Charlie Taffe Named 2000 CFL Coach Of The Year
2/7/2001 7:00:00 AM | Football
Feb. 7, 2001
TORONTO - Charlie Taaffe, former head coach of the Montreal
Alouettes and current offensive coordinator at the University of Maryland, has been named as the 2000 Canadian Football
League Coach of the Year. The announcement was made at the
Coach of the Year Luncheon hosted annually by the Edmonton
Eskimos in the Ballroom of the Westin Edmonton Hotel.
Taaffe had another great season as head coach of the Alouettes.
He led Montreal to its second consecutive East Division title
with a 12-6 record, equaling their record of a year ago. Montreal
went on to defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the East Division
Final to advance to the Grey Cup where they lost in another
classic to the B.C. Lions 28-26.
Prior to his appointment as the Head Coach of the Montreal
Alouettes before the 1999 season, Taaffe worked the sidelines as
their offensive coordinator for two years. Before coming to the
CFL, Taaffe spent 24 years coaching in the United States. He has
returned to U.S. college football to become the offensive
coordinator for the University of Maryland Terrapins.
The CFL Coach of the Year Award has now been won by the same individual in back-to-back seasons five times, most recently occurring in 1994 & 1995 when Don Matthews, current head coach of the Edmonton Eskimos, was head coach of the Baltimore Stallions. Taaffe's back-to-back victories mark the first time in CFL history that a coach has won consecutive Coach of the Year honours in his first two seasons as a CFL head coach and the fifth time overall. Taaffe is only the second Alouettes head coach to be honored with the Annis Stukus Trophy as CFL Coach of the Year, the other being Marv Levy in 1974.
