Longtime defensive coordinator and head coach Rich Stubler, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 74, was considered a visionary by his peers for the concepts he introduced to the Canadian Football League. Members of the Calgary Stampeders say he was known by many as a “football junkie” and someone with an infectious love of the Canadian game, Salim Valji writes.
Nine years after he parted ways with the organization, members of the Calgary Stampeders still recall the positive impact that former defensive coordinator Rich Stubler had on them.
Stampeders defensive line coach Juwan Simpson was on the 2014 defence that was coached by Stubler. He remembers his old coordinator as an old school, fun-loving guy. While most coordinators used computers and had binders of plays, Stubler kept it simple.“He didn’t believe in a whole bunch of papers…he’d tell you something and we’d ask, ‘Where’d you get this from, Stub?’ And he’d say, ‘Five, seven years ago.’…most defensive coordinators, they have the headsets on and papers. Not him.
“One of his first interviews when he got the job, [he said], ‘I need a leader. I need a captain and we’d love to have Simpson back,’” Simpson said.Stubler was considered a visionary by his peers for the concepts he introduced to the Canadian game. “I learned a lot from him. He was one of my best mentors…I learned a ton about coverages and how to scheme up offences from him.
“On walk-through days, when most teams are serious and tense, we’re out here playing a game [during walk-through],” Simpson said, adding that the 2014 Stamps were a very close group partly because of Stubler’s influence.Despite being a veteran coach, Simpson said Stubler constantly solicited input and feedback from the players on defensive schemes and game plans. “And he would say, ‘Well, I know what I would do, but what would y’all do? Y’all are the ones playing.
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