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    Former Stampeder receiver Jabari Arthur is the new University of Calgary Dinos receivers coach.

    “I’m like a rookie that’s just excited to get on the field and run around a little bit, that’s definitely me,” said Jabari Arthur, the Dinos’ new receivers coach. ...
    Arthur, who played seven seasons in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders (he was briefly a Winnipeg Blue Bomber), assumes the position vacated by Justin Chapdelaine, who joins his father Jacques’ staff as receivers coach with the Montreal Alouettes.
    “I’m really, really fortunate that I had a chance to come in and do spring ball,” the 34-year-old said. “But just like the new guys are coming in and everything is fast-paced and they’re going to have work really hard for the game to slow down, it’s kind of the same thing for me also. It’s my first go-around ever as a real coach with a unit and learning the offence. So it was a little bit fast-paced for me, but the coaching staff have been absolutely awesome with me.

    “But the preparation … I couldn’t even imagine how much goes into one practice. That’s something I’m really enjoying, I feel like I’m back in the hunt again, chasing something.”
    The timing of this opportunity was quite serendipitous.
    “I was jogging off a football field and physically ran into the offensive coordinator, Ryan Sheahan,” Arthur said. “I was about to say ‘watch where you’re going’. But we started talking, we e-mailed each other, he said there was an opportunity here so I essentially said I would love to have the opportunity to coach with you guys and here I am. Living here in the city, playing with the Stamps, pretty much sharing the same field, they’re almost like our little brothers. We have a lot of guys on the Stamps who played with the Dinos so I’ve always followed them. They’re a great organization, one of the top in the country every year, and I didn’t hesitate.”
    http://calgaryherald.com/sports/foot...ns-dinos-staff

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    Article on the gap between CIS haves and have-nots.
    http://www.cisblog.ca/2017/08/footba...top-until.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by argolio View Post
    Article on the gap between CIS haves and have-nots.
    http://www.cisblog.ca/2017/08/footba...top-until.html
    Nothing better than having both CFL and CIS football seasons on the go at the same time!

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    CHCHtv announced that they'll have a weekly half hour show on OUA football starting this Thursday night at 11:30pm, repeated at 1pm on Saturday, and hosted by Jim Mullin.

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    Sportsnet has ranked the top 50 CIS players all-time at the url below. While I disagree with quite a few of the rankings, the one that I dispute the most is ranking Mike O'Shea 45th. Even their own comment on O'Shea that "His final season at Guelph (1992) might be the best year from a CIS defender" doesn't make sense in terms of their ranking.

    Mike O’Shea | Linebacker | Guelph 1989-92When you think of Guelph football, you think of Mike O’Shea — tough, resilient and daring on special teams. When you look at his body of work at both levels of the Canadian game, you could make a compelling argument that he is the greatest Canadian defender of all-time. O’Shea still holds the team record for career sacks with 19 and ranks fourth in total career tackles with 310. His final season at Guelph (1992) might be the best year from a CIS defender — his accolades that season included First-Team OUAA All-Star, CIAU All-Canadian and OUAA Defensive Player of the Year, and he led the Gryphs to a Yates Cup. He would go on to play 271 regular season CFL games and win three Grey Cups along the way. Pat Tracey, O’Shea’s defensive coordinator at Guelph, said: “He led the team in QB sacks but also had the speed and range to drop into coverage and play on the top running backs”


    http://www.sportsnet.ca/usports/top-50-cis-football-players-of-vanier-cup-era/

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    Montreal Carabins continue to lead the national rankings while Waterloo has made its first appearance on the list since 2007.

    Montreal (3-0) received 18 of 19 first-place votes and 189 points from the Football Reporters of Canada panel to remain comfortably ahead of the reigning Vanier Cup champion Laval Rouge et Or (2-1), who collected 166 points.
    For the second week in a row, the lone first-place nod to elude the Carabins went to the third-ranked Calgary Dinos (3-0), who tallied 151 total points.
    Rounding out the new top 10 are the No. 4 Western Mustangs (4-0 / 147 points / no change), No. 5 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks (3-0 / 105 / no change), No. 6 Regina Rams (2-1 / 90 / no change), No. 7 UBC Thunderbirds (2-1 / 62 / up three positions), No. 8 McMaster Marauders (2-1 / 61 / up one), No. 9 Waterloo (4-0 / 25 / previously unranked) and No. 10 Saskatchewan Huskies (2-1 / 14 / down three).
    http://3downnation.com/2017/09/20/us...me-since-2007/

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    Good to see one of the 'have-nots' making a name for themselves.
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    York is still Yorking, but Waterloo has come out of nowhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArgoGabe22 View Post
    York is still Yorking, but Waterloo has come out of nowhere.
    I plan on making the short drive to see either the Warriors or Golden Hawks this season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArgoGabe22 View Post
    York is still Yorking, but Waterloo has come out of nowhere.
    While the Carabins remain #1, York stopped Yorking for at least this week.

    http://3downnation.com/2017/09/25/us...abins-stopped/

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    Nothing stops a losing streak better than a game against the Varsity Blues.


    And I see that Waterloo came back down to earth at the hands of the Golden Hawks. Ouch!

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    According to 3downnation, the Ontario University Football Conference is considering whether it should introduce non-contact practices.

