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“Sheree and her friends and family are big Eskimos fans.

“They didn’t understand when I went to Regina. I tried to explain as an assistant coach, when your head guy goes somewhere, and he asks you, he generally asks you once. You don’t have a chance to see what head coach is coming in or if they are they going to retain you or not.

Lolley also fell in love with Canadian football.

“That first year, those first two or three games was quite an experience. Then after that, it all turns into football,” he testified. “It didn’t take me long, but there are a lot of things different when it comes to coaching defence in the CFL with all the motion it creates with the defensive backs and the outside linebackers. That’s a totally different ball game.

“But you catch on. When you’ve been around football your whole life, you figure it out. And when I figured it out, I loved the game.

“It’s because I love the game that I still wanted to do it at my age. It’s old school for me.”

Eskimos fans will likely be delighted to know that Lolley has no intention of attempting to run a bend-but-don’t-break deffence, like Mike Benevides attempted to run here.

“I plan to be very, very aggressive. I’m not the kind of coach to wait around for things to happen, I’m going to make things happen.”

Hardly a surprise, in that Lolley was Jones’ original mentor.

“Chris worked for me. I basically got him started in the business. I hired Chris,” said Lolley. “Even before I hired him, even when he was still in school, he would come down from Chattanooga and help. He told me he wanted to get into coaching. At the time, I had a very successful program and he just asked me if he could come and sit in and help coach and just hang out. And that’s what he did.