The Sioux Falls Storm is pleased to announce that veteran quarterback, Terrance Bryant, has officially signed on to lead the Storm back to title contention in 2010.
Bryant will be entering his 6th Season as quarterback for the Storm. In his eight-year indoor career, Terrance has thrown for more than 20,000 yards and 416 touchdowns and led the Storm to four championships.
"I love the direction this bus is headed," said Bryant. "I just wanted to get on and get my seat."
The crafty veteran is coming off another outstanding 2009 season where he led an offense that was 3rd in the IFL in scoring offense (50.9 points per game), 3rd in the IFL in total offense (251.2 yards per game), and guided the team to 11 wins on the field. The Oregon State University alum completed 67.9% of his passes for 2,513 yards and 51 TD's in 2009. He also ran for another 8 TD's and threw only 12 interceptions on the year.
"Terrance is a big piece to this puzzle we are putting back together," stated Storm owner Todd Tryon. "We are counting on his leadership both on and off the field.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
IFL Tips its Hand
IFL posts it's geographic map for the 2010 season
http://goifl.com/teams/geographicmap/
I suppose it's "official" now the IFL adds six teams.
Amarillo
Austin
Richmond
Chicago
Green Bay
La Crosse
http://goifl.com/teams/geographicmap/
I suppose it's "official" now the IFL adds six teams.
Amarillo
Austin
Richmond
Chicago
Green Bay
La Crosse
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Omaha Beef & River City Rage "Merge"
http://billingsgazette.com/sports/football/professional/arena/article_4686218a-bed4-11de-bc30-001cc4c03286.html
The Omaha Beef will have a decidedly different look for the 2010 Indoor Football League season following a 22-player trade with the suddenly defunct River City Rage, who played the Billings Outlaws in the inaugural league championship game in August.
The deal, which sent 15 players to Omaha and just seven back to River City, was confirmed to The Gazette by Jeff Sprowls, who was co-owner of both teams.
"It is just an outstanding business move" Sprowls said of the trade via telephone Wednesday morning. "There was nothing illegal about it. I talked to the 15 guys we traded for and asked if they wanted to play for Omaha. They all said yes, so we made the deal."
The league requires that the players involved in the trade sit out the first three games of the regular season.
"We do have a rule in the IFL that if you were on a team's 30-man roster at the end of the season and choose to play for another team, you have to sit out three games," said IFL commissioner Tommy Benizio. "We want there to be some continuity to our league."
The trade stems from River City's announcement last week that they will not return to action in 2010. Billings defeated the Rage 72-61 in the inaugural United Bowl on Aug. 15 at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark.
Sprowls, who co-owned both teams along with his father and brother, said it was time to focus on running just one team.
"We had a lot of things happen in Omaha that shouldn't have happened," Sprowls said. "A lot of money was stolen and we just need to worry about running one team (Omaha)."
The trade immediately makes Omaha the early favorite to challenge Billings for the 2010 IFL title. The Outlaws went 15-2 last season to claim their second league championship in the past four seasons.
Omaha bolstered both sides of the ball in the trade, acquiring defensive backs Paul Simpson, Darnell Terrell, Cornieules "Pig" Brown, Byron Jones, Daryon Bruteley. The ball-hawking quintet combined for 18 interceptions last season.
The Beef also added first-team All-IFL linebacker Joe Bevis, who ranked sixth in the IFL in tackles last season with 721/2.
On the offensive side of the ball, Omaha added quarterback Ben Sankey - who will likely battle three-year Beef starter James McNear for the starting job. Sankey completed 62 of 97 passes for 699 yards and 21 touchdowns during the IFL playoffs, including a 225-yard, eight-touchdown performance in the championship game loss to Billings.
Wide receivers Luke McArdle, Tyrone Timmons and Shawn Piper will join Sankey in Omaha, along with running back Randy Bell. McCardle caught 22 touchdowns last season while gaining just under 1,000 yards (985).
Rounding out Omaha's pickups are linemen Anthony Harris, Richard Birch (DL), Joel Clinger and George Batiste (OL).
River City acquired Brent Hafford, Dorsey Golston, Harold Clewis, Zach Gradoville, Ricky Lebeda, Demitrius Wilbert, Johnnie Taylor in the deal. They were then released, along with the rest of the Rage roster on Oct. 15.
The IFL, which currently consists of 17 teams after River City and Saginaw announced they would not return, is finalizing expansion teams for the 2010 season. The league is expected to have 22 teams in 2010 and plans to announce the schedule next month.
The Omaha Beef will have a decidedly different look for the 2010 Indoor Football League season following a 22-player trade with the suddenly defunct River City Rage, who played the Billings Outlaws in the inaugural league championship game in August.
The deal, which sent 15 players to Omaha and just seven back to River City, was confirmed to The Gazette by Jeff Sprowls, who was co-owner of both teams.
"It is just an outstanding business move" Sprowls said of the trade via telephone Wednesday morning. "There was nothing illegal about it. I talked to the 15 guys we traded for and asked if they wanted to play for Omaha. They all said yes, so we made the deal."
The league requires that the players involved in the trade sit out the first three games of the regular season.
"We do have a rule in the IFL that if you were on a team's 30-man roster at the end of the season and choose to play for another team, you have to sit out three games," said IFL commissioner Tommy Benizio. "We want there to be some continuity to our league."
The trade stems from River City's announcement last week that they will not return to action in 2010. Billings defeated the Rage 72-61 in the inaugural United Bowl on Aug. 15 at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark.
