{"id":65869,"date":"2018-12-26T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=65869"},"modified":"2018-12-26T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:55:17","slug":"la-salle-buys-in-on-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=65869","title":{"rendered":"La Salle Buys in on New Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65870\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=65870\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65870\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65870\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ben-buys--e1545890007146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ben-buys--e1545890007146.jpg 311w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ben-buys--e1545890007146-60x70.jpg 60w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ben-buys--e1545890007146-257x300.jpg 257w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ben-buys--e1545890007146-129x150.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Buys, formerly on the staff at Azusa Pacific, is the new HC at La Salle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Pasadena) &#8211; Ben Buys, who has been on the staff at Azusa Pacific for the last nine years, was named the new head football coach at La Salle Wednesday <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for the future with the program. I think it will be a really good situation,&#8221; Buys said.<\/p>\n<p>Buys played at Azusa Pacific and then later j0ined head coach Victor Santa Cruz&#8217; staff in 2010. During a nine-year span with the Cougars Buys did everything from run game coordinator and running backs coach to team chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really enjoyed my time at Azusa Pacific. I really wasn&#8217;t looking to leave, but this opportunity was really good. I&#8217;ve been wanting to lead a program and this one was a great fit,&#8221; Buys said.<\/p>\n<p>Buys takes over for Andrew Pankow who went 0-10 last year as the interim coach. Russell Gordon resigned after the 2017 season after a seven-year run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Pasadena) &#8211; Ben Buys, who has been on the staff at Azusa Pacific for the last nine years, was named the new head football coach at La Salle Wednesday<\/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":[12816],"tags":[13265,8101,13264,7498,7864,7040],"class_list":["post-65869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-andrew-pankow","tag-azusa-pacific-football","tag-ben-buys","tag-la-salle-football","tag-russell-gordon","tag-victor-santa-cruz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869","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=65869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65871,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions\/65871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}