Blue Bombers add trio to scouting staff

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Blue Bombers add trio to scouting staff

WINNIPEG, MB., January 10, 2025 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the club has added three scouts with extensive Canadian Football League backgrounds in Jim Jauch, Eric Deslauriers and Brock Sunderland.

 All three will hold the titles of Senior Director of Player Personnel.

"All three of these individuals have experience in scouting and finding talented football players," said General Manager Kyle Walters. "We are very pleased to add them all to our scouting group, having them work closely with Danny McManus, and we are already looking forward to training camp in May."

JIM JAUCH

Jauch joins the Blue Bombers after spending the last three years with the B.C. Lions as their Director of U.S. Scouting. Jauch is the son of former Blue Bombers player and head coach Ray Jauch (1978-82 as head coach) and played five years in the CFL with Calgary (1989), Edmonton (1990-91) and Hamilton (1992-93) where he also played with his brother Joey.

After his playing days Jauch became a college scout with the San Diego Chargers in 1994, joining the Cleveland Browns in 2006, where he was then promoted to Associate Director of College and Pro Scouting, a position he held until 2010. Jauch returned to the Chargers and worked with them from 2010-14 before joining the New York Jets as a National Scout until 2018. He then returned to Canada to become the Director of Pro Scouting with the Toronto Argonauts before heading to B.C.

ERIC DESLAURIERS

Deslauriers comes to Winnipeg after serving as the Senior Director of Football Operations/Player Personnel with the Montreal Alouettes. Deslauriers played nine seasons in the CFL, all with the Alouettes, after being selected by the club in the first round, seventh overall, in the 2007 CFL Draft.

 A native of Calgary who grew up in Quebec, Deslauriers brings experience in several areas, including in the evaluation of Canadian players for the CFL Draft and in pro scouting.

BROCK SUNDERLAND

Sunderland has extensive CFL management experience, having most recently served as the General Manager of the Edmonton Elks from 2017-21. The product of Great Falls, Montana first came north to the CFL as a regional/advance scout for the Alouettes (2004-05) before becoming Montreal's Director of Scouting, a position he held through 2007.

He then joined the New York Jets as a Pro Scout through 2012 before serving as the Ottawa RedBlacks Assistant GM from 2013-16. Sunderland was part of the staff that helped the RedBlacks capture the 2016 Grey Cup championship before heading to Edmonton.

[Blueforlife]

Anyone know these names?

[dd]

Pretty solid additions to our scouting team. Our talent pipelines look to be in good hands.

[markf]

And The beat goes on....

2016 Montreal ...... Deslaurier

"His new duties will comprise, among other things, of analyzing and evaluating all the talent for the upcoming CFL Canadian Draft. The former Eastern Michigan University Eagle will also be responsible for advance scouting once the season gets underway.

Deslauriers was also a pilar for the Together at school with the Alouettes program, reaching thousands of kids throughout Quebec schools, helping them make the right decisions and to stay in school.

2019 MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes announced Wednesday that they have promoted Éric Deslauriers, who was Coordinator of Player personnel in 2019, to Director of Football Operations. "

2024 Montreal not renewing  Deslauriers.:

"The native of Gatineau, Que. won two Grey Cups as a player and one as a member of Montreal's personnel department.

The Alouettes finished atop the East Division this past season at 12-5-1 before being upset by the Toronto Argonauts in the East Final by a score of 30-28."

"Yeah let's fire that guy who was a success story for us". Seems a Dumb move by them. 

And Good for us. Kind of reminds me of  the Mike Miller story. The way we got Mike.

[Blue In BC]

Anyone know these names?

Are you kidding?  These are excellent additions with extensive knowledge.

[Blueforlife]

Are you kidding?  These are excellent additions with extensive knowledge.

I was simply asking if anyone knew much about them, I don't know the names personally but yes the bios read well.  Just like when we get new players in, I like to know if folks have anything to add about who we got.  Wealth of knowledge on here, simply asking for more info for those in the know.....

Thanks for those that chimed in or provided more info.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I was simply asking if anyone knew much about them, I don't know the names personally but yes the bios read well.  Just like when we get new players in, I like to know if folks have anything to add about who we got.  Wealth of knowledge on here, simply asking for more info for those in the know.....

Mostly behind the scenes guys, so I doubt anyone knows much about them with the exception of Sunderland who caused a few sparks to fly when he was the Esks GM. He fell off a cliff, can't recall a GM having to start again almost from the bottom.

[Blueforlife]

Mostly behind the scenes guys, so I doubt anyone knows much about them with the exception of Sunderland who caused a few sparks to fly when he was the Esks GM. He fell off a cliff, can't recall a GM having to start again almost from the bottom.

I was wondering about that but sounds about right when I seen the Elks referenced.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I was wondering about that but sounds about right when I seen the Elks referenced.

A quick Google search reveals Sunderland is most famous for firing Jason Maas and banning Joey Moss from the Esks. dressing room.

[BBRT]

Anyone know these names?

Yeah they are all very well known. The one I sort of know is Jim Jauch - Ray's son - and I sort of know Ray as I am getting up there in years and actually went to a number of University of Iowa games when Ray was a star HB there. That was late 1950's and I was a letter carrier for the Des Moines Register. We got to go to Iowa games if we sold enough papers. I got to see Ray and Kenny Ploen, Bobby Jeter and a bunch of future CFL stars - long before I knew there was a CFL.

[theaardvark]

Wow.  Losing Goveia was a blow, but replacing him with this trio really makes me wonder about front office $SMS.  Either Ted was making an awful lot, or we found a loophole...

Grabbing guys from other organizations seems to sometimes end up with teams chasing after neg list trades, or at least watching neg list cuts.  A guy might be a fav of someone who has moved on, so gets cut by the old Org in favour of a new guy fav, and the old guy snags him for his new org.

If only the CFL were transparent in these things.

Still no idea why salaries, contracts, neg lists aren't all public.  Would really help with the league's fantasy/gambling potential. 

[Blue In BC]

Wow.  Losing Goveia was a blow, but replacing him with this trio really makes me wonder about front office $SMS.  Either Ted was making an awful lot, or we found a loophole...

Grabbing guys from other organizations seems to sometimes end up with teams chasing after neg list trades, or at least watching neg list cuts.  A guy might be a fav of someone who has moved on, so gets cut by the old Org in favour of a new guy fav, and the old guy snags him for his new org.

If only the CFL were transparent in these things.

Still no idea why salaries, contracts, neg lists aren't all public.  Would really help with the league's fantasy/gambling potential. 

IIRC we lost another operations person that went to Hamilton as well. His name escapes me at the moment.

[Jesse]

IIRC we lost another operations person that went to Hamilton as well. His name escapes me at the moment.

Cyril Penn. Which was an unexpected loss.

[GOLDMEMBER]

All sound like fantastic additions. I'm familiar with all three names, whether it be through playing or managing on other teams.

Great job.

Hopefully these signings prove fruitful in this year's season

[theaardvark]

So, we added intel from BC, Mtl and Edm, scouting should be interesting, each of these guys must have a list of names, neg listed or not. 

Much deeper pool of scouting than we've ever had, and we've done pretty OK up until now...