Danny Maciocia

Background

Maciocia grew up in the Saint-Leonard neighborhood of suburban Montreal, and also spent part of his youth in San Francisco.

Education

He graduated from Laurier Macdonald High School in 1984.

Career

He is also the former general manager & director of football operations of the Canadian Football League"s Edmonton Eskimos and former offensive coordinator with the André-Grasset Phénix, a CEGEP team in Montreal. He played football in high school. A professional coaching career began for Maciocia in 1993 when he took a job as an assistant coach with the Canadian junior national football team

In 1998, Maciocia entered the Canadian Football League as the running backs coach of the Montreal Alouettes.

In 2001, he became offensive coordinator in Montreal, then took the same position in Edmonton the following season. Maciocia was also the head coach of the 2004 edition of the Canadian junior football team for the eighth NFL Global Junior Championship.

Maciocia was appointed as head coach of the Eskimos after the firing of former coach Tom Higgins following 2004 Canadian Football League season. Maciocia became the first Quebec-born head coach in Canadian Football League history and the first Canadian head coach of the Eskimos since Annis Stukus in 1951.

The 2006 season was not successful for Maciocia and the Eskimos.

The team missed the play-offs for the first time in 35 years, ending a record streak for consecutive post-season appearances among North American professional sports teams. Rumors abounded of Maciocia being on the hotseat after the 2006 campaign, but during the off-season he was surprisingly given a promotion. In addition to coach, Maciocia became director of football operations.

As a result, he has a high degree control over decisions on player personnel.

Despite Maciocia taking more control, the Eskimos finished with an even worse record in 2007 and once again missed the play-offs. He resigned as head coach while continuing on as head of football operations following the end of the 2008 Canadian Football League season, where the Eskimos managed to make the playoffs with a 10–8 record, defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the East Semi-Final, and lost the East Final against the Montreal Alouettes.

He served as a volunteer coach for Andre-Grasset College for the 2010 season helping them to a Quebec junior college (CEGEP) championship. He was later named head coach of the Montreal Carabins football team of the Université de Montréal on November 17, 2010.

In the 2015, the Carabins once again returned to the national title game with Maciocia at the helm, only to be defeated this time by the University of British Columbia T-Birds, 16-13.

Achievements

• In 1995, he moved into the ranks of the CJFL as offensive coordinator of the Saint Leonard Cougars, who won the championship of the league in Maciocia"s first year. In 2005, Maciocia guided the Eskimos to a championship victory in the 93rd Grey Cup, the thirteenth in franchise history. On July 31, 2010, Maciocia was fired by the Eskimos after the first win in a 1-4 start to the 2010 season. In the 2014, as the Carabins won the 50th Vanier Cup. On their way there, they defeated the Laval Rouge et Or to win their first Dunsmore Cup, the Manitoba Bisons in the Uteck Bowl and then the McMaster Marauders in the Vanier Cup final.