in that town is to make sure Black students in that town do not interfere with the advance studies of White students. Basically, suppress Black students in challenging themselves when it comes to education. And since they are the HNIC's in that town, there are quite a few older Black men (sugar daddies) that are married to much younger Black females (20 to 30 years younger). It's almost like a scene out of 'Color Purple', whereas the only hope most of those young girls have is to get with one of those older Black men in the School System. For a town of its size, it is like stepping into a time warp. I think Lynchburg, VA is the largest city in the country without an interstate highway. The nearest one (I-81) is in Roanoke, VA, which is approximately 50 to 60 miles to the west of Lynchburg.
