1. Buck James Pierce was born on November 15,1981 and is an American professional football coach who is the head coach and offensive coordinator of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
32 Facts About Buck Pierce
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Buck Pierce is a former professional quarterback who played nine seasons for the Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
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Buck Pierce spent the first five years of his career with the Lions before signing with the Blue Bombers for the 2010 CFL season.
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Buck Pierce played in two Grey Cup games, winning a championship in 2006 and won as part of the coaching staff with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2019 and 2021.
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Buck Pierce passed for 2,225 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior in 1999, earning Big 5 Conference Most Valuable Player honors for the second consecutive season.
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Buck Pierce broke the school's single-season and career records for both passing yardage and passing touchdowns in 1999.
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Buck Pierce threw for 2,010 yards and 19 touchdowns as a junior in 1998 and 1,180 yards and 10 touchdowns as a sophomore in 1997.
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Buck Pierce was voted to the Times Standard North Coast California All-Century team.
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Buck Pierce led DNHS to a pair of league titles as a starting guard on the basketball squad.
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Buck Pierce attended New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he majored in kinesiology.
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In 2001, on his first run from scrimmage as a college player, Buck Pierce ripped off a 75-yard run against Louisville.
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Buck Pierce did not throw an interception in 2001 and did not throw one in 2002 until the fourth quarter against North Texas in the next to last game of the season.
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Buck Pierce consistently posted high efficiency ratings as a college quarterback.
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Buck Pierce signed a free agent contract with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League on May 16,2005 after being passed over by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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Buck Pierce began the season as the third-string quarterback, making his CFL debut on Aug 19,2005 versus Hamilton.
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Once Dickenson was injured in week 8 against the Edmonton Eskimos, Buck Pierce was again elevated to starter status, this time for two straight games and earned his first CFL win as a starter as the team won both games.
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Dickenson returned only to leave the Sept 24 game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders with post-concussion symptoms, leaving Buck Pierce to start the next game against the Tiger-Cats, a win.
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Buck Pierce started each of the next three games until playing poorly in the third game against Hamilton where Dickenson reclaimed his starter's position.
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In 2007, then-starter Dave Dickenson suffered yet another concussion, in week 3, and Buck Pierce stepped up to assume the role of starting quarterback.
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On March 9,2010, Buck Pierce was released by the BC Lions making him a free agent.
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Buck Pierce signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League on April 12,2010.
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Buck Pierce started Winnipeg's opening game of the 2010 CFL season against Hamilton on July 2,2010.
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Buck Pierce fought through an injury-plagued season, making only five starts with only three of those coming consecutively.
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One of the major questions regarding the team's potential was the health of their starting quarterback Buck Pierce, who had missed 13 games the previous year due to injury.
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Statistically Buck Pierce did not have a great season, but he proved that he was a sufficiently healthy quarterback who could win games.
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In only his second game back from injury Buck Pierce took a violent hit to his head, from which he received a concussion.
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Buck Pierce played in five games for the Lions and started their last regular season game of 2013.
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On March 7,2014, only three days after announcing his retirement, Buck Pierce was announced as the running backs coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Buck Pierce served in that capacity for two seasons before being named the team's quarterbacks coach on February 3,2016.
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In 2019, Buck Pierce coached Matt Nichols, Chris Streveler, and Zach Collaros as the latter was the team's starter in the team's victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 107th Grey Cup.
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On January 21,2020, Buck Pierce was named the offensive coordinator for the Blue Bombers as the incumbent, Paul LaPolice, left the team to become head coach of the Ottawa Redblacks.
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On December 3,2024, Buck Pierce was named the head coach of the BC Lions, the 28th in franchise history.