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| Courtesy: Josh Resignalo |
Q1 Ashle Norling: You are coaching a first year team (High Country Grizzlies) in a first year league (the NAL). Does that make this year any different from any other year?
Josh Resignalo: I don't think that it does. It's really like any other year for me. Even though the Grizzlies are a 1st year team, the roster is not. Quite a few veterans on our team. Yes we have a couple rookies, but most of these rookies have pro experience in the CFL or NFL. As far as the new league, I am excited to be in the NAL. 1st year league but the NAL has some really great teams.
Q2 AN: With the NAL playing Arena style and not traditional indoor football, is there a challenge to adjust to the style?
JR: Not at all every year that I have coached and played has been arena style rules. Have never been involved with the indoor rules like the IFL or CIF, I enjoy the Arena style.
Q3 AN: You have the highest scoring team in the NAL and just showed that against the Wolfpack. How do you continue that success throughout the year?
JR: I feel that we can keep the success going forward because it has been a total team effort. Our scoring has come from both sides of the ball. This is a QB league, and we have a great one in Stephen Panasuk. He is a great leader and the players give their all for him and that is why we are great on offense. Defensively we are lead by a great Coach in Damian Daniels. His experience has the defense playing great. We have one of the best defensive fronts in the league and that has really put the offense in some great scoring opportunities.
Q4 AN: As we enter the fourth week of the NAL who would you say have been your impact players thus far?
JR: We are really coming together as a team and that is really exciting to see. As of now offensively QB Stephen Panasuk leads the league in most categories offensively which he would definitely thank all his teammates for putting him in that position. WR Malachi Jones has emerged as an explosive play maker for us and excited to see his future unfold. Defensively we are lead by our defensive front, we rotate 5 guys that absolutely get it. They are DL Brandon Sutton, DL Larry Ford, DL Ethan Farmer, DL DeMarkus Berry, and LB Chase Blackburn.
Q5 AN: You have your first meeting of the season against a former AFL team, the unbeaten Jacksonville Sharks. What will you do to give the Sharks their first loss of the season?
JR: The best thing for us to do is to do what we do. Don't change anything and keep playing our game. We went into camp to be the best team that we can be, the only team that can beat us is ourselves. With that mentality anything can happen on any given night. Jacksonville is a great city, great organization, and a great team. (They) Have some of the best front office personnel and coaching staff in the game. Jacksonville will be a great test for us to see where we actually are as a team. Lehigh gave them a game, so I don't see anything less then a great game from both sides. Which that will be great for the fans.
I want to say thank you to Grizzlies head coach Josh Resignalo for giving me the opportunity to interview him and good luck the rest of the season coach!
I want to say thank you to Grizzlies head coach Josh Resignalo for giving me the opportunity to interview him and good luck the rest of the season coach!
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| Credit: Indoor Football League |
Before we get into covering last weeks games, the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles and Project FANCHISE made another desperate attempt for publicity last week. The team gave the fans the opportunity to vote whether or not to sign Greg Hardy. Whether or not he was interested in actually signing doesn't matter at this point. Greg Hardy, was back in 2014 convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Everything this team has been doing has been making the club and the league look like a complete joke.
The Indoor Football League's Week 7 was absolutely filled with close games. As normal the week started off on Friday night with a single game as Colorado faced Salt Lake in round 2 of the FANCHISE Bowl. That game however, while archived on YouTube now, was ONLY available on Twitch.tv. The IFL who has stated that all games will be available FREE on YouTube was not on there. I'm not sure how the league is taking this but I would be upset about that stunt. But anyway the Crush managed their first win of the season, with a 52-49 road win over Salt Lake. The next three games were all on Saturday night. Opening with Green Bay hosting Cedar Rapids. The Titans would be the second team of the week to get their first win with a 41-37 upset win on the road against the Blizzard. In the second game of the night Arizona faced off with the Wichita Falls Nighthawks. The Nighthawks prevailed. In the IFL Game of the Week, the Spokane Empire played host to the Nebraska Danger. In yet another thrilling upset this week the Danger knocked off the Empire on the road to tie for first in the Intense Conference.
Week 8 kicks off with a bang on Friday night when the Arizona Rattlers head to Grand Island to take on the Danger at 7:05PM CT. Saturday night is a busy night with three games at 7:05PM CT as Cedar Rapids hosts Sioux Falls. On top of that game Iowa hosts Green Bay and Wichita Falls hosts Salt Lake. And of course all the games will be LIVE and FREE on YouTube.
