Back in 2024!
Montreal, December 21, 2023 – The Montreal Alouettes announced their 2024 coaching staff on Thursday. The eight coaches were on staff in 2023, the Grey Cup champion edition.
Meet the Alouettes’ coaching staff for the 2024 season:
Jason Maas – Head Coach
Byron Archambault – Assistant Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator
Anthony Calvillo – Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach
Noel Thorpe – Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Backs Coach
Luc Brodeur-Jourdain – Offensive Line Coach
Michael Lionello – Receivers Coach and Pass Game Coordinator
Dave Jackson – Running Backs Coach
Greg Quick – Linebackers Coach
Corvey Irvin – Defensive Line Coach
Chandler Jones – Assistant Defensive Backs Coach
David Brown – Offensive Line Assistant
Byron Archambault is the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator. This year, the team finished first in the CFL on punt average with 37.9 yards. The opponents earned only 9.6 yards on punt returns, which puts the Alouettes first in the CFL.
Archambault joined the Alouettes in February 2020 as director of national scouting. He was promoted to defence assistant coach in September 2021.
Anthony Calvillo came back to the Alouettes as the team’s Quarterback Coach in January 2022. The former 51-year-old star was with the Alouettes from 2015 to 2017.
Calvillo spent 20 seasons in the professional ranks, including the last 16 with the Alouettes. He holds numerous CFL passing records, including all-time passing yards with 79,816. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2017. Winner of three Grey Cups (2002, 2009, 2010), he saw the Alouettes retire his number 13 jersey in October of 2014.
In January 2021, Calvillo was named the Alouettes Ambassador.
Noel Thorpe returned with the Alouettes a third time in July 2022. In 2023, the team finished second in the CFL with an average of allowing only 21.8 points per game. Thorpe’s unit also finished second in the league allowing 39 majors to their opponents. This year, the Alouettes made 12 tackles on defensive/special temps, in first place in the CFL.
Thorpe’s system has made veterans like Tyrice Beverette, Shawn Lemon and Darnell Sankey successful. Under his leadership, rookies Lwal Uguak and Reggie Stubblefield had impressive professional debut.
He began his CFL career in Montreal in 2002, winning the Grey Cup in his first season, coaching in Edmonton and Ottawa.
Luc Brodeur-Jourdain has been on the coaching staff since 2019, a few days after playing his last career game. In 2023, his unit found the gaps to allow running back William Stanback to amass 800 rushing yards in just 14 games. He won two Grey Cups in 11 seasons with the Alouettes as a player.
Mike Lionello helped rookies Tyler Snead and Austin Mack make a sensational debut in 2023. Snead earned 788 yards and five majors, while Mack collected 1,154 yards and four touchdowns. Lionello was promoted to receivers coach in May 2022 after joining the team in January 2020 as an assistant on offence.
Greg Quick helped linebacker Tyrice Beverette rise among the CFL leaders with 109 tackles on defence in 2023.
He was promoted in September 2021 as a defensive line coach after returning to the team in February 2021.
He has over 40 years of football experience in the CFL and NCAA,
Quick is on his third run with the Alouettes, having coached the linebackers in 2014, and then in 2016, 2017.
Corvey Irvin inspired defensive linemen Mustafa Johnson (seven sacks) and Shawn Lemon (nine sacks) to make life difficult for opponent quarterbacks. After wearing the Alouettes jersey in 2014 and 2015, he returned to the nest in February 2023.
The Augusta, GA native also wore the Saskatchewan Roughriders uniform in 2016. In 2019, he joined the coaching staff of the Concordia University Stingers.
David Brown worked alongside Luc-Brodeur Jourdain in 2023 after two years as an offensive lineman with the organization. Previously, the 2017 Vanier Cup winner from Western University had spent three years with the Stampeders.
