{"id":7121,"date":"2017-12-19T16:45:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T21:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/19\/napier-named-head-coach-at-louisiana-lafayette\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:01:58","slug":"napier-named-head-coach-at-louisiana-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/napier-named-head-coach-at-louisiana-lafayette\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier named head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Billy Napier has been named head football coach at University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Napier was a two-time All-Southern Conference selection as the starting quarterback at Furman, and the Paladins won two league championships during his career (1998-2002). In 2001, his junior season, he led the team to the Division I-AA national championship game, losing to Montana. Napier is married to the former Ali Gunn, a 2003 Furman graduate. You can read more about Napier\u2019s new position in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycitizen.news\/sports\/local_sports\/napier-introduced-as-new-ragin-cajun-coach\/article_beafa38c-47c4-5e4d-9135-8489360dc970.html\">Daily Citizen News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Billy Napier has been named head football coach at University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Napier was a two-time All-Southern Conference selection as the starting quarterback at Furman, and the Paladins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}