Blair Hrovat
Associate Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
Second Season

Phone: 812-237-4077

Email: bhrovat@isugw.indstate.edu  

Blair Hrovat begins his second season with the Indiana State Sycamore football program under head coach Lou West. Hrovat serves as the team’s Associate Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator. He will also coach the Sycamore quarterbacks.

Last season Hrovat tutored quarterback Reilly Murphy to standout junior campaign in which he was named to the Gateway Football Conference's All-Newcomer team. Murphy finished the season by completing nearly 55% of his passes and tossing for 1,747 yards. He completed eight touchdown passes on the season.

In 2006, Hrovat had three different offensive players earn All-Gateway Football Conference honors. Leading the way was Fred Staugh, who was an All-Gateway Football Conference Second Team selection. Staugh started all 11 games for the Sycamores at right tackle. He was the lead blocker for a rushing offense that gained 147 yards per game, which ranked 55th in the nation. The Sycamore offense finished second in the Gateway for passing yardage, averaging 213.3 yards per game, which was good enough for 26th in the NCAA. Total offense was not a problem either for the Sycamores, as Staugh was a key component of a unit which tallied 360.3 yards per game for a final ranking of 31st-best in the country. Staugh was a prominent member of an offensive line that allowed just over one sack per game, which was third-best in the Gateway and 23rd best in the nation. As a sophomore, Staugh earned All-Gateway Newcomer team plaudits.

Earning All-Gateway Honorable mention selections were senior wide receivers Sam Logan and Carl Berman. Berman paced the team with 59 catches for 783 yards, an average of 13.8 yards per catch. He was on the receiving end of four touchdown passes, and caught a season-long 41-yard touchdown from Reilly Murphy in the season finale against Illinois State. A multi-faceted star, he averaged 18.6 yards per kick return. Berman’s 5.38 receptions per game average ranks second-best in the Gateway and finished 29th in the nation. He averaged 71.8 yards receiving per game, good enough for third in the Gateway and 37th in the nation. In addition, Berman’s 18.6 yard kick return average was seventh best in the GFC. He topped the 100-yard receiving mark twice on the season, at Eastern Illinois as well as Western Illinois. Berman was also named to the Gateway’s All-Academic Second Team earlier this week.

For his efforts, Berman was invited in May of 2007 to attend the Washington Redskins' Preseason Mini-Camp. Berman became the first-ever Sycamores to join the Redskins as either a draftee or a mini-camp invitee.

Logan finished the year by catching 49 passes for 535 yards, to average 10.9 yards per catch and record four touchdowns. His 4.9 catches per game were fourth-best in the Gateway, and ranked 39th in the nation. Logan averaged 53.5 receiving yards per game, sixth-best in the Gateway, while posting the first multi-touchdown game of his career when he caught a pair of touchdowns passes at Western Illinois. He tossed a touchdown on a successful fake field goal at Western Illinois to pull the Sycamores within two points of the Leathernecks late in the fourth quarter. Logan finished his career with 196 catches for 2,388 – both school records, and his 196 career catches are No. 4 on the Gateway Football Conference’s career list.

As a team, ISU's 35 points scored at Purdue in the 2006 season opener marked the most they have ever scored versus a Big Ten foe and the most it has scored against a NCAA Division I-A opponent since hanging 40 on Cincinnati in 1987. The 35 points were the most in a road season opener for the Sycamores since scoring 32 at Eastern Illinois in 1966. Ironically, on the day ISU scored its 35 against Purdue, the Boilermakers honored their 1966 Rose Bowl Championship team at halftime.

In addition, the Sycamores’ 41 points scored against Western Illinois (Nov. 4) were the most by an ISU offensive unit since the 2004 season when they put up that exact total against both UT-Martin as well as Illinois State. The last time a Sycamore team put up at least that many points on the road was in 1999, when ISU took a 66-44 victory at Southern Illinois.

Hrovat spent the 2005 season as an assistant football coach at Sequoya High School in Canton, Ga. While there he was the team’s offensive coordinator as well as a special education instructor.

He spent four seasons as the head coach at NCAA Division III Allegheny College (Pa.) from 1998-2002. While with Allegheny, Hrovat compiled a 26-14 record while his squads broke 15 team records. Hrovat coached and recruited the school’s career passing leader, while he also coached the school’s all-time rushing, scoring, receiving and touchdown receptions leaders. His offense averaged over 35 points and 435 yards per game during his stay.

In 2001, the Allegheny offense averaged 214 yards rushing as well as 214 yards passing per game. From 1992-98, Hrovat was the Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator at the University of South Dakota. During his stay in Vermillion, S.D., he also served as the program’s recruiting coordinator and led an offense that broke 10 school records in his seven seasons. He coached the school’s career passing as well as the No. 2 career TD leaders.

For three seasons, he was the offensive coordinator as well as quarterbacks coach at San Francisco State University. His offense enjoyed a No. 1 conference ranking, while he oversaw a unit that broke or tied 11 school records. At SFSU, he also served as a fund-raising assistant to the Athletic Director.

Hrovat spent two summers (1991 & 1994) as an offensive backfield guest coach for the Canadian Football League’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

"I’m looking forward to this challenge, and the opportunity to work with Coach West," coach Hrovat said. "I am intrigued and excited to work and help mold the spread offense here at Indiana State. I am ready to help the Sycamores continue to build their tradition up."

He received a B.A. degree for Specialized Studies in Business and Computer Science from Edinboro University (Pa.) in 2003. Hrovat was inducted into the Edinboro University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005, following a successful football career at the school where Olympic Champion and ISU alum Bruce Baumgartner is the current Director of Athletics.

As a quarterback, he was ranked second in the nation for passing at the NCAA Division II level. He set 17 Edinboro records and received the Sox Harrison Award as the school’s outstanding senior athlete in 1984. As a starter, he posted a career record of 25-6 and ranks amongst the PSAC’s Top 10 for career passing yards as well as touchdowns. He completed 49 TD passes as a senior.