Wally Buono
Wally Buono
Pasquale "Wally" Buono CMis the general manager, vice president of football operations, alternate governor and the head coach of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, and one of the most successful head coaches in league history. He spent 22 years as head coach of the Calgary Stampeders and the BC Lions, which is tied for the most seasons coached all-time. On September 19, 2009, Buono became the CFL's all-time winningest coach when his Lions beat the Toronto Argonauts...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 February 1950
calls worry
If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.
coach
If you're a coach and you want to win, you play like you want to win,
bring guy risk taking worth
He's a guy worth taking a risk in. We'll bring him in to see where he's at.
conclusion fairly issue
This resolves a big issue that we thought we would have to come to a conclusion on fairly quickly.
single
Too much is made of that single stat.
When you look at his credentials and what he's accomplished, it's tremendous.
ball careful game production running
We'd like more production out of a lot of things, our running game is one of them, ... You have to be careful you don't try to do what isn't there. You can try to run the ball 20 times but if you have very little production it doesn't help.
address area concern guy kicking proven track
Kicking was an area of concern and one way to address it is to get a guy with a proven track record.
front playing pressure takes
He's playing two-thirds of every game. He takes a lot of pressure off those front guys.
improve status stay
We have to improve in all areas, we can't stay status quo,
both difficult impressed jay player plays position skill
We were very impressed with Jay as both a player and a person. He plays a very difficult position with skill and intelligence.
despite flew good great guys mark played sharp team
We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.
chances guys hard played running understand
We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better understand that.
level raise respond
We have to raise our level of intensity. I think they'll understand. We have to respond and rebound.