{"id":472203,"date":"2023-12-08T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472203"},"modified":"2023-12-08T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:40:21","slug":"duke-wants-diaz-to-be-their-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/duke-wants-diaz-to-be-their-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke announces Diaz as their new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State DC Manny Diaz made the headlines as a potential Duke&#8217;s next football manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to Duke, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coach_MannyDiaz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Coach_MannyDiaz<\/a>! \ud83d\ude08 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mQhNhm0Pb0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mQhNhm0Pb0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Duke Football (@DukeFOOTBALL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DukeFOOTBALL\/status\/1732943074660171936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manny has been the main target in the past month, and the contract is expected to be inked within a day. Duke recently finished its interviews for the managerial position in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz finished a campaign in which he led the nation&#8217;s top statistical defense, as the Nittany Lions held opponents to 223.2 yards per match \u2013 the most impressive single-campaign defensive performance in college football since Alabama in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Manny also has head-coaching experience in the ACC; as a boss of Miami, he led the program to 3-Bowl eligible campaigns during his 3 seasons there from 2019 to 2021. However, Miami decided to dismiss him after 3 campaigns despite having a positive record at 21-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State DC Manny Diaz made the headlines as a potential Duke&#8217;s next football manager. Welcome to Duke, @Coach_MannyDiaz! \ud83d\ude08 pic.twitter.com\/mQhNhm0Pb0 \u2014 Duke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19523,21838],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[19525,21840,22290],"acf":{"announce":"Duke wants Diaz to be their new head coach","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472207,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472203\/revisions\/472207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472203"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472203"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}