{"id":1969,"date":"2013-12-04T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2013-12-04T21:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:37:03","slug":"marques-tuiasosopo-will-coach-washington-in-bowl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/04\/marques-tuiasosopo-will-coach-washington-in-bowl-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Marques Tuiasosopo will coach Washington in bowl game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1970\" alt=\"tuiasosopo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/tuiasosopo.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/tuiasosopo.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/tuiasosopo-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Steve Sarkisian leaving Washington for USC the Huskies need a head coach for their upcoming bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Enter former quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Tuiasosopo is in his first year as the quarterbacks coach at Washington and now will take on a larger role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m humbled and so honored. It\u2019s a great, incredible honor to lead my alma mater in a bowl game. We still have a lot to play for this season. I am excited to go out and get a ninth win&#8221; Tuiasosopo said about the opportunity