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Decades from now, everything from the linebackers role he started in, to the running backs coach title he’ll hold for a second consecutive year in 2016, they’ll all likely be minor blips on the resume radar.

If you attempted to put together a way-too-early list of future CFL offensive co-ordinators and head coaches who may currently be running coffee in their spare time, Mueller’s name would be at or near the top.

“The people that say that the most are probably my mom and my fiancee,” the personable Mueller said with a laugh. “They say that stuff to me all the time, but it’s good. As a position coach, you always want to be in position to work hard enough where you’re in consideration for that next step. I think everyone in this office is the same way.”

What’s Mueller done to deserve that sort of praise, you ask?

You can start with something he had no say in — the bloodlines.

Being the grandson of the late, great Ron Lancaster is notable, and Mueller is known around the Stampeders facilities as something of a CFL historian because of how much time he’s spent around the game.

Add in his extensive experience at the quarterback position and a work ethic in the film room that has impressed even the most veteran coaches, and you have the sort of mix that, in time, comes with a few promotions.

“Ronnie was a good friend of mine,” Stamps president/GM John Hufnagel said. “I knew Marc’s dad when I was out there as a Roughrider.

“It’s going to be interesting to see how he grows in the CFL. I think that he’ll be a coach that will be on the rise in the future. Near future, I don’t know that, but in the future.”