Ronald Hilaire is no longer at the helm of the McGill Redbirds football team.
The English-speaking institution announced this on Friday.
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The 39-year-old joined the McGill staff in 2014 as defensive coordinator. The following season he was promoted to head coach. Under his leadership, the team posted a 16-52 record and only made the playoffs three times in eight seasons. The Redbirds have not won a walk-off game since 2002, when they last won the Dunsmore Cup.
Hilaire is the second head coach to lose his job at the University of Quebec in the last month. In mid-November, Sherbrooke University’s Vert & Or ended its collaboration with Mathieu Lecompte. The latter had been in office since 2017.
Returning to Hilaire, he played as a defensive lineman for the University of Buffalo Bulls in the NCAA and was drafted in the fourth round of the 2008 draft by the Calgary Stampeders, but did not play professional football.
He began his coaching career in 2010 as head of the defensive line with the Spartiates du Cégep du Vieux-Montréal and then held several positions with the Carabins de l’Université de Montréal (2011–2013).