{"id":57566,"date":"2017-02-16T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57566"},"modified":"2017-02-18T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:06:54","slug":"zavala-leaves-montebello-for-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57566","title":{"rendered":"Zavala Leaves Montebello for Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=53973\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53973\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-846x768.jpg\" alt=\"brian zavala\" width=\"520\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-846x768.jpg 846w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-70x64.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-330x300.jpg 330w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-150x136.jpg 150w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_61851-e1468127281553-900x817.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Montebello) &#8211; Montebello\u00a0defensive coordinator\u00a0Brian Zavala has left the Oilers to\u00a0become the DC at Colony\u00a0Montebello assistant Pete Gonzalez Jr. confirmed Thursday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Zavala, who\u00a0has also served as the head coach at Wilson and\u00a0the DC at Northview, led an Oiler\u00a0defense last year that allowed an average of 9.2 points per game.\u00a0If you take away the 42-7 playoff loss to\u00a0Valley View it was only 6.5 per game.\u00a0Zavala\u00a0over the years\u00a0is known\u00a0for developing defenses that have been dubbed &#8220;Darkside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Location was cited as the reason for the change\u00a0with Colony being much closer for\u00a0Zavala and his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s\u00a0nine miles from home.\u00a0So yes it just made sense,&#8221; Zavala said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great opportunity for me. I&#8217;m excited to see\u00a0what\u00a0I can do with all of the talent\u00a0out at Colony. They have D1 talent there. Montebello is a great school to work for\u00a0but this was just an opportunity\u00a0that I couldn&#8217;t pass up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Montebello) &#8211; Montebello\u00a0defensive coordinator\u00a0Brian Zavala has left the Oilers to\u00a0become the DC at Colony\u00a0Montebello assistant Pete Gonzalez Jr. confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,10265,12640,8021,7643,12639,12442,7741],"class_list":["post-57566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-brian-zavala","tag-colony-football","tag-darkside-defense","tag-montebello-football","tag-northview-football","tag-pete-gonzalaez-jr","tag-valley-view-football","tag-wilson-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57583,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57566\/revisions\/57583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}