{"id":6601,"date":"2018-04-13T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:51:52","slug":"chad-lunsford-named-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2018\/04\/13\/chad-lunsford-named-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Lunsford Named Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6602\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/chad-lunsford.jpg\" alt=\"chad lunsford holding a football emblazoned with his name and the georgia southern logo\" width=\"281\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/chad-lunsford.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/chad-lunsford-85x100.jpg 85w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/chad-lunsford-315x370.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>Georgia Southern President Jaimie Hebert, Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein and the Georgia Southern Board of Regents announced on Nov. 27, 2017,\u00a0 the hiring of Chad Lunsford as its head football coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just so humbling, and I\u2019m honored to be able to take over as the head coach of Georgia Southern football,\u201d Lunsford said. \u201cI want to thank the Lord for this opportunity. I\u2019m very blessed to be in this position because Georgia Southern is a very special place to my family and me. I\u2019m looking forward to carrying on the great tradition of Eagle Football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 campaign marked the ninth season overall for Lunsford, who has worn many hats in his time in Statesboro. Lunsford was promoted from assistant head coach to interim head coach on Oct. 22, 2017, and his team showed marked improvement each week, culminating with a 52-0 win over South Alabama and a 34-24 win over Louisiana on the road.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Lunsford was named a Broyles Award nominee, given to the nation\u2019s top assistant coach, and on the recruiting side, he was named the Sun Belt Conference\u2019s Best Recruiter in 2016 by Scout.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Tippy, have a son, Rhett, and two daughters, Sophie and Josie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Southern President Jaimie Hebert, Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein and the Georgia Southern Board of Regents announced on Nov. 27, 2017,\u00a0 the hiring of Chad Lunsford as its head football coach. \u201cThis is just so humbling, and I\u2019m honored to be able to take over as the head coach of Georgia Southern football,\u201d Lunsford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-spring-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}