One of the great qualities of the Alouettes is their community involvement. The players are intensively involved with young people in schools. They are neither embarrassing nor annoying.
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Luc Brodeur-Jourdain, now an offensive coach, impressed me with his approach when I visited him at a school in Saint-André-d’Argenteuil a few years ago.
Today, Marc-Antoine Dequoy, who is having an exceptional season, is the team’s figurehead. However, the Alouettes’ presence is not limited to schools.
On Monday, Thanksgiving Day, several players and coaches will be serving meals at Welcome Hall Mission following their game against the Ottawa Rouge et Noir.
This activity has become a tradition.
In Kahnawake
Recently, Dequoy, Austin Mack, Kaion Julien-Grant and Frédéric Chagnon traveled to Kahnawake as part of Canada’s Indigenous Reconciliation Day. Commemorative orange and white jerseys worn by Canadian League players before games on Sept. 30 will be auctioned off to benefit Indigenous groups.
Part of this money will be used particularly by young people from Kahnawake who want to play football.
It’s nice to see that good things are still being done on this earth.
Computers instead of buses
Finally, let’s change the register completely. I would like to join those who commented on the early retirement of pitcher Jose Berrios in the second game of the series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota Twins.
If head coach John Schneider truly made this decision based on the advice of advanced statistical analysts, he shouldn’t be able to make it anymore.
Why should he continue to do it?
The way things are going, the day is not far off when baseball head coaches will be replaced by robots in the dugouts.
Advanced stats are another tool for coaches, but let’s not exaggerate. Coaches are there to think and make decisions.
It seems to me that Felipe Alou would have agreed to let an analytical data expert tell him what to do.
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