{"id":27474,"date":"2014-12-19T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lions-introduce-tedford-as-new-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:42:00","slug":"lions-introduce-tedford-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lions-introduce-tedford-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions introduce Tedford as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The British Columbia Lions formally introduced Jeff Tedford as head coach on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tedford takes over for Mike Benevides, who was let go on Nov. 20 despite compiling a 33-21 record over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeff has competed on football&#8217;s biggest stages and achieved great success,&#8221; said Lions VP of football operations and general manager Wally Buono. &#8220;It speaks volumes about our organization and our league that a coach of Jeff&#8217;s stature and appeal has chosen the Lions as his next great challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old Tedford last prowled the sidelines for the University of California, compiling a 50-45 record over 11 seasons from 2002-12. He led the Golden Bears to eight bowl berths and five bowl wins in that span.<\/p>\n<p>A Fresno State product who played in the CFL from 1983-1988 as a quarterback with Hamilton, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, Tedford is reunited with Buono whom he worked with and under in Calgary as an offensive assistant from 1989 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always loved Vancouver, my wife and I. This is a quality of life that is important to us. My wife is Canadian, my kids were born here,&#8221; Tedford said. &#8220;Joining the Lions today is the beginning of a new chapter and I look forward to the challenge of bringing a championship to BC.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The British Columbia Lions formally introduced Jeff Tedford as head coach on Friday. Tedford takes over for Mike Benevides, who was let go on Nov. 20 despite compiling a 33-21 record over the last three seasons. &#8220;Jeff has competed on football&#8217;s biggest stages and achieved great success,&#8221; said Lions VP of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}