2012 MEDIA GUIDE 2012 SCHEDULE MARCH FRONT OFFICE Saturday March 10 at San Antonio 2:00 pm Saturday March 17 at Iowa 6:05 pm Saturday March 24 SAN JOSE 7:00 pm Saturday March 31 NEW ORLEANS 7:00 pm COACHES APRIL Friday April 13 at Jacksonville 6:00 pm Friday April 20 IOWA 7:00 pm Saturday April 28 at Milwaukee 6:00 pm PLAYERS MAY Saturday May 5 SPOKANE 7:00 pm Friday May 11 at San Jose 8:30 pm Saturday May 19 ARIZONA 7:00 pm RECAP 2011 Saturday May 26 SAN ANTONIO 7:00 pm JUNE Saturday June 2 at Kansas City 6:00 pm Saturday June 9 CHICAGO 7:00 pm STATS Saturday June 16 at Spokane 8:00 pm Saturday June 23 GEORGIA 7:00 pm JULY MEDIA Friday July 6 at Arizona 8:00 pm Friday July 13 CLEVELAND 6:00 pm Sunday July 22 at Philadelphia 4:05 pm Dates and times are subject to change. AFL UTBLAZE.COM 1 CONTENTS Front Office . .9 FRONT OFFICE Coaches ........17 Players..........29 COACHES 2011 Recap ......75 Stats ...........95 Media..........107 PLAYERS AFL ........... 115 2011 RECAP 2011 Patent and Trademark Notice Notice: AFL, Arena Football Get It All, The 50-Yard Indoor War, Football With a Bite, In Your Face Football, War on the Floor, Don’t Blink, The Fastest Game on Turf, High Scorin! Heart Stoppin! Helmet Poppin!, Brawl Inside the STATS Wall, Wall 2 Wall Brawl, Real Fun. Real Close. Real Football., and all names, symbols, emblems, logos and colors of the AFL and the AFL member teams are trademarks owned by AFL, Chicago, Illlinois. IRONMAN is a trademark of World Triathalon Corporation, Tarpon Springs, Florida, and is used under license. The Arena Football Game Systems and Method of Play are protected under U.S. Patent No. 4911433; Canadian Patent No. 1314062; Japanese Patent No. 2654822; and Mexican Patent No. 168556. 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Editor-in-Chief: Mike Dijulio; Layout and Design: Blaine Lee 2 UTBLAZE.COM LOGAN HUNTER OWNER Logan Hunter, a native of FRONT OFFICE Northern California, received a football scholarship from Brigham Young University in 1970. He was the leading receiver in the WAC his senior year at BYU. After completing their education, Hunter and his wife returned to California to work in sales and marketing and start their family. COACHES In 1983, Hunter returned to Utah and established Hunter Management Company, Inc, where he served as President and CEO. Hunter Management Company became the second franchisee in the state of Utah for the SUBWAY® Sandwich Franchise. Shortly thereafter, Logan PLAYERS was named the Utah Territory Development Agent with that company. Over the years, the territory has grown to over 230 locations and continues to expand. Hunter expanded his franchising business in 2005 by creating Abundant Brands, LLC. A venture was made with Abundant Brands and the SUBWAY franchisor to acquire and operate a new restaurant called Bajio Mexican Grill. In October 2009, he was able to RECAP 2011 obtain complete ownership of the Bajio, and has since merged this concept with the owners of Costa Vida Mexican Grill. Numerous franchises are open throughout the United States and Abundant Brands currently operates 20 of the locations directly in Utah and Arizona. Hunter and his wife Diane have four children, Lloyd, Devyn, Max and Lindsey, and 16 grandchildren. His interests include racquetball, golf, and being a private pilot and aircraft STATS owner. MEDIA AFL UTBLAZE.COM 3 KRISTIN MURDOCK OWNER Kristin Murdock can be called the world’s only “entre-manure” after finding great success in turning cow dung into fun creations. What began as a joke has turned her into a national phenomenon. FRONT OFFICE After developing a very funny Christmas gift for her sister, Donny Osmond literally took her sister’s gift off her mantle and showed it on the “Donny and Marie Show.” From that first cow-pie clock, she has developed a full line COACHES of entertaining “tongue-in-cheek” creations, including mirrors, a full line of greeting cards, cookies and bumper stickers. Her art licensing company produces a wide variety of products including t-shirts, hats, baby bibs, posters, post- cards, mugs, magnets and calendars. PLAYERS Murdock began her career in the entertainment industry at age 18. She has appeared in over 600 USO shows in 12 worldwide tours throughout Europe, South America, the South Seas, Alaska and Korea performing for thousands of servicemen. She also received a full scholarship to Snow College before transferring to Brigham Young University, where