FULL SHOW: MVFC Media Day Team Chats (SDSU, MSU, Illinois State, YSU, Indiana State, UND, USD, UNI, SIU, Todd Stepsis & Victor Edwards"

FULL SHOW: MVFC Media Day Team Chats (SDSU, MSU, Illinois State, YSU, Indiana State, UND, USD, UNI, SIU, Todd Stepsis & Victor Edwards"

From Happy Hour with John Gaskins by John Gaskins

July 15, 2026 · 1h 41m · Season 2 · Episode 116

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The episode features interviews with coaches and players from the Missouri Valley Football Conference during Media Day 2026.

It is Mid-July, the Sahara Desert of the summer sports calendar. If you've had a deep thirst to hear about football, Tuesday in the Sioux Falls Pentagon was the time and day to quench it. Behold, Missouri Valley Football Conference Media Day 2026. All nine teams sent one coach and two players to talk about... well, whatever the media asked them. The men were sent through a car wash of reporters and recorders around Heritage Court, station-to-station. Sioux Falls Live's team of Matt Zimmer and Marcus Traxler sat down with the three representatives from each school simultaneously. Nine times. Yes, we're channeling Dean of Students Ed Rooney from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Niiiiine times! Those chats were all approximately 10-minute overviews of the programs, with questions and answers focused on their expectations, their improvements from last year, and the gauntlet that still is the MVFC despite North Dakota State's exit to the FCS. Oh, yeah, almost every team was asked about the notable absence of the Bison. Here is the full show, which you can also listen via the Happy Hour podcast page : Meanwhile, some of those same interview subjects were escorted a few feet away for 1-on-1…

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