{"id":117242,"date":"2017-09-11T22:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T02:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=117242"},"modified":"2017-09-11T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T02:41:41","slug":"northern-arizonas-souers-stepping-down-after-2017-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/11\/northern-arizonas-souers-stepping-down-after-2017-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona&#8217;s Souers stepping down after 2017 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117246\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/14355523_10210544123779295_168604356820835934_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/14355523_10210544123779295_168604356820835934_n.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Northern Arizona coach Jerome Souers is stepping down after this season. (Photo: Jerome Souers\/Facebook) \" width=\"717\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/14355523_10210544123779295_168604356820835934_n.jpg 717w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/14355523_10210544123779295_168604356820835934_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/14355523_10210544123779295_168604356820835934_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Northern Arizona coach Jerome Souers is stepping down after this season. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10201071126920294&amp;set=ecnf.1231934776&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jerome.souers\">Jerome Souers\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Longtime Northern Arizona coach Jerome Souers is stepping down after this season.<\/p>\n<p>Souers made the announcement at a news conference with athletic director Lisa Campos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old Souers is in his 20th season coaching the Lumberjacks, who are off to an 0-2 start this season. Souers is the winningest coach in Big Sky Conference history with 112 wins and coached 84 FCS All-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Souers led the Lumberjacks to a winning record in his first season and was named the Big Sky&#8217;s coach of the year the next season, in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>He previously spent 12 years at Montana, the final eight as defensive co-ordinator. The Grizzlies won a national title in 1995 and were national runner-up the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Northern Arizona coach Jerome Souers is stepping down after this season. Souers made the announcement at a news conference &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":117246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[23546,23544,23543,23545],"class_list":["post-117242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-big-sky-conference","tag-jerome-souers","tag-northern-arizona","tag-souers","mauthors-john-marshall","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}