Saskatchewan Roughriders part ways with head coach Craig Dickenson

The Saskatchewan Roughriders will be looking for a new head coach in the off-season after another disappointing end to their CFL campaign.

The Roughriders announced Monday that Craig Dickenson's contract will not be renewed. The news came two days after the Riders dropped their seventh straight game and missed the playoffs for the second year in a row.

"I want to thank Coach Dickenson for everything he has given to the Saskatchewan Roughriders over his 10 years in green and white," Jeremy O'Day, the Roughriders' general manager and vice-president of football operations, said in a news release. 

"From his time as special teams co-ordinator to his five seasons as head coach, he gave all he had to the team and did it with kindness and respect.

"We appreciate his hard work and dedication and wish him all the best moving forward."  

The Roughriders also announced O'Day's contract has been renewed.

The Riders say 2024 will be his 26th year with the organization, dating back to when he joined the team as an offensive lineman back in 1999.

O'Day joined the team's football operation staff in 2011. He was named the Roughriders' general manager and vice-president of football operations in 2019.

"Jeremy has an excellent track record of identifying and bringing in quality talent to the Saskatchewan Roughriders with many players having gone on to have successful seasons including two 1,000-yard receivers in 2023," Craig Reynolds, Roughriders president and CEO, said in a news release.

"I am confident in his ability to find the next great head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and to put together a team Rider Nation can be proud of."

O'Day won a Grey Cup as a player in 2007 and won another as an assistant general manager in 2013.