Men’s Soccer Head Coach Doug Allison places an exclamation point on a 31-year career at Furman University when he retires after this season. The No. 16 seed Paladins earned a bid to the NCAA College Cup, or the final four, in a season boasting the nation’s longest unbeaten streak at 14 games. That run was broken when the Paladins faced and fell to Washington 3-1 in Cary, North Carolina, Dec. 12.<\/p>\n
Todd Shanesy, a sports writer for The Greenville News<\/a> (subscription required), spoke to Allison about his retirement and what’s next for him. As for the Paladins, he said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a great future here. The culture we\u2019ve built is special.\u201d<\/p>\n A photo gallery<\/a> by The Greenville News’ Alex Martin, a clip<\/a> from a post-game presser and this story<\/a> are also available on the News.<\/p>\n Pre-game coverage appeared on FOX Carolina<\/a> including comments from Furman Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Jason Donnelly, fans and alumni. FOX Carolina covered the post-game press conference here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some content from The Greenville News requires a subscription. Furman ID holders may access articles through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greenville News follows Furman Men’s Soccer to Cary, N.C., for the team’s first-ever College Cup appearance. Sports writer Todd Shanesy sits down with Head Coach Doug Allison to talk about his hopes for the Paladins and how he’ll spend his time after retirement. FOX Carolina also has pre- and post-game coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1569,118,6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40533"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40569,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533\/revisions\/40569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}