THEY only got caught going over 17K on a VERY, VERY, weak audit system. They knew grey cup money was coming.
Everyone knows that they were over at least a million. Pay players housing, travel, lodging,costs and much more.
CFL wanted riders to win at home and it was a good thing. But CFL people know that Grey Cup host is given more
leeway.
Have to agree with that - and Chamblin was not a particularly good coach - certainly not as DC in Hamilton, and this season’s D in Regina speaks for itself.
Not sure who showed they are off their rocker more this week. Chamblain and his coaching decisions or this[b][1].
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Agree with you on Chamblin’s arrogance and it was evident in the first game he coached when the Riders played the Ticats. He had about 3-4 years as a position coach and one mediocre season as DC in Hamilton. Doubt he would have been retained there but he was offered the HC gig with the Riders. He won the GC BECAUSE he let the coordinators do their job - well that and giving Taman a “shopping list” of players to hire! Somehow he seemed to feel that with that GC win and his COY award that he was better than the people he had hired who had YEARS more experience. As you mention, EVERY team deals with injuries but most find a way to win at least a few games. NO coach worth his salt uses injuries as an excuse for losing! I’ll be surprised if we see CC back in the CFL any time soon.
Hot rumour is that Chamblin will take his COY award :roll: and be a "GREAT COACH" in Pee Wee League Ball 
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Pee Wee champions is more his speed anyway.....So tell me again just how Chamblin was deemed the BEST COACH in the league in 2013 ? What a joke !!!!!! 
:thup: The winless record was one thing and to a certain extent if you look at the injuries and the close losses in that span you could almost overlook the record. I think what sealed his demise was the continued questionable coaching decisions and the way he answered questions. What I can figure out exactly is if he wanted out (as there are reports that he moved his family to Arizona prior to the start of the season) and was trying to force the Riders hand to fire him so he'd still get paid on his contract rather than quit? Or is he that arrogant that he thought the Grey Cup win a couple years ago made him untouchable?
Dyce will be interesting as HC, on the opposite side of the spectrum as Chamblin. Seems like one of the truly good guys in the league, everyone seems to love him. Best of luck to him.
No way… Just keep screwing the players and pay these clowns even more to wreck our game.
Aside from all of the conspiracy theories on cap abuse, unless there is some proof to say otherwise, the Riders were 17,000 over the cap, period. No smoking gun, just facts, any other theories or accusations don't fly.
The biggest thing I saw is that the Riders are a team that lost confidence, their problems in my opinion were mental, not physical. I still think that this has the potential to be a good football team, personnel wise but for whatever reason their heads weren't in it so the other heads had to roll.
Rod Pedersen hinted at the notion that Chamblin’s subversive actions may have been a deliberate attempt for dismissal.
the fact that he moved his family to Arizona prior to the start of this CFL season and reportedly let it be known within internal confines that he wished to coach stateside appears to corroborate this sentiment.
and just last year the Riders signed both Chamblin and Taman to 4 year GUARANTEED extensions (through 2017) meaning the club is on the hook for their high end salaries for the next 2.5 years.
Why clubs customarily sign long term iron clad agreements with coaches and execs seems beyond foolish considering the ongoing waste spent on terminated personnel.
…money that could have gone to the players, promotional/marketing departments, amenities, medical staff etc etc etc
in any event, with or without jobs, these two will not be feasting on beans anytime soon.
While those dots are easy to connect, especially since his behaviour and decision-making seemed completely illogical at times, going 0-9 doesn’t seem like a good strategy for getting work elsewhere.
I think this guy is Barry Switzer. Took on an already good team that all he had to do was guide for a while, but when it came time for some of the parts to be replaced, he couldn’t cope.
granted, although going 4-5 would not provide him an out either given he is just 2 seasons removed as a GC winning coach.
this way Chamblin is set to collect a nice stipend for the next 2.5 years while he couch surfs and/or pounds the pavement in the NCAA or elsewhere.
Someone stateside will pick him up at some point…not as a HC mind you but likely as an assistant/coordinator in a Division 2 or 3 school perhaps. (or Secondary School?)
Could be that the teams will now take a much closer look at Taman’s body of work in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan … and not in a good way. He’s been pretty efficient at stripping the Canadian content out of both teams, trading draft picks for American talent that could have been picked up in free agency here and down south. In the CFL, the team with the best supply of Canadian talent generally goes deepest in the playoffs. I think the Riders had a lot of trouble this year fielding the bare minimum of Canadians to start a game.
apparently, Darian Durant was the only player from the Riders to thank Taman and Chamblin on social media for their tenure in Riderville.
very telling indeed.
[b]NEWSTALK980 The GreenZone:Locker room: The team may have denied it today but we on the Green Zone know 100% there was discontent in the Riders locker room even acknowledging the coach needed to go.
I note the incredible silence from the players on twitter aside from Darian Durant being the only one who reached out and thanked both Taman and Chamblin. That’s a round of indifference if I’ve ever seen one.[/b]
Man I’ll say it is.
The silence is deafening. . . and speaks volumes.
Do you know if he stops being paid if he gets an NCAA gig of some sort (like a position coach or something)?
Bob Dice and Jeramy O'Day are only interim and good thing, no way are they long run head coach and management types. I'm sure their will be an active list and search of new staff and a complete overhaul at years end.
Winnipeg will be next, I can't believe that O'Shea has lasted this long and probably only because of Walters as GM and their relationship. If Winnipeg loses on Sunday to the Riders heads could roll in Winnipeg next?
To be fair, O’Shea inherited a mess, no Canadian depth or talent. You can’t just snap your fingers and have that instantly appear. His issue’s are, getting a Oline that is capable of keeping a QB healthy. The players love O’Shea and would do anything for him. Another issue is O’shea is too loyal to his OC . He needs to go …yesterday.
not that I am aware of CRF(re:NCAA) but to my scant knowledge CFL coaches who are terminated while still under contract are able to maintain full salary even if they accept a position with another CFL club for less money.
i.e. the club who terminated their employment must make up the difference for any wage discrepancy until the original contract expires.
It’s only breaking news if Mr Bungle breaks the story first on here
That was the deal when the Ticats let Cortez go. He landed with the Riders soon after but the Ticats were still on the hook for the difference in salary between what he made as Hamilton’s HC and Riders’ OC. I suspect that many contracts are structured that way but there certainly could be exceptions.