The Montreal Alouettes fired head coach Khari Jones and replaced him with Danny Maciocia on Wednesday.
Maciocia is also the general manager of the team.
The Montreal club has a record of one win and three losses this season.
Last Saturday, the Birds were corrected 41-20 in Saskatchewan.
The team’s next game will take place on July 14 in Montreal, against Edmonton.
The Alouettes have indicated that Maciocia will serve as head coach until the end of the current season.
Maciocia will meet the media by videoconference Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
The team also fired defensive coordinator Barron Miles, who replaced Noel Thorpe. The latter will also lead the defensive backs.
“This kind of decision is always difficult to make, but it was necessary in our eyes,” said Maciocia. It was better to take it early in the season.
“We thank Khari Jones and Barron Miles for their work, and wish them the best of luck in the future. »
Maciocia returned to the Alouettes in January 2020 as the team’s general manager.
He began his professional career in Montreal in 1996 as a quality control coach. He quickly rose through the ranks with the Alouettes, becoming the offensive coordinator of the formation in 2001, before occupying the same position in Edmonton from 2002 to 2004, helping the team to engrave its name on the Gray Cup, in 2003.
Edmonton then named him coach of the team in 2005; he then became the first Quebecer to hold the position of head coach in the CFL.
Maciocia lifted the Gray Cup in his first season, following an overtime win against the Alouettes. In 2007, he became the general manager of the Edmonton team.
In nine seasons with the University of Montreal Carabins, from 2010 to 2020, Maciocia went 57-16-0.
He won a Vanier Cup and three times the Dunsmore Cup, awarded to RSEQ champions.
Thorpe began his CFL career in Montreal in 2002, winning the Gray Cup in his first season after six years in the college ranks with UBC and Simon Fraser.
In 1997 he lifted the Vanier Cup with the UBC Thunderbirds.
With Montreal, Thorpe led special teams and defensive backs from 2002 to 2007. From 2013 to 2017, he served as defensive coordinator and assistant coach.
He joins Danny Maciocia, with whom he worked in Edmonton in 2010 and with the Carabins in 2011 and 2012, when he was the special teams coordinator.