Just two weeks into the 2010 season, the Colorado Mammoth fired third-year coach Bob McMahon and replaced him with Steve Govett. Already president and general manager, Govett will coach for the first time in his career.
“I have a standard and a vision for this team,” Govett said in a statement Tuesday. “And sometimes it’s hard to have others buy in to that vision and carry it out if they’re not 100 percent in sync with what I’m looking for. I think our fans deserve better than what we’ve shown on the field so far.”
Govett takes the coaching helm on an interim basis and has not ruled out looking for a permanent coach.
“For now, I’m the head coach, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t find the right person down the line who fits exactly what I’m looking for,” Govett said.
The team was informed via teleconference Monday evening that McMahon was being replaced by Govett.
“It’s weird,” Mammoth assistant captain Nick Carlson told . “We need a couple changes, but I never thought about this being one of them until it popped up. We played (poorly) the last couple weeks, and that wasn’t necessarily Bob’s fault, and we feel guilty for it, but someone has to take the blame, and, fortunately or unfortunately, it was him.”
The Mammoth lost 14-13 to the Edmonton Rush on Saturday at the Pepsi Center, dropping the Mammoth to 0-2 in the National Lacrosse League.
In his first season with the organization in 2009, McMahon led the Mammoth to a 7-9 regular season, before losing in the first round of the playoffs to the eventual champion Calgary Roughnecks. Since winning the championship in 2006, the Mammoth has lost in the first round three consecutive seasons.
Patrick Saunders: 303-954-1720 or psaunders@denverpost.com