she studied communications and speech. Over the years, she has held many positions in her church and the school system. She was 2011 RECAP 2011 PTA President and also developed the first earthquake preparedness system to go into the Provo School District. She is a firm believer in giving back to the community and says this world is a great place mainly because of volunteers. For several years, she taught “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” for Steven Covey as a volunteer facilitator. She is a sought after lecturer in university entrepreneurial business schools and has STATS appeared on game shows and the “Tyra Banks Show” with her cow-pie creations. MEDIA Lorraine Clark, Executive Assistant AFL 4 UTBLAZE.COM JASON BUCK OWNER Jason Buck enters his second FRONT OFFICE year as a member of the Blaze ownership group and brings extensive college and professional football experience. Buck played collegiately at Brigham Young University, where he received the Outland Trophy as the nation’s top lineman in 1986. He was selected 17th overall in the first round of COACHES the 1987 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. Buck joined the Washington Redskins in 1991 and earned a championship ring after the team defeated the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI. He retired from professional football in 1993. Following his football career, Buck entered into PLAYERS finance, where he would serve as a partner in the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America for three years. He was later recruited into the world of investment banking and became series 7 & 63 licensed. Buck would become a partner in a boutique structured product desk located in Newport Beach, California that specialized in custom designing products for many of the top 20 banks in the world (mainly European). 2011 RECAP 2011 Since retiring from the NFL, Buck has stayed active in football. He served as an analyst for the regional CBS, NBC and FOX networks, while also coaching his two sons. He has also been an inspirational speaker for various universities, corporations and groups throughout the United States. Buck and his wife Roxi list their main focus in life as their children and grandchildren. STATS MEDIA AFL UTBLAZE.COM 5 ISAAC JACOBSON OWNER Isaac Jacobson has been an entrepreneur and business owner for over two decades. His unique talents and tactics have made him proficient in streamlining strategies for business development, assembling top-tier executive teams, raising millions in start-up capital, FRONT OFFICE forming strategic alliances, selling and merging companies, and recruiting powerful members to boards. Isaac has held executive positions in sales and COACHES business development with various companies, including: theDial.com, Digonex Technologies, Digital Kiosk Technologies, MD Biologics and Humanizing Technologies. Jacobson is currently the CEO of eTAGZ Inc., a Utah company he acquired from Wasatch Ventures. eTAGZ owns and services patents on attaching memory to merchandise with PLAYERS over one billion retail products per year. Externally, Mr. Jacobson holds board positions with Openbook and Secure American Gold Exchange. Isaac is dedicated to his community and currently serves on the UVU Foundation Board. He is the founder of Hispano Hope, a charity network supporting education services for children in the Hispanic community. Isaac, his wife Tara, and their three children reside in Mapleton, Utah. 2011 RECAP 2011 STATS MEDIA AFL 6 UTBLAZE.COM ED BRUNO OWNER Ed Bruno joins the Blaze ownership group from a rich background in sales FRONT OFFICE and marketing. He will represent the Blaze in managing a profitable revenue growth, implementing new sales strategies, and introducing national sponsors into the local Salt Lake City market. Bruno, a 17-year media executive and entrepreneur, has launched numerous new media ventures. Today, Bruno is a partner in Puget Sound Broadcasting, a Seattle-based radio company that owns KFMY-FM 97.7 and KLSY-FM, currently under a LMA with Fischer Broadcasting simulcast on KOMO-AM 1000. As an equity partner, he helped launch COACHES KAYO-FM 99.3, which sold to Bustos Spanish Media in 2005 for $20 million. During his career, Bruno was the president of eTAGZ, a digital media company working with major apparel brands across the country. Bruno was the co-founder of Impact Media, a Los Angeles based direct response cable television firm.