The 2025 OUA Football season will mark the 2nd season in which Dennis McPhee has led the Mustangs defensive line. McPhee, a Hamilton native, boasts 40 years of coaching experience, including 16 years in the professional ranks as a Defensive Line Coach with the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats. McPhee also has 22 years of coaching experience at the Canadian university level, having held head coaching roles on two separate occasions, leading the University of Waterloo's football program for five seasons (2007-2011) after having served as head coach of the St. Francis Xavier X-Men for two seasons (2002-2003). This is McPhee's second stint with the Mustangs, serving as the defensive coordinator in the 2012 season.
In his 16 years as a defensive coach in the professional ranks, McPhee put together a lengthy list of accomplishments, highlighted by a Grey Cup championship with Hamilton in 1999. Canadian Football Hall of Famer and legendary Ticats defensive end Joe Montford was named the CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player on three separate occasions (1998, 2000 and 2001) with coach McPhee overseeing the Hamilton defensive front throughout each of those years.
As a student-athlete, McPhee was a two-sport star at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, competing at the varsity level for the Huskies in both football and hockey. Following his football career at SMU, where he was a five-year starter, McPhee attended training camp with the Toronto Argonauts in 1982 and later spent time on the Edmonton Eskimos practice roster. Dennis and his wife Joanne Evans, a former Female Athlete of the Year at Saint Mary's, have three children (Macklin, Caelan and Catherine).
| 2024 - Present: |
Western Mustangs (Defensive Line Coach) |
| 2019-2023: |
Guelph Gryphons (Defensive Coordinator) |
| 2013-2018: |
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Defensive Line Coach) |
| 2012: |
Western Mustangs (Defensive Coordinator) |
| 2007-2011: |
Waterloo Warriors (Head Coach) |
| 2004-2006: |
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Defensive Line Coach) |
| 2002-2003: |
St. FX X-Men (Head Coach) (AUS Coach of the Year, 2002) |
| 1995-2001: |
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Defensive Line & Linebackers Coach) |
| 1994: |
McMaster Marauders (Defensive Coordinator) |
| 1990-1993: |
Guelph Gryphons (Linebackers Coach) |
| 1989: |
St. FX X-Men (Defensive Backs Coach) |
| 1984-1988: |
McMaster Marauders (Defensive Line Coach) |
