Thorpe returned with the Alouettes for a third time in July 2022 and hoisted the Grey Cup as the team’s defensive coordinator in 2023.

In 2025, several players had excellent seasons before heading to the Grey Cup game. Tyrice Beverette (90 defensive tackles) and Najee Murray (77 defensive tackles) benefited from his guidance. Defensive end Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund also finished as a runner-up for the Most Outstanding Canadian award.

Thorpe began his CFL coaching career with Montreal in 2002 by winning a Grey Cup, after six years in college with UBC and Simon Fraser University. In 1997, he raised the Vanier Cup with the UBC Thunderbirds.

He was in charge of the Alouettes’ special teams and the defensive backs from 2002 to 2007. From 2013 to 2017, he was the team’s Defensive Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach. Thorpe also served as Defensive Backs Coach, Special Teams Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach with Edmonton from 2008 to 2010.

He also worked for two years as a Defensive Coordinator with the Ottawa REDBLACKS. He joined current Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia, with whom he worked in Edmonton in 2010, with the Université de Montréal Carabins in 2011 and 2012, when he was the Special Teams Coordinator. In 2022, he won the championship in the USFL with the Birmingham Stallions.