Alouettes' Jason Maas named CFL coach of the year

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VANCOUVER — Jason Maas keeps proving the Montreal Alouettes right for making him their head coach in 2023.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cfl.ca/2024/11/14/alouettes-jason-maas-named-cfl-coach-of-the-year
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Corey Mace, robbed.

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Good for Jason, sorry Corey. I find however, that winning the Coach of the Year award is bit like touching, say the Prince of Wales trophy before the Stanley Cup playoffs. Superstition, I know.

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I don’t think Mace was robbed. While, in my opinion, the Riders had the most improved coaching staff in the League from 2023 to 2024, the award isn’t for “Most Improved”. I’m happy with the way Mace is taking the team, but they (and he) aren’t there yet.

For the record, my vote for CoY (if I had one) wouldn’t have gone to Maas either, it would have gone to O’Shea.

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I agree that Maas should have taken the award over Mace. Mace was most improved and certainly had his team playing better down the stretch than Maas, but I can’t get past the lack of discipline Saskatchewan showed as a team this year. That quality is usually attributed to coaching.

I would also agree that O’Shea was more deserving of the award than either of them. He has won it before when blessed with a clearly superior roster to any team, but that wasn’t the case this year. In the first 4 games he had to integrate 13 new starters into the line up and his team suffered many serious injuries to top if not star players. After a 2-6 start the floundering Bombers were facing what then appeared to be a juggernaut BC Lions team. The Bombers dominated 25-0 and never looked back. I have never seen O’Shea pull off a better coaching job this year.

It could also be argued that Dinwiddie was a more worthy candidate than Maas. He was without his QB 1 for half the year with the subsequent fallout accompanying that and unlike Maas he had his team humming down the stretch.

It is what it is, but those would have been my choices in this category.

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Maas was a loser for EE, so was Maccocia

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And with that, the same could be said for Maas winning the award (he did not) last season after guiding the Als to straight wins second half of last season along with the playoffs.

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Jason should have won last year, agree Tony ,he wins it this year even though O’Shea is the best coach in the league even when not nominated .
Cheering for the East knowing B’s will be dancing in the endzones all game , sighhh…

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I agree that Maas did an awesome job last year, especially when you take into account the playoff run and Grey Cup, but the Alouettes did not have a better end of season record than the Argonauts and 2023 CoY Dinwiddie. The second half (last 9 regular season games) records were Alouettes 5-4 and Argonauts 8-1.

With the perspective of the playoffs, it’s easy to say (and I agree) Maas did a better job than Dinwiddie in 2023, but the CoY voters don’t have the perspective of the playoffs.

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Should have been Maaas vs. Mik O’Shea w/ Maas winning. O’Shea got off to a rotten start before the team came together and rallied for an 11-7 record, managing to retrieve 1st in West

Whenever a guy like Maas or Mace are awarded COY honours, the winner always seems to have a sheepish look on their face. Rightfully, so.

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Like the NHL - most awards go to teams that don’t make the championships.

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Yes you are correct.

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should be the female ex-conditioning coach who was a victim of Kelly’s d-baggery, and spoke up about it.

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