Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.all-xfl.com Greg Mohns BC Lions Head Coach Greg Mohns named Director of Player Personnel for XFL’s San Francisco Demons A football man with the enormous reputation for resurrecting struggling programs, Director of Player Personnel Greg Mohns has begun the job of masterminding the first-year operations of the San Francisco Demons, one of eight franchises in the XFL, a professional football league jointly owned and operated by the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. (NMSL: WWFE) and NBC. Mohns began the summer as head coach of the British Columbia Lions, but left the Canadian Football League team after seven games to accept the challenge of building the XFL’s Bay Area franchise from the ground floor. His track record indicates the Demons will be in the thick of the Western Division title chase from the outset. A veteran of all levels of football, Mohns has an extensive coaching as well as administration background. Few coaches in recent CFL history have been able to make as stunning an initial impact as Greg etched during his 1998-2000 career with the BC Lions. Mohns assumed the controls with nine games remaining in the 1998 campaign and finished that season with an impressive six-game winning streak after a 3-9 beginning. That, however, was only a prelude to what was to follow the next summer. The Lions roared to a 3-0 mark, increasing the club’s success streak to nine games, and BC ultimately won its first Western Division crown in 12 years and advanced to the divisional title clash for the first time since 1987 as well with a sparkling13-5 ledger. Accordingly, the 50-year-old Mohns was seriously considered for coach of the year honors. Prior to stepping up to the XFL assignment, the colorful Mohns was victorious as a head coach 22 times in a 31-game stretch during the 1998-2000 timespan. He was associated with a CFL championship squad in 1996 when the Toronto Argonauts captured the Grey Cup with Mohns as assistant general manager and director of football operations. The season before Mohns came to the rescue of the Toronto franchise, the Argonauts were 4-14. Player acquisitions through the draft, trades, waiver claims and signing of free agents, Toronto charged to a glossy 17-3 worksheet and possession of the coveted Grey Cup. "I am very pleased that my first order of business is to welcome someone of Greg’s caliber to our organization,” General Manager Mike Preacher said at the time of Mohns’ hiring. “He had incredible success both as a head coach and director of player personnel and has made an immediate impact in creating winning organizations everywhere he’s been.” Included on his resume was a five-year stint (1983-87) with the Kansas City Chiefs, including the final two seasons as director of pro personnel for the Kansas City Chiefs. The result of Mohns’ efforts of was the tradition-steeped Chiefs first NFL playoff qualification since 1971. Mohns also has served as either director of football operations, director of player personnel or assistant general manager with three other CFL organizations during his career, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Memphis Mad Dogs. A native of Pasadena, Calif., Mohns was an offensive lineman at Bradley University and Baker (Kan.) University, earning his B.S. from Baker in 1972 and master’s from Oklahoma State in 1975. He also coached at Oklahoma State, Arizona State and Nevada-Las Vegas and was head coach at Ventura College (1980-81), posting a 15-3-2 overall mark. An avid musician and drummer, he played in bands with well-known jazz musicians Pat and Mike Methany. Mohns has one son, Jason, 19, a sophomore pre-med major at Arizona State. >> Personnel >> Community

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