COMMENTARY: NO THANKS
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The dominoes have fallen in the CFL coaching ranks.
Some of them we didn’t even know were standing.
We went into the off-season thinking there was only one coaching vacancy to fill – Saskatchewan – but then on Tuesday Hamilton Tiger-Cats boss Orlondo Steinauer announced he’s giving up the head coaching duties and named Ed Hervey as GM. The head coach was to be named later.
24 hours later the new Ticats head coach turned out to be Scott Milanovich, who was being promoted from offensive coordinator.
It was a headscratcher for yours truly because, if I got this right, Milanovich interviewed for that vacant Rider position that eventually went to Toronto assistant Corey Mace.
Why would Milanovich fly across the country to interview for a job he had no intention of taking?
But I get it, because I’ve been through the exact same thing.
In 2015 I got a call from TSN. The voice on the other end of the line said “Rod, how would you like to join the TSN family?” I told him that I’d been waiting 20 years for that call but it sounded like there was a catch.
He continued by saying, “We’d like you to be the Voice of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and morning man on the brand new TSN 1150 radio in Hamilton. You’ve been in Saskatchewan forever so you must be dying to get out of there!”
Well, that just pissed me off. I told him the conversation was over. He continued though, saying that the Riders were to visit the Ticats in a couple weeks and would I consider meeting face-to-face, and getting a tour of the city, Tim Hortons Field and the new station?
I said sure but I had no designs on leaving Saskatchewan. It was my home and if I was to leave, it wouldn’t be for any other CFL job. (HELLO?!)
We did that interview and I was wined and dined by Ticats bosses Bob Young and Scott Mitchell. But nothing ever came of it and I wondered why I did it in the first place.
This situation with Saskatchewan and Scott Milanovich sounds like no different.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
He would have attended the roughrider interview for 2 reasons. First to make it known he is not working as an offensive coordinator. It also let’s hamilton know he isn’t coming back to that role. So he won. As for attending interviews. It may not be the right timing but that contact is made down the road when a job is actually needed. My guess is milanovich knows reynolds/O’Day have about 35 months left in their fantasy football careers so he wasn’t going to come to this coaching graveyard. I said from the beginning milanovich would use this interview to… Read more »
O’Day is on a very short leash. If the Roughriders don’t produce, look for Reynolds to save his own auz and dump the gm and head coach somewhere in the not too distant future.
Ed Hervey is the new gm, Scott Milanovich new head ciach of the Hamilton-Eat’em Raw- Tiger Cats. Orlando Steinhauer now concentrates on his duties as team President. Hamilton Tiger Cats have all the best coaching management personnel in place but you have to wonder is Orlando Steinhauer really done with his head coaching career, one would think not.