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<\/p>\nThey also visited TSN \u2013 the CFL\u2019s broadcast partner \u2013 and assisted during the league\u2019s invitational combine Friday at the University of Waterloo. Masoli had always envisioned becoming a football coach upon retirement but said the mentorship program expanded his post-career horizons.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBefore this, the obvious and easy choice for me was coaching and I do want to be able to call an offence one day and earn that and work into that position and title,\u201d he said. \u201cBut after going through this, a couple of things really stood out.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst was partnerships and really being able to get behind our product, take it outside and sell it to somebody and have a partnership with them, and be able to sell the assets we have and just find those joint win-win situations. Another thing I really liked was the strategy behind broadcasting, the times of the game, the schedule, some of the tempo ideas and themes of the week \u2026 seeing what it\u2019s like behind the scenes definitely piqued my interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
The five-foot-11 228-pound Masoli spent last season with B.C. He broke into the CFL with Edmonton in 2012 and spent time with Hamilton (2013-19, 2021) and Ottawa (2022-24) before joining the Lions.<\/p>\n
Masoli\u2019s best season was 2018 with Hamilton when he established career highs for passes (572), completions (378), yards (5,209), TDs (28) and rushing yards (473). He was the East\u2019s outstanding player and a division all-star that year.<\/p>\n
Hamilton reached the Grey Cup in 2019 and \u201921, losing both times to Winnipeg. A season-ending knee injury sidelined Masoli for the Ticats\u2019 first championship appearance \u2013 Dane Evans started \u2013 but he relieved Evans in the second, passing for 185 yards with two touchdowns and an interception in a 33-25 overtime loss.<\/p>\n
Masoli continues to weigh his \u201926 options with his family: wife Vunga, son Kennedy and daughter Serena.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s up in the air right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been married for 11 years and been so lucky to have someone who supports my career and is willing to come to a different country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I married my wife, I never told her we\u2019d be living in Canada but she loves Canada, our kids were born in the GTA (greater Toronto area) and it\u2019s a second home for us no matter what. I want to continue my career in football and hopefully it\u2019s with the CFL and continuing to grow this game and helping make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Masoli admits pondering retirement isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough because you\u2019re a competitor, you just want to win,\u201d he said. \u201cPersonally, I\u2019ve never won a Grey Cup and in my mind I\u2019ve always wanted a Cup, wanted to be the best but it doesn\u2019t always happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou meet guys all of the time who had a 10-year career and never got to the Grey Cup so it goes both ways. I\u2019m just grateful for my time. I know I\u2019ll still be in the game \u2026 and that call to throw a corner route versus man coverage, that\u2019s always going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the quest for a Grey Cup isn\u2019t the only reason why Masoli would like to remain in the CFL in some capacity once his playing days are over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the relationships,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s such a unique cultural aspect to our league to where it\u2019s really a players\u2019 circle and we\u2019re tight.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven after I\u2019m done playing, that community, that brotherhood, the cultural aspect of wanting to get better all the time are reasons why I\u2019d love to stay within it. Those are things I believe in personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 9, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They also visited TSN \u2013 the CFL\u2019s broadcast partner \u2013 and assisted during the league\u2019s invitational combine Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-525449","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\/525449","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=525449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}