INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) has released the schedule along with a fan-friendly website for the ninth annual GLVC Football Kickoff event, which will take place on the campus of McKendree University this Friday, July 30. The website, which can be found at
GLVCsports.com/2021kickoff, combines several social and traditional media platforms to allow both the league’s media and fan base to interact with the eight GLVC football head coaches and 16 student-athletes that will be at The Hettenhausen Center for the Arts from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central Time.
Each school’s coach and two student-athletes will rotate through a number of 10-minute stations designed to promote GLVC football on various platforms, including a live press conference on the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN), engaging “4 Downs” interviews that will be uploaded to the GLVC’s official YouTube page, an Instagram photo shoot and “Chalk Talk” session, as well as a “3 & Out” feature on Facebook Live.
Also back this year is the America’s Crossroads Bowl Lounge, which will allow each team to take a break from the social action and get reintroduced to the postseason bowl game, while watching a highlight video from the 2019 contest.
Each coach and student-athlete will also take part in several interview sessions. When they reach the live video stream station, the team representatives will spend 10 minutes previewing the upcoming season, as coverage of the formal press conference will be streamed live for all fans to watch free of charge on GLVCSN.com, as well as the GLVCSN iOS and Android mobile apps and GLVCSN OTT apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV.
Not only will fans have an opportunity to see their team in a formal setting, but they will have several opportunities to see their personal side, as well. The “3 & Out” feature on Facebook Live will showcase each participant fielding questions focused on life as an NCAA Division II student-athlete while also taking questions submitted by GLVC fans watching online. The “4 Downs” YouTube segment will provide each student-athlete the opportunity to become a GLVCSN Extra Credit reporter and put their fellow teammate on the clock with four “hot seat” questions.
Fans will learn more about the keys to victory and pregame protocol from the teams at the Instagram “Chalk Talk” station, while coaches and players will also pose for a variety of different photos and videos on the platform. Attendees can immediately post those pictures to their social media accounts and share them with all of their friends and fans of the team.
Additionally, the “Center for the Arts” returns this year for the third-straight event to showcase the artistic side of each attendee and is guaranteed to impress on various social platforms.
The league will also be using Twitter to promote the 2021 season on its official account,
@GLVCsports. The GLVC will once again be using the hashtag #GLVCkickoff and encourages its schools and fans to do the same. In addition, the league will release the 2021 GLVC Preseason Poll on Twitter over the course of the first hour of the event. Back for a seventh season will be “Twenty on Twitter,” which concludes the online event with all eight coaches and 16 players tweeting live on both their personal and school’s official athletics accounts from 12:50-1:10 p.m. CT. Over those final 20 minutes, the league participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts on the event, tweet photos from the day, or answer any final questions from fans on select accounts, including
@UIndyAthletics,
@LU_Lions,
@McKBearcats,
@minersports,
@QUHawks,
@sbubearcats,
@TrumanAthletics, and
@JewellCardinals.
Media members attending the GLVC Football Kickoff will also be involved in the station rotation, as each team will spend 10 minutes with reporters from print, radio, and TV throughout the league’s footprint.
A photo gallery featuring the day’s activities, as well as group pictures of the head coaches and student-athletes in attendance, will also be available following the event.
In addition to the
players and coaches scheduled to attend the 2021 GLVC Football Kickoff, GLVC Commissioner Jim Naumovich and GLVC Supervisor of Football Officials Mike McCann will have a presence at the event.
The schedule featuring all the day’s social media stations can be found below:
2021 GLVC FOOTBALL KICKOFF COVERAGE
| TIME (CT) |
GLVCSN |
4 Downs |
Arts |
Media |
Media |
Chalk Talk |
3 & Out |
ACB Lounge |
| 11:30 AM |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
| 11:40 AM |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
| 11:50 AM |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
| 12:00 PM |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
| 12:10 PM |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
| 12:20 PM |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
LWU |
| 12:30 PM |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
UINDY |
| 12:40 PM |
UINDY |
LWU |
TSU |
S&T |
MCK |
SBU |
WJC |
QU |
| 12:50 PM |
GLVC |
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KEY: UINDY-Indianapolis, LWU-Lindenwood, MCK-McKendree, S&T-Missouri S&T, QU-Quincy, SBU-Southwest Baptist, TSU-Truman State, WJC-William Jewell, GLVC-Commissioner Jim Naumovich/Supervisor of Football Officials Mike McCann