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| Credit: Champions Indoor Football |
Champions Indoor Football has now played 6 of it's 15 week season. Week 6 gave us plenty of both good and bad football. Kicking off with a single game on Friday it was the CIF Game of the Week. A fight to the finish saw the game go to overtime with Sioux City beating Omaha 63-56 at the Ralston Arena. Saturday gave us 5 games to watch starting with Dodge City crushing the Dallas Marshals 56-19. Next up was an All-Kansas clash between the Salina Liberty and Wichita Force. In a tight game from the Tony's Pizza Events Center the Force defeated the Liberty 34-28. In Belton, TX at the Bell County Expo Center the Texas Revs would manhandle the CenTex Cavalry 83-35. Out in Bloomington at the same time the Edge faced off with the Kansas City Phantoms. Bloomington edged out the Phantoms by a score of 55-43. Finishing off the games on Saturday was a matchup of two expansion teams as West Michigan traveled to Bismarck to take on the Bucks. The Ironmen prevaled in Bismarck winning 64-57 and the Ironmen's first ever win in the CIF. Sunday night saw the weekend end with Amarillo hosting Duke City. The Gladiators weren't able to overcome the Venom as Amarillo took a 62-59 win.
As with last week, this week also starts off with some big news on the coaching front. This time the CenTex Cavalry announced that Adrian Perez will be assuming the role as head coach. Now this comes as a very late announcement as Perez has already coached two games as Cavalry head coach.
Week 7 kicks off on Friday night when CenTex hosts Duke City at 7PM CT. Saturday has four games being played starting with West Michigan hosting Bloomington at 6PM CT. Three games will be played at 7PM CT with a battle of the unbeatens as Texas hosts Dodge City, Wichita hosts Kansas City, and Salina travels to Mesquite to play the Dallas Marshals. All games are viewable on Eversport.
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| Credit: National Arena League |
On the National Arena League front all 8 teams saw action in Week 3 over the course of four games. On Saturday the NAL would start the week out fast with the NAL Game of the Week as Jacksonville hosted Lehigh Valley. The Sharks would take down a determined Lehigh Valley Steelhawks team by a final score of 57-43. The other game on Saturday saw the High Country Grizzlies host the Wolfpack. High Country would dominate the Wolfpack and almost get a shutout by a final score of 94-6. On Sunday afternoon the Columbus Lions hosted the Georgia Firebirds from the Columbus Civic Center. Even though the Firebirds were coming in with an 0-2 record they fought the Lions all game long but would fall to Columbus 63-50 as the Lions pulled away late in the game. The NAL's Monday Night Football game would be played as the Monterrey Steel hosted the Corpus Christi Rage for the second time in 3 weeks. The Rage again proved to be no match for the Steel as Monterrey won 57-28.
Week 4 sees just 6 teams playing 3 games. Originally all teams were scheduled to play however the Dayton vs Monterrey game was cancelled when Dayton was replaced with the travel only Atlanta based Wolfpack. On Saturday night at 6PM CT the Georgia Firebirds host the Corpus Christi Rage from the Albany Civic Center in Albany, GA. On Sunday afternoon at 2:30 PM CT the Jacksonville Sharks take on the High Country Grizzlies in Boone, NC. Wrapping up the week on Sunday at 4PM CT is a well known matchup as Lehigh Valley hosts Columbus from the PPL Center in Allentown, PA. This week all games are viewable LIVE and FREE on YouTube.
Last week the Games of the Week brought another great set of games yet again. This week looks to be just as good. It all starts on Friday night with the IFL Game of the Week. From the Eihusen Arena in Grand Island the Nebraska Danger (4-2) host the Arizona Rattlers (2-3). This game is a great showdown between teams competing for a playoff spot in the IFL's Intense Conference. The action continues with the CIF Game of the Week on Saturday night at 7PM CT. A battle of unbeaten clubs will see the Texas Revolution (3-0) host the Dodge City Law (5-0) from the Allen Event Center in Allen, TX. It all finishes it out with the NAL Game of the Week on Sunday at 2:30 PM CT. The leagues highest scoring team the High Country Grizzlies (2-1) take on the former AFL club, the Jacksonville Sharks (3-0). Both the IFL and NAL games can be viewed LIVE and FREE on YouTube while the CIF can be viewed on Eversport.
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