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BC Lions name Ed Hervey new GM, coach Buono to coach final season

BC Lions name Ed Hervey new GM, coach Buono to coach final season - image
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The B.C. Lions have a new general manager (GM), former Edmonton Eskimo player and GM Ed Hervey is taking on the new role at the CFL club.

Hervey is a 44-year-old California native and most recently was vice president of football operations and GM with the Edmonton Eskimos from 2013 to 2016.

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But Hervey’s hiring isn’t the only change ahead for the Lions; coach Wally Buono is leaving the club and 2018 will be his final season on the sidelines.

For now, Buono says all that’s left is to “assemble a good football team with Ed, surround ourselves with good players like we have, get them to do a better job, get the coaches to do a better job, and hopefully, at the end of the year, do what Toronto did. Did Toronto not inspire all of us? It did me.”

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Buono is referring to the fact that Toronto was a team that went from the worst in the league to Grey Cup champs in a single year.

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Change was in the wind after the Lions had a losing record this season and failed to make the playoffs.

Attendance at home games has also been in steady decline.

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