Mark Kilam’s phone exploded with 107 text messages on Monday when news broke of his new job as head coach of the Edmonton Elks.
Never shy to share advice or opinion, Buono outright rejects the notion the non-player operations cap is behind the move to hire more Canadian head coaches and Canadian general managers.
“That’s asinine,” he said. “I don’t buy it. When you open a position up, there’ll be as many American coaches or American personnel people wanting the job as there are Canadians.”
And we forget too how many Canadians are playing in the NFL, and coaching in the NFL.
With all those players? There have to be coaches to help them get where they are going.
To get to more than half the head coaches are Canadian…is a testament to how good Canadian grass roots football is.
You are correct, Squishy. Both Mark Kilam and Wally Buono raved about the coaches in Canada and the way they develop players for success throughout the pipleine all the way to the Canadian university system, the NCAA, the CFL and NFL.
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Not just that, 4 of the last 5 coaches to win the Grey Cup? Canadian…
Can’t be 4 of 5. Dinwiddie and Maas aren’t Canadian.
Never let facts get in the way of a good story. 
Opps…from where he started I always thought he was Canadian…