Le Rouge et Or will be able to rely on a private guide in Regina.
Offensive line coach Carl Brennan will return to Regina for the Mitchell Cup, having held the same role with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2005.
“It’s fun to go back to Regina even if we won’t have time to visit,” said Brennan. I imagine the city has changed quite a bit and I’m going to discover the new stadium which wasn’t built when I was there. Taylor Field made way for Mosaic Stadium in July 2017.
Brennan will find some familiar faces. “I will surely come across Corey Mace (the head coach of the Riders) and Marc Mueller (the offensive coordinator of the Riders) who I knew when I went to the Calgary Stampeders camp in 2017,” he said. . The Riders’ equipment manager is also still in office.”
Ready to reconnect with the cold temperatures of the Prairies? “It wasn’t warm the winter I spent in Regina after leaving Calgary,” he said.
After the Rouge et Or won the 2003 Vanier Cup, Brennan made the jump to the CFL as offensive line coach. He spent a year with the Stampeders (2004) and Roughriders (2005) before joining the Edmonton Elks (2006 and 2007).
Brennan returned to the Rouge et Or in 2008 as running backs coach. Two years later, he returned to his position as head of the offensive line.
A Siberian cold
Speaking of temperature, the forecast is quite a bit warmer than when the Rouge et Or last passed through Saskatchewan. The 2006 Vanier Cup against the Saskatchewan Huskies was played in freezing cold temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius. Due to the cold, balloons were exploding in flight during practice during the week.
The 13,000 Huskies fans filled the stands at Griffiths Stadium despite everything to support their favorites who lost by a score of 13-8 in a match where Guillaume Allard-Caméus scored the only touchdown for the Rouge et Or.
For the Mitchell Cup, the mercury is forecast to reach 1 degree Celsius with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Revenge, a dish best served cold
The Rouge et Or thus avenged the 29-27 failure suffered against the same Huskies a year earlier on Saskatoon turf at the Mitchell Cup. Laval won the 4th Vanier Cup in its history and the 3rd in four years, becoming the second team in history to achieve this feat after the Western Mustangs in 1974, 1976 and 1977.
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