Mississippi Hound Dogs

Mississippi Hound Dogs
Founded 2011
Folded 2012
League Ultimate Indoor Football League
Team history Mississippi Hound Dogs (2012)
Based in Tupelo, Mississippi
Arena BancorpSouth Arena
Colors Blue suede, sky blue, cream
              
Owner(s) Andrew Haines and Michael Taylor
Head coach Martino Theus
Championships 0
Division titles 0
Mascot hound dog

The Mississippi Hound Dogs were a professional indoor football team based in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Hound Dogs played their home games at the BancorpSouth Arena as a member of the Ultimate Indoor Football League's South Division.[1][2]

The Hound Dogs name is an homage to Tupelo's best-known native, the "King of Rock 'n Roll" Elvis Presley, in particular his cover version of "Hound Dog", which became that song's best-known version and one of Presley's best-known recordings in general. (They are the second football team to use the name in homage to Presley; the first, the Memphis Hound Dogs, was a proposed NFL expansion team that was not accepted to the league upon its expansion in 1995.)

The Hound Dogs were the third indoor football team to play in Tupelo, after the Tupelo FireAnts of the National Indoor Football League (2001–2004) and the Mississippi MudCats of the American Indoor Football Association (2007).

On August 16, 2011 the team announced that Martino Theus would be the team's first ever head coach.[3]

On April 24, 2012, the league announced that it had taken over operations of the Mississippi Hound Dogs due to financial difficulty,[4] and modified their schedule to make them a travel-only squad.[5]

Season-by-season

Season W L T Finish Playoff results
2012 1 8 0 5th Southern --

2012 Season

Regular season schedule

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
March 9 Florida Tarpons Away L 35-58
March 17 Lakeland Raiders Away L 27-75
March 23 Rome Rampage Home W 35-30
March 30 Florida Tarpons Home L 22-45
April 7 Lakeland Raiders Home L 12-60
April 21 Eastern Kentucky Drillers Home L 25-60
April 28 Florida Tarpons Away L 26-58
May 26 Florida Tarpons Away L 13-74

There were several changes to the schedule made when the league took over operations of the Hound Dogs. The May 14 game against the Western Pennsylvania Sting was cancelled, and the May 26 game against the Florida Tarpons was originally scheduled to be a home game, but the schedule was changed to play the game in Florida.

Standings

2012 United Indoor Football League
Team Conference Overall
W L PCT W L PCT PF PA
Northern Conference
Cincinnati Commandos-y 8 2 .800 10 2 .833 709 465
Erie Explosion-x 8 3 .727 8 4 .667 788 423
Marion Blue Racers-x 6 4 .600 7 4 .636 602 467
Johnstown Generals 2 6 .250 2 6 .250 231 434
Western Pennsylvania Sting 0 5 .000 0 6 .000 125 464
Southern Conference
Florida Tarpons-y 11 0 1.000 12 1 .923 791 377
Eastern Kentucky Drillers 5 4 .556 6 4 .600 613 361
Lakeland Raiders-x 5 6 .455 6 6 .500 668 442
Rome Rampage 1 6 .143 1 6 .143 100 462
Mississippi Hound Dogs 1 8 .111 1 8 .111 243 471

Current roster

Mississippi Hound Dogs roster
Quarterbacks
  • -- Bart Gloyd

Running Backs

  • Currently vacant

Wide Receivers

  • -- Taurean Rhetta
Offensive Linemen
  • -- Desmoine Ware

Defensive Linemen

  • -- Sterling Williams

Linebackers

  • Currently vacant
 Defensive Backs

Kickers

  • Currently vacant
 Injured Reserve
  • Currently vacant

Exempt List

  • Currently vacant

Practice Squad

  • Currently vacant


Rookies in italics
[] updated October 4, 2011
6 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS

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References

  1. ↑ http://oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=4223663
  2. ↑ Pro football heads to Tupelo for third time
  3. ↑ Tupelo gets its man
  4. ↑ "League steps in on Mississippi". UIFL. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Montrose, Dave (28 April 2012). "Tarpons clinch playoff spot with win over Dogs". Fort Myers News-Press. Retrieved 29 April 2012.

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