Just read on 900chml.com that Dan Rambo - former GM in Ottawa and Saskatchewan, and former scout for the Broncos - is joining the Ticats as Director of Player Personnel.
Good hire. This is the guy they should have brought on board in the first place for the GM job IMO. When a team needs rebuilding you need somebody who's been there done it.
What a joke. Marcel has done a great job of getting these guys in hear. I love how the blue team fans have to come to our forum to discuss football. At least we know there is one or two blue team fans around.
This move makes perfect sense to me. With the Ticats finally having an owner with "deeper than usual" pockets and each team in the league having to abide by the new salary management system, it is great to see the Ticats are willing to separate themselves from their competition by hiring more and more experienced and knowledgeable football minds to help find and evaluate new talent.
Doh…but I stand by my comments and I don’t care who knows.
Marcel may one day be a good GM, but he’s learning on the job as far as I’m concerned.
But for the record I’m a CFL fan first and Argo fan second. With that in mind I want to see the Ticats become a competetive team and Bob Young deserves one for pulling the team out of its financial hole. IMO he now has two good football men in place in Rambo and Taaffe.
Cheers
Wise words there, DB. Any organization is only as successful as its leaders. I feel much more confident in the future with these men in place than in many previous years.
Dan Rambo was just on Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown. Scott Mitchell approached him about the job. He apparently would have been the GM in Ottawa had the Palmer group been granted the franchise there.
He kind of dodged the question when McCown asked him how far away this team was from being a winner. He said the team is still learning how to win and that they have a lot of young guys running around making mistakes, but they're only two points out of a playoff spot. (Well really three as Edmonton has 5 points)
When he met with Bob Young he was impressed by Bob's committment and probably the salary offer. lol But he has turned down other positions in the CFL so he must have liked what he saw and heard.
I think he will prove to be a great hire. Hamilton now has somebody in place like BC (O'Billovich) and Toronto (Greg Mohns) who can keep finding those talented players that are available.