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MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. — When Corey Chamblin was last a head coach in the CFL, things weren’t this complicated.

Chamblin, the new coach of the Toronto Argonauts, is trying to build his staff under the constraints of the CFL’s new coaching salary cap, and it’s not easy.

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“It’s definitely a lot harder,” said Chamblin, who coached the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 2012 to 2015, winning a Grey Cup in 2013.

“I don’t think the coaches have a thorough enough understanding of why this is in place, from the guys I’ve been talking to. You spend a lot of time going through it with guys and educating them.”

Under the new cap, head coaches across the CFL now have a fixed amount of money to offer to co-ordinators, assistant coaches, equipment managers and members of the video department.

It’s not easy to try to lure a big-name coach when you can’t offer more money than anyone else.

“Because now, if you adjust one guy’s number up, you are actually taking away from someone else,” Chamblin said Tuesday during a media day at the CFL winter meetings. “It’s more having a budget and being meticulous in what you are doing with it and understanding how to go through the process. You go through and talk to all the coaches and you say ‘This is what the position pays.’