Blue Bombers announce coaching changes

[RebusRankin]

Are you forgetting Hogan was our RB coach for a long time before his OC year?  Brady has spoken highly of Hogan as RB coach in every presser these last 2 months.

Thus Hogan was already a good RB coach.  Nothing says he can't get even better as RB coach.  PLUS maybe he'll get better as an OC, with more careful grooming, and have another shot at it in 4 years (possibly with another team).  Or maybe he'll be a RB coach forever.  And that might be just fine.

I disagree with the premise that he'll become better and work his way up as a coach. Some guys never do. Reinbold was a very good ST coach, not so much anything else.

[Jesse]

I disagree with the premise that he'll become better and work his way up as a coach. Some guys never do. Reinbold was a very good ST coach, not so much anything else.

I don't think anyone (aside from one person) has suggested he will.

But he's perfectly fine as an RB coach.

[GOLDMEMBER]

I don't think anyone (aside from one person) has suggested he will.

But he's perfectly fine as an RB coach.

I tend to agree.

As bad as he was at OC he gain valuable experience. This can be a asset next season.

[theaardvark]

I wish Hogan had been let go but suspect he had a two year deal and this is a Coaches cap issue.

I don't think retaining Hogan has anything to do with this, but rather the fact that BO20 is a league leader with Hogan as coach.  He just got promoted beyond his level of competence last year.

[theaardvark]

Coaches cap.  Period.  Whatever we contracted Hogan for (maybe $125k? wild guess) we'd be on the hook for in the cap.  We already were up against the cap, so where on earth do we get the cap space to keep paying a fired Hogan AND hire/woo a legit OC and pay him $250k?

If you want teams to be able to ditch coaches mid-season then you have to get rid of the cap, or the dumb "you must keep paying them" rule.

We anted up, then went all in, and we had to ride that hand to the very end.

Sure, cap plays in.  But we had a replacement on the staff, under contract.  We could have promoted him, and done this same demotion, week 4.  By then, Jackson would be up to speed, having missed camp.

Would Hogan have taken a demotion and pay cut then, or just walked away with the balance of his deal?  Would have been a conversation that should have been made.

Who knows, maybe it did.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Sounds like mostly O'Shea's idea to lead Jake into coaching as with Mike Miller.