United Indoor Football League Presenting Season Preview of All 11 Teams In League Online - UIF
MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - United Indoor Football will be bringing you a Season Preview of each of its 11 teams over the next 11 days. Each preview will include text as well as an audio link. Today, we preview the expansion Colorado Ice. Click here for audio preview. Collins Sanders knows it will be difficult to put together a winner in the team’s first year of operation, but he says, “We’re going to give it a shot.” Sanders knows about putting together a brand new team. This will be Sanders’ fifth indoor expansion team to head up. Coaching the Ice allows him to shed his self-proclaimed nomad status and be with his family. When asked about long-term success in the Northern Colorado area during a Jan. 28 interview with the Coloradoan, Sanders said, “It certainly helps to have a winner. If you can truly tell people you’re going to be respectable, then people are going to go ahead and give you an opportunity to be respectable, and they’re going to come on out and support you. We think we’re going to be able to do well in year one and our ultimate goal is to win the whole thing. We need to be respectable on the field and qualify for the playoffs, which I think we can do.” While Sanders is impressed with the talent league-wide, he had no shortage of talent to choose from in tryouts with nearly 250 athletes competing for a training camp slot. Quarterback Ryan Clement of the University of Miami was a notable signing. Clement was a 30-game starter for the ‘Canes and has NFL Europa and CFL experience under the belt. He’ll be protected by a local product. Offensive lineman Gary Moore, 6’7, 330 lbs., was a two-year starter at the University of Colorado. Sanders has several players from Colorado State, CU and the University of Northern Colorado on the roster. He also pulled from the University of Wyoming and several smaller colleges in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. “You do your homework, you make some good contacts with the local colleges and you can’t be afraid to get the smaller school guys,” Sanders said during a This Week in the UIF web cast earlier this year. No matter where the talent comes from, Sanders is more concerned about how they fit together. “There’s a lot of talent running around out there, but talent that can fit together in a cohesive framework and then have the chemistry to create a winning situation, is really what’s probably the most difficult,” he added in the Coloradoan interview.
Jessica Quiroli
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