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QUEBEC — The man who could potentially become the Alouettes’ next field general lives just down Highway 20 in Quebec City. And Glen Constantin, the most successful football coach in Canadian university sports history, said he’ll listen when the expected call comes in.

But the conversation might be short. “You’d be crazy not to listen. You don’t know what you’re passing up,” the 52-year-old head coach at Université Laval said during a recent interview with the Montreal Gazette. “But it would be very hard for me to move from here.

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“I’m not going to be there for two years and lose my job. I’m well taken care of here.”

There’s no doubt the Canadian Football League team, coming off a 3-15 season and its third successive non-playoff year, needs Constantin far more than he needs the pay increase and the challenge of coaching a pro program that appears in disarray.

Completing his 17th season Constantin, with financial assistance from Quebec businessman and team president Jacques Tanguay, has moulded the Rouge et Or into the envy of many collegiate programs.