BOMBERS HIRE QB COACH

Blue Bombers Head Coach Mike O’Shea today announced today the appointment of Gene Dahlquist as the club’s Quarterbacks Coach. Dahlquist joins the Bombers with more than 30 years of coaching experience, and brings with him a long resume of offensive expertise.

His coaching career has including offensive coordinator positions at the University of Oregon, Boise State, Iowa State, Illinois, and the University of Texas. He was most recently the Quarterbacks Coach for the Omaha Nighthawks of the UFL, working with current Bombers Offensive Coordinator Marcel Bellefeuille.

While at Boise State, Dahlquist helped the Broncos capture five Big Sky Conference titles, along with a Division I-AA national championship title in 1980.

As the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Illinois, Dahlquist twice saw his offense lead the Big Ten in passing. During Dahlquist’s tenure, the team appeared in four bowl games in four years and earned a Big Ten co-championship title in 1989, while he groomed the first overall pick in 1990’s NFL Draft, quarterback Jeff George.

During his six-season stint as the offensive coordinator at the University of Texas, the Longhorns captured three conference titles and produced some of the best offenses in school history.

Other coaching stops include Idaho State, Utah and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Since leaving the NCAA, Dahlquist spent three seasons as the Head Coach of the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe from 2001-2003. Since then, he has worked at Football University, coaching quarterbacks prior to the NFL combine workouts,  and has served as an NFL personnel consultant.