The B.C. Lions have fired head coach and co-general manager Rick Campbell.
The Lions also named co-general manager Neil McEvoy vice-president of football operations and promoted assistant general manager Ryan Rigmaiden to general manager.
The team made the announcement Wednesday, with president Duane Vienneau saying in a statement that Campbell brought the club “back to respectability and contention.”
The move comes after a season where the Lions started 5-1, then lost five straight games and finished with a 9-9 record. B.C. made the playoffs, but lost to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the western conference semifinal.
Campbell, 53, joined the Lions in December 2019 following six seasons with the Redblacks, including the 2016 campaign where Ottawa won the Grey Cup.
He and McEvoy were made co-general managers ahead of the 2021 season after former GM Ed Hervey stepped down.
The COVID-19 pandemic postponed his first game with B.C. until 2021. The …