The 2012 Dayton Silverbacks season is the seventh season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise.
After much speculation about whether or not the Silverbacks would leave the CIFL and join the Ultimate Indoor Football League, the Silverbacks management made an announcement that they would be staying in the CIFL and helping the league rebuild after losing its top two teams from the 2011 season. Coach Derrick Shepad resigned at the end of the 2011 season.[1] On September 8, 2011, Mister Askew was named the 6th coach in Silverbacks history.[2] On February 9, 2012, it was announced that Silverbacks Football LLC, in which Jeff Kolaczkowski of Dayton acted as president of that organization, decided they would be stepping out of the world of football and selling the team to an ownership group. The Dayton Silverbacks were sold to MRL Sports Entertainment LLC. There are currently three members on the ownership board for MRL Sports Entertainment LLC and all three board members were current members of the Dayton Silverbacks front office staff. Those members were Michael Lause, April Shellenberger and Tyree Fields. On March 1, just ten days before the season started, the Silverback fired Head Coach Mister Askew. The reasons for his termination have yet to be determined.[3] Before the season started, Fields left the team in all capacities, leaving only Lause and Shellenberger. Then after one week of the season, Lause left the team as well for reasons that are unknown. With Shelleberger the lone person in charge, there is doubt that the team will survive past the 2012 season.[4]
The Silverbacks finished with a team record 8 wins (the previous team record was 5) as they finished the season 8-1.
They were defeated by the Saginaw Sting, 7-35, in the 2012 CIFL Championship Game.[5]
^"Coach resigns from Silverbacks". Dayton Daily News. June 15, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
^Silverbacks coach knows indoor football
^"BREAKING: Silverback fire head coach Mister Askew". March 1, 2012. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
^"Lause, Fields abandon ship; Silverbacks on life support". DaytonProSports.com. March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
^Erich T. Doerr (June 3, 2012). "Saginaw Sting find perfection, third title in four years with 35-7 CIFL title game victory over Dayton Silverbacks". www.mlive.com. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
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