Montreal Alouettes Make Football Operation Adjustments

Originally posted on CFL on FanNation | By Anthony Miller | Last updated 1/14/24

The Grey Cup champions Montreal Alouettes have focused on bringing back players and coaches from last season’s team. Montreal also took time to look over their football operations and have made some changes to the staff.

The team announced that Pier-Yves Lavergne is the new assistant general manager, Marcel Desjardins returns to the Als as special assistant to the general manager and Jean-Marc Edme was named senior personnel executive.

“With our recent successes, I am obviously very pleased with the work of my team,” Montreal Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia said in a statement. “I am excited about the return of Marcel Desjardins to the Alouettes and Lavergne and Edme are happy about the challenge ahead, they fully deserves this vote of confidence.”

The architects of our championship team are back & we’ve added an important piece to our football operations staff!

Details: https://t.co/9IxwuGI3qm #Alouettes pic.twitter.com/2w8y4tQ792
— Alouettes de Montréal (@MTLAlouettes) January 11, 2024

Lavergne was hired by the team in 2022 to head up their scouting as director of national scouting. He previously worked with the Ottawa Redblacks in their football operations staff, winning a Grey Cup with then general manager Desjardins.

Desjardins has been the general manager for the Redblacks and Hamilton Tiger-Cats in his career, winning a Grey Cup with Ottawa in 2016. The Redblacks made the Grey Cup three times in the nine seasons Desjardins was there.

This will be his third stint with Montreal after starting with the team in 1999 as their assistant director of football operations. Desjardins eventually became assistant general manager from 2002-06, as the team won the Grey Cup in 2002. After leaving the team in 2006, he returned in the same position for the Alouettes from 2008-12, winning two more Grey Cups with the team.

Edme joined Montreal in 2022 as the team’s director of pro personnel. His CFL career began in 2007 with the Tiger-Cats, while also working with Montreal and Ottawa during that span, winning four total Grey Cups. He played a key role in the construction of the roster claiming the Grey Cup last season, as his focus now shifts to finding American players in college and the pros.

Montreal announced last month that the team was keeping the entire coaching staff for the 2024 season.

This article first appeared on CFL on FanNation and was syndicated with permission.

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