{"id":40817,"date":"2026-01-28T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40817"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:02:06","slug":"mens-soccer-head-coach-doug-allison-reflects-on-college-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mens-soccer-head-coach-doug-allison-reflects-on-college-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Men&#8217;s Soccer Head Coach Doug Allison reflects on College Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Furman University Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2025\/4\/5\/mens-soccer-allison-announces-plans-to-retire-following-2025-season.aspx\">Doug Allison<\/a> sits down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/sports-entertainment-furmans-doug-allison-reflects-on-legendary-career\/70163973\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Marc Whiteman to reminisce about a historic season for men&#8217;s soccer that ended with Furman&#8217;s first-ever appearance in the NCAA College Cup. The Paladins cruised into the NCAA final on a 14-game unbeaten streak despite having one of the youngest teams in the country. Allison, who announced his retirement ahead of his 31st season with the Paladins, tells Whiteman what he&#8217;s most proud of across his career &#8211; and it&#8217;s not trophies, name recognition or glory. For Allison, it&#8217;s the legacy players create for their families and the culture the program has built. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of the culture that&#8217;s in Furman Soccer,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of the badge we live by.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Men&#8217;s Soccer Head Coach Doug Allison talks to WYFF News 4&#8217;s Marc Whiteman about his legendary career at Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,35,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817","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=40817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40825,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions\/40825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}