{"id":10337,"date":"2012-12-28T03:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2012-12-28T03:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:17:32","slug":"football-sjsu-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/football-sjsu-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State Footballers Overcome Adversity To Become Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/spartan.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C.&#8211;Everyone seemed to count out San Jose State&#8217;s chances in yesterday&#8217;s Military Bowl, except for the Spartan team and what was left of its coaching staff. It&#8217;s head coach left a practice earlier this month to become head coach at Colorado. Rumors indicated that the Spartan&#8217;s interim bowl coach and defensive coach also would be leaving to join Colorado after the game. Perhaps some other coaches might be leaving as well. Even the team&#8217;s local paper predicted they would lose to their bowl opponent, defense-juggernaut Bowling Green.<\/p>\n<p>So much for distractions to the remarkable, focused San Jose athletes. (In fact, there should be a NCAA Rule that coaches should not be allowed to leave a team until after a Bowl Game. There were several other major colleges, who lost their top coaches prior to bowl appearances this year. It&#8217;s just not right for the student athletes, who put everything on the line for their coaches.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/football-sjsu.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Washington, D.C.&#8211;Everyone seemed to count out San Jose State&#8217;s chances in yesterday&#8217;s Military Bowl, except for the Spartan team and what was left of its coaching staff. It&#8217;s head coach left a practice earlier this month to become head coach at Colorado. Rumors indicated that the Spartan&#8217;s interim bowl coach and defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}