during an appearance<\/a> on the Rod Pedersen Show that he is rejoining the Argos in a player personnel role. <\/p>\nThe 69-year-old has had multiple stints with Toronto in different roles, including senior advisor, head coach, general manager and offensive co-ordinator. During his time, he has helped the team win three Grey Cups and has two more with the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes. <\/p>\n
Barker’s addition to Toronto’s front office comes after longtime Stampeders coach and executive John Hufnagel joined the team as a senior adviser on Tuesday. Hufnagel and Barker have worked together in the past, winning a Grey Cup together in Calgary back in 2008.<\/p>\n
The Argos are looking to rebound from a down season, going 5-13 and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2019. <\/p>\n
Toronto also hired Mike Miller as their 46th head coach in franchise history following Ryan Dinwiddie’s departure to the Ottawa Redblacks to become their general manager and head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Argonauts continue to revamp their management staff in an off-season makeover. Jim Barker said during an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-327807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}