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    Panda game on CHCHtv in Hamilton this afternoon starting at 1pm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by argofandave View Post
    Panda game on CHCHtv in Hamilton this afternoon starting at 1pm.
    For those who've attended Carleton U or Ottawa Zoo (guess which one I went to) this is the game of the year as the expected 24,000+ fans in attendance attests.

    https://www.cfl.ca/2017/09/29/game-welcome-panda/

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    The Carleton Ravens edged the Ottawa Gee Gees 33-30 in double overtime for their fourth consecutive win in front of a record crowd of 24,420,

    http://charlatan.ca/2017/09/carleton...game-in-a-row/

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    Pretty good game, except for the endless TV technical difficulties.

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    UBC Thunderbird HC Blake Nill considers junior Trivel Pinto a potential #1 overall draft pick when the 2019 CFL draft occurs. Nill sees Pinto as a key player in the team's drive for a playoff spot.

    “He had told me personally and it was great,” Pinto, the T-Birds’ star receiver and return man, said of coach Nill’s declarations that Pinto could be the top pick in the 2019 CFL draft, “and then he started using it in the media and I was like, ‘Whoa, he really believes that.’ “It caught me off guard when he started doing that. He really does think that highly of me. You want your coach to believe in you. It’s a good feeling.”
    Pinto, a third-year pass catcher from Brampton, Ont., is one of the players that Nill will need to come through down the stretch if the TBirds are going to do damage in the U Sports football playoffs.
    UBC (3-2) has three games left in the Canada West regular season heading into a Saturday visit (6 p.m.) to the Saskatchewan Huskies (2-3), and Nill’s bunch are tied with the Regina Rams (3-2) for second place, trailing the Calgary Dinos (5-0). The top four teams make the Canada West post-season. ...
    Pinto tops UBC in receptions (27), reception yardage (357), touchdown catches (three) and allpurpose yards (632) despite missing a game with an undisclosed injury. He’s third in Canada West in all-purpose yards per game (158) and sixth in reception yards per game (89.3).
    “He’s a pretty special kid,” Nill said of the six-foot, 195-pound Pinto. “Every team is gunning for him. They know what he brings and he’s still making things happen. He’s one of the better players in the country and it’s up to us, as coaches, to manage him well. It’s up to us, as coaches, to match him up well. We do that, and you’re going to see even more out of him.”
    Pinto is one of the holdovers from UBC’s 2015 Vanier Cup national champions. Another was supposed to be receiver/return man Marcus Davis, but Nill confirmed this week that he’s been shut down for the season with a left knee injury. It’s the second straight campaign that he’s had his year come to an early end due to an issue with that knee.
    https://www.pressreader.com/canada/v...82209421080219

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerrym View Post
    UBC Thunderbird HC Blake Nill considers junior Trivel Pinto a potential #1 overall draft pick when the 2019 CFL draft occurs. Nill sees Pinto as a key player in the team's drive for a playoff spot.



    https://www.pressreader.com/canada/v...82209421080219
    I was impressed by Pinto in that UBC Vanier win season a couple of years back - good receiver and returner.

    IF he puts up some real good testing #s at the CFL Combine in his draft year, he could be a #1 overall type prospect, but lots of time till then, and lots of guys could emerge as top prospects by then - most likely an O-lineman would be higher rated as per CFL GOB standard thinking. When will that Ohio QB Rourke be up for the CFL draft ? - a Canadian QB going #1 overall ? = pigs will be flying somewhere first. ;o)

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    The top four teams kept their rankings last week, but the following teams all moved up one place: McMaster moved up to fifth, UBC to sixth and Guelph to ninth. Guelph and St. Mary's moved down.

    Calgary needed 16 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to edge visiting Manitoba 36-27. UBC was outscored 23-6 by Saskatchewan in the final frame but held on for a 29-25 home victory. Regina escaped with a 58-55 decision against Alberta following a pair of overtime shootout sessions in Edmonton.
    However, the most unexpected result of the weekend came in Guelph, where the Gryphons held defending OUA champion Laurier to 186 yards of total offence en route to a 24-14 triumph. It marked the Golden Hawks’ first loss to a conference opponent other than Western since a 30-21 setback against McMaster on Oct. 17, 2015.
    http://3downnation.com/2017/10/18/us...h-on-the-rise/

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    Montreal's loss to Laval over the weekend has changed the ranking at the top of the CIS list.

    After spending the last four weeks in second position behind the Montreal Carabins, Calgary (7-0) moves up to No. 1 in the new media poll after receiving nine of 17 first-place votes and 159 points from the Football Reporters of Canada panel. The Dinos had last topped the national rankings in 2015, when they dominated the last eight polls of the campaign from mid-September to early November.
    The second-ranked Laval Rouge et Or (6-1) and No. 3 Western Mustangs (8-0) also move up one spot this week thanks to 156 and 136-point tallies, respectively. Laval, with six, and Western, with two, also split the remaining first-place nods.
    Montreal (5-1), which had topped six straight rankings dating back to Sept. 12, drops all the way to No. 4 this week following its first loss of the season, to archrival Laval. The Carabins merited 126 points from the FRC.
    Rounding out the ninth top 10 of 2017 are the No. 5 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks (6-2 / 95 points / up two positions), No. 6 UBC Thunderbirds (5-2 / 86 / no change), No. 7 McMaster Marauders (6-2 / 56 / down two), No. 8 Regina Rams (4-3 / 42 / no change), No. 9 Guelph Gryphons (5-3 / 40 / no change), as well as the No. 10 Acadia Axemen (6-2 / 21), who join the elite club for the first time this fall.
    http://calgaryherald.com/sports/foot...to-roughriders

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