BY ARASH MADANI
sportsnet.ca

Danny Maciocia, as expected, will be the next head coach at the Université de Montreal.

As sportsnet.ca first reported last week, the former head coach and GM of the Edmonton Eskimos is returning to CIS football. The school will unveil the 43-year-old Montrealer as the third head coach in the program's history at a news conference Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.

Maciocia succeeds Marc Santerre, whose contract was not renewed last week.

Maciocia was offered the position last week but mulled over an offer from McGill University, as well as the potential possibility of joining the expansion CFL franchise in Ottawa should it come back to the nation’s capital. He also was handling the offensive coordinator responsibilities with Collége André-Grasset, which just captured the second division Quebec CEGEP (collegiate) title over the weekend.

This would not be Maciocia’s introduction to the Carabins. Nine years ago he left the Alouettes staff, where he was an assistant, to join the university under then head coach Jacques Dussault. But before the program launched its inaugural season in 2002, Maciocia took the offensive coordinator job with the Eskimos that season. Two years later he became Edmonton’s head coach, and later general manager.

Maciocia has worked at all levels of football in Quebec, including the junior football league in the province where he broke into the coaching fraternity in 1993.