MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes unveiled on Wednesday their coaching staff and football operations personnel for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Nine of the coaches on this year\u2019s staff were part of the 2025 team that reached the 112th Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Anthony Calvillo will now call the plays on offence, a task that Jason Maas was doing in the past. A.J. Gass joins the staff as linebackers coach, while Domenico Manno is added to the coaches as an offensive assistant.<\/p>\n A.J. Gass was with the Alberta Golden Bears (U SPORTS) as special teams coordinator and linebackers coach. He previously spent time with Edmonton as a defensive assistant (2008\u20132009) and as special teams coordinator in 2019 and 2020. During his first stint in Edmonton, he worked alongside Danny Maciocia, now the Alouettes\u2019 general manager. Gass also spent nine seasons as a high school head coach (2010\u20132014 and 2015\u20132018).<\/p>\n He played 10 seasons in Edmonton as a teammate of current Alouettes head coach Jason Maas, winning the Grey Cup in 2003 and 2005. He was named All-CFL four times during his playing career.<\/p>\n He played five years at Fresno State University (1993\u20131997), earning first-team all-conference linebacker honors twice.<\/p>\n Domenico Manno began his career with the Alouettes in 2021 as an equipment assistant and became head of the department one year later, winning the Grey Cup with the team in 2023. He played four years of university football at Bishop\u2019s University as a fullback.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was important for us to bring back our staff, and I\u2019m happy that most of our coaches and football operations personnel are still with us,\u201d said Danny Maciocia, general manager of the Montreal Alouettes. \u201cWe know how to work together as a group, and I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll continue our success. We have a hard-working staff that\u2019s all pulling in the same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Alouettes\u2019 2026 coaching staff<\/p>\n Jason Maas \u2013 Head Coach As for the football operations staff, Bianca Maciocia is now coordinator of football operations and team services. She joined the organization in February 2025 after serving as a football operations assistant. She previously completed an internship with the Alouettes in 2023 and worked for five years in football operations with the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al Carabins. She is the daughter of general manager Danny Maciocia.<\/p>\n Garlins Duclervil participated in the Alouettes\u2019 most recent training camp as a guest through the CFL\u2019s Diversity in Football Program. He played on the defensive line with the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al Carabins from 2007 to 2011 and joined their coaching staff from 2014 to 2020, where he coached the defensive line. He worked with Danny Maciocia both as a player and as a coach.<\/p>\n Alouettes\u2019 2026 football operations personnel<\/p>\n Danny Maciocia \u2013 Senior Vice President of Football Operations & General Manager
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\nByron Archambault<\/a> \u2013 Assistant Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator
\nAnthony Calvillo \u2013 Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach
\nNoel Thorpe \u2013 Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Backs Coach
\nDave Brown \u2013 Offensive Line Coach
\nMichael Lionello \u2013 Receivers Coach and Pass Game Coordinator
\nDave Jackson \u2013 Running Backs and Tight Ends Coach
\nA.J. Gass \u2013 Linebackers Coach
\nCorvey Irvin<\/a> \u2013 Defensive Line Coach
\nDomenico Manno \u2013 Offensive Assistant
\nBryan Wyllie \u2013 Defensive Assistant<\/p>\n
\nPier-Yves Lavergne \u2013 Assistant General Manager
\nJean-Marc Edm\u00e9 \u2013 Senior Personnel Executive
\nMarcel Desjardins \u2013 Assistant to the General Manager and Player Personnel
\nByron Archambault<\/a> \u2013 Director of Player Personnel
\nBianca Maciocia \u2013 Football Operations Coordinator and Player Services
\nGarlins Duclervil \u2013 Football Operations Coordinator and Player Personnel
\nRob McIntyre \u2013 Scout
\nPierre-Olivier Breault \u2013 Director of Player Performance
\nTristan Castonguay \u2013 Head Therapist
\nJulie Lamoureux \u2013 Assistant Athletic Therapist
\n\u00c9milie Laneuville \u2013 Assistant Athletic Therapist
\nRico Morotti \u2013 Head Video Coordinator
\nAlex Vertullo \u2013 Assistant Video Coordinator
\nDavid Deschamps \u2013 Equipment Manager
\nMatthew Iuliano \u2013 Equipment Assistant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes unveiled on Wednesday their coaching staff and football operations personnel for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-454226","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\/454226","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=454226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}