Sprowls, who co-owned both teams along with his father and brother, said it was time to focus on running just one team.
"We had a lot of things happen in Omaha that shouldn't have happened," Sprowls said. "A lot of money was stolen and we just need to worry about running one team (Omaha)."
The trade immediately makes Omaha the early favorite to challenge Billings for the 2010 IFL title. The Outlaws went 15-2 last season to claim their second league championship in the past four seasons.
Omaha bolstered both sides of the ball in the trade, acquiring defensive backs Paul Simpson, Darnell Terrell, Cornieules "Pig" Brown, Byron Jones, Daryon Bruteley. The ball-hawking quintet combined for 18 interceptions last season.
The Beef also added first-team All-IFL linebacker Joe Bevis, who ranked sixth in the IFL in tackles last season with 721/2.
On the offensive side of the ball, Omaha added quarterback Ben Sankey - who will likely battle three-year Beef starter James McNear for the starting job. Sankey completed 62 of 97 passes for 699 yards and 21 touchdowns during the IFL playoffs, including a 225-yard, eight-touchdown performance in the championship game loss to Billings.
Wide receivers Luke McArdle, Tyrone Timmons and Shawn Piper will join Sankey in Omaha, along with running back Randy Bell. McCardle caught 22 touchdowns last season while gaining just under 1,000 yards (985).
Rounding out Omaha's pickups are linemen Anthony Harris, Richard Birch (DL), Joel Clinger and George Batiste (OL).
River City acquired Brent Hafford, Dorsey Golston, Harold Clewis, Zach Gradoville, Ricky Lebeda, Demitrius Wilbert, Johnnie Taylor in the deal. They were then released, along with the rest of the Rage roster on Oct. 15.
The IFL, which currently consists of 17 teams after River City and Saginaw announced they would not return, is finalizing expansion teams for the 2010 season. The league is expected to have 22 teams in 2010 and plans to announce the schedule next month.
Friday, October 9, 2009
This Week In the IFL
Ryan Minch, Billings Outlaw beat writer and blogger his opened his own blog.
http://thisweekintheindoorfootballleague.blogspot.com
Having his insight and connections are a true asset to the indoor football community.
http://thisweekintheindoorfootballleague.blogspot.com
Having his insight and connections are a true asset to the indoor football community.
IFL Likely to Lose Saginaw
Not a huge loss, but puts Muskegon on an island.
http://www.mlive.com/sports/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/10/saginaw_stings_future_in_quest.html
A week before the deadline to rejoin the Indoor Football League, the Saginaw Sting have yet to state their intentions to the league office, raising questions about the team’s future.
IFL commissioner Tommy Benizio said Thursday afternoon that he has been unsuccessful in several attempts to contact Sting owner Mike Trumbull. The deadline for teams to join the league for the 2010 season is Thursday, October 15, and so far the Sting have not officially rejoined the league.
“Because we’re so close to the deadline and we haven’t heard from them, we feel it’s unlikely they will play in the IFL next season,” Benizio said.
Benizio said he has left several messages for Trumbull, after Sting management was not present at the league’s owners meetings in August. A message left by The Saginaw News on Trumbull’s cell phone Thursday afternoon went unreturned.
Matt Blase, general manager of the Dow Event Center, said the Sting’s lease at The Dow extends through the next indoor football league season, and that nobody from the Sting has contacted him about changing the lease.
Trumbull told The Saginaw News in late June that he planned to return the Sting to Saginaw, despite a net loss of about $300,000 in the 2009 season for him and partner Esteban Rivera.
The Sting played their first season in 2008 as an expansion team in the Continental Indoor Football League, and won the league championship. The team moved to the IFL last season, where they finished the season 3-11.
The scope of indoor football across the country has changed since the Sting played their last game. The Arena Football League suspended operations indefinitely in August, after shutting down for the 2009 season. A new league, Arena Football 1, has been formed to take the place of the old AFL, and will begin operations in March 2010.
http://www.mlive.com/sports/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/10/saginaw_stings_future_in_quest.html
A week before the deadline to rejoin the Indoor Football League, the Saginaw Sting have yet to state their intentions to the league office, raising questions about the team’s future.
IFL commissioner Tommy Benizio said Thursday afternoon that he has been unsuccessful in several attempts to contact Sting owner Mike Trumbull. The deadline for teams to join the league for the 2010 season is Thursday, October 15, and so far the Sting have not officially rejoined the league.
“Because we’re so close to the deadline and we haven’t heard from them, we feel it’s unlikely they will play in the IFL next season,” Benizio said.
Benizio said he has left several messages for Trumbull, after Sting management was not present at the league’s owners meetings in August. A message left by The Saginaw News on Trumbull’s cell phone Thursday afternoon went unreturned.
Matt Blase, general manager of the Dow Event Center, said the Sting’s lease at The Dow extends through the next indoor football league season, and that nobody from the Sting has contacted him about changing the lease.
Trumbull told The Saginaw News in late June that he planned to return the Sting to Saginaw, despite a net loss of about $300,000 in the 2009 season for him and partner Esteban Rivera.
The Sting played their first season in 2008 as an expansion team in the Continental Indoor Football League, and won the league championship. The team moved to the IFL last season, where they finished the season 3-11.
The scope of indoor football across the country has changed since the Sting played their last game. The Arena Football League suspended operations indefinitely in August, after shutting down for the 2009 season. A new league, Arena Football 1, has been formed to take the place of the old AFL, and will begin operations in March 2010.
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