2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Every gym teacher I know, also coaches. 

That's why they become gym teachers. they study sports movement & performance called Kinesiology.

[Fatty Liver]

16 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

That's why they become gym teachers. they study sports movement & performance called Kinesiology.

Be honest, most of em can't even spell that word.

[SpeedFlex27]

10 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

Be honest, most of em can't even spell that word.

Don't take this the wrong way, Tracker. I'm just clarifying a few points that have always bothered me about this, "He can't play so he coaches stuff".

Some of the best coaches that exist coach high school & community sports. My AD at Centennial High School in Calgary when I worked as as an Educational Assistant there was on Canada's Olympic Volleyball Team in 1976. Also playd for a couple of years on Canada's National Volleyball team. He went to the U of Wpg & was Garth Pischke's teammate there & when they represented Canada.

The HC of the senior football team at Centennial was a star linebacker at Acadia. Tore his knee up his senior year which ended his career. He turned the football program around at our high school from a team that couldn't win a game. They had maybe 30 kids at practice on a good day playing in Division 3 ball & there wa sapathy a plenty whn it came to football. 

He transformed his sad sack senior team into one that rose to Div 1 with 65 players wanting to play within 3 years of him taking over. He had an infectious personality & was always positive even when they struggled on the field. His players loved him. Especially on defense as he was also the DC. He also convinced the entire team to get into the weight room for off season workouts where the previous coach had failed. We had a couple of excellent basketball coaches coaching the boys & girls teams who certainly raised the profile of the sport in our school. As well as soccer & rugby, too.

In community football here in Calgary, I've had the pleasure to be on the staff of coaches who were great players in their day. One in particular is a City of Calgary Police Officer who is retiring at the end of June but is still coaching into his late 60's. He won 2 Vanier Cups back to back in 1984 & 85, I believe with the U of C Dinos. From everything I heard about him, he was a tiger on the field & loved to crash & bang. He's been coaching football since the late 1990's.

One of Tyler's teammates back in high school is now the HC of the University of Regina. Another friend of his who was a qb for another HS team in Calgary is now the OC at the University of Saskatchewan. A former bantam teammate is also DC at the U of C. There others I just can't remember.

My response to the, "If you can't play then coach" BS is the people who say that are people who can't play OR coach. They'd have a hard time even managing a pee wee team. None of these guys should be made to feel like they're somehow faiures because they coach. It's just a natural progression for all of them. 

Edited 6 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[Mark H.]

Thanks @SpeedFlex27. It's better coming from you.

[Fatty Liver]

NFL Canada awards youth football programs $75,000 through inaugural Forward Pass contribution

https://3downnation.com/2025/02/25/nfl-canada-awards-youth-football-programs-75000-through-inaugural-program/

Notta lotta money, can't see why the CFL can't do things like this.  $75k split 3 ways, one of the teams that received a $25k donation was the North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club.

[bluto]

Here is CFL.ca 's Way-Too-Early Power Rankings:

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/02/24/the-way-too-early-amsoil-power-rankings-are-here/

 

And here is CFL.ca 's critique of its own Way-Too-Early Power Rankings:

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/02/25/everything-wrong-with-the-way-too-early-amsoil-power-rankings/

 

 

[rebusrankin]

I'll add on to @SpeedFlex27 post. Many gym teachers are former USPORTS athletes, former jr hockey players etc.