BY PERRY LEFKO
sportsnet.ca

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are set to announce onetime player personnel director Joe Mack as their new head of football operations, sportsnet.ca has learned.

The Winnipeg Board of Directors is meeting today to finalize the hiring, but a source with knowledge of the hiring said it will be Mack.

A veteran personnel man with NFL and CFL experience, Mack has not been associated with a CFL club in 20 years. However, he has close ties to current board members, notably Paul Robson.

Calgary general managert Jim Barker had also been in consideration.