To strengthen his team’s assault Corey Mace has formally announced the addition of another terrifying…
This week, Corey Mace received the opportunity he had been waiting for through a phone call.
“I was there when (general manager Jeremy O’Day) called and said, ‘Hey, I’m in the team meeting room and I’m standing at the podium and I can’t unsee you.'” “Don’t start talking like that unless you mean it,” I remarked. When Mace was officially introduced as the new head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday.
It was jubilant. There was a party. It’s still getting to me. I tried to put myself in this situation even now, and I’ve tried to put myself in this situation before, and it lives up to everything.
“It feels incredible.”
At the Mosaic media conference, Mace sat behind a Roughriders helmet.Stadium, a 37-year-old native of Port Moody, British Columbia, paid tribute to a former linebacker for the Roughriders.
He thought back to the day Brooks Findlay had given the Mace family tickets to a Vancouver CFL game between the Saskatchewan Rough Riders and the B.C. Lions. Mace also received an autographed card from Findlay.
“I used to dream about being a player and stare at that card a lot,” Mace remarked. “But this does mean something to me because I was looking at this (the Riders) logo for a long time as a young man.”
The Roughriders hired Mace on Wednesday night to take Craig Dickenson’s position as head coach. Following the 2023 season, in which Saskatchewan finished with a second straight 6-12-0 record, Dickenson’s contract was not extended.
For the previous two seasons, Mace was the Toronto Argonauts’coordinator of the defense. Prior to that, he served as the defensive line coach for the Calgary Stampeders, a position the former player-turned-coach took after retiring in 2015.
He has three Grey Cup championships under his belt: one in 2014 as a player with Calgary, one in 2018 as a coach with the Stamps, and one in 2022 as a member of the Argos coaching staff.
