INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) has announced the schedule, along with a fan-friendly website, for the 11th annual GLVC Football Kickoff event, which will take place on the campus of McKendree University this Friday, July 28. The website, which can be found at
GLVCsports.com/2023kickoff, combines several social and traditional media platforms to allow both the league’s media and fanbase 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 AM to 2 PM Central Time.
Each school’s coach and two student-athletes will rotate through several 10-minute stations designed to promote GLVC football on various platforms, including a live press conference on the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN), fun “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 “Teammate Test” feature on Facebook Live.
When each coach and student-athlete reach the
GLVCSN 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, 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 “Teammate Test” on
Facebook Live and the popular “Center for the Arts” stations had been removed from the docket in previous years to accommodate varying number of league teams and station needs but are both making a return this season. The “Teammate Test” will mirror the popular “Newlywed Game” theme and assess each player’s knowledge of one another by fielding questions such as, “what is your teammate’s favorite food?” or “which cartoon character most resembles your teammate?” The Arts station will showcase the artistic side of each attendee, and these masterpieces will be shared on various social platforms for fans to enjoy.
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, while the newest station and GLVC social platform addition from 2022 –
TikTok – will be back this year, but with a new theme of “Gen U.” Players will be asked to identify images of various types of technology or trends from past decades and generations, while each coach will be tasked with defining popular slang terms and phrases used by current college-aged students. These videos will be posted to the @glvcsports account following the event.
Fans will also learn more about the keys to victory and pregame protocol from the teams at the
Instagram “Chalk Talk” station, while coaches and players will pose for a variety of photos and videos on the platform. Attendees can immediately post their own pictures to their social media and share with all their friends and fans.
The league will also be using Twitter to promote the 2023 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 2023 GLVC Preseason Poll on Twitter over the course of the first hour of the event. Back for a ninth 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 PM 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 team accounts, including @
UIndyAthletics, @
McKBearcats, @
minersports, @
QUHawks, @
sbubearcats, @
TrumanAthletics, @
UIUPeacocks, 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 2023 GLVC Football Kickoff, GLVC Commissioner Jim Naumovich and GLVC Supervisor of Football Officials Mike McCann will also have a presence at the event.
The complete schedule for all the day’s stations can be found below:
2023 GLVC FOOTBALL KICKOFF COVERAGE
| TIME (CT) |
GLVCSN |
4 DOWNS |
ARTS |
MEDIA |
MEDIA |
CHALK TALK |
TEAMMATE TEST |
GEN U |
| 11:30 AM |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
| 11:40 |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
| 11:50 |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
| 12:00 PM |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
| 12:10 |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
| 12:20 |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
TSU |
| 12:30 |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
UINDY |
| 12:40 |
UINDY |
TSU |
SBU |
S&T |
MCK |
QU |
UIU |
WJC |
| 12:50 |
GLVC |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
| 12:50-1:10 |
Twenty on Twitter |
KEY: UINDY-Indianapolis, MCK-McKendree, S&T-Missouri S&T, QU-Quincy, SBU-Southwest Baptist, TSU-Truman State, UIU-Upper Iowa, WJC-William Jewell, GLVC-Commissioner Jim Naumovich/Supervisor of Football Officials Mike McCann