Gary Etcheverry

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Gary Etcheverry
Born: (1956-11-17) November 17, 1956 (age 67)
Career information
Big Kahuna Rams (OC)
20082010Saskatchewan Roughriders (DC)
2012Ottawa (HC)
2014Winnipeg Blue Bombers (DC)
Career highlights and awards

Gary Etcheverry (born November 17, 1956) is an American-born

CIS, and the NCAA
.

Coaching career

After graduating from

defensive line coach. His next job was as the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at the University of Redlands. In 1981, he was an offensive and defensive assistant at San Francisco State University. His offensive coordinator at SFSU was Mike Holmgren
.

In 1982, Etcheverry began a seven-year tenure as defensive coordinator at Occidental College. He coached with the Tigers from 1982 to 1987, leaving in 1988 to serve as a special assistant with the Los Angeles Rams. He returned to Occidental for one more season before accepting the head coaching position at Macalester College. He was fired after a 0–10 season in 1993. In his four seasons with the Fighting Scots, he had a 2–37 overall record.

In 1994, he moved to the German Football League where he was the defensive coordinator of the Hamburg Blue Devils before becoming head coach of the Stuttgart Scorpions in 1996.

In

BC Lions
.

In 2002 he was hired by team President Pinball Clemons to serve as the Toronto Argonauts head coach. He was fired after a 4–8 start and replaced by Pinball Clemons.

In

South Surrey Big Kahuna Rams as well as a guest coach at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
training camp.

On April 7, 2008, Etcheverry joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders as their defensive assistant coach. On January 26, 2009, he was named defensive coordinator for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Etcheverry was hired as the head coach for the Ottawa Gee-Gees on May 23, 2012, following the resignation of Jean-Phillipe Asselin.[1] After the team with winless in its first five games of the 2012 season, Etcheverry and most of his staff was fired.[2]

On February 20, 2014, Etcheverry was announced as the defensive coordinator for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. After leading the team to an average of 360.9 yards allowed per game in the 2014 CFL season, Head Coach, Mike O'Shea announced that Etcheverry had relieved of his duties.[3][4]

Head coaching record

CFL

Team Year Regular Season Post Season
Won Lost Ties Win % Finish Won Lost Result
TOR 2002 4 8 0 .333 4th in East Division (fired)

CIS

Team Year Regular Season Post Season
Won Lost Ties Win % Finish Won Lost Result
UOGG 2012 0 5 0 .000 Last in OUA (fired before season close)

College

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
) (1990–1993)
1990 Macalester 1–9 1–8 9th
1991 Macalester 1–8 0–8 10th
1992 Macalester 0–10 0–9 10th
1993 Macalester 0–10 0–9 10th
Macalester: 2–37 1–34
Total: 2–37

References

  1. ^ Veteran CFL coach Gary Etcheverry chosen to lead 2012 Gee-Gees
  2. ^ "Etcheverry Fired from University of Ottawa". Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  3. ^ "Dec 2014: Bombers fire coach Etcheverry". Winnipeg Free Press. December 17, 2014.
  4. ^ "Blue Bombers fire defensive co-ordinator Etcheverry - TSN.ca". December 17, 2014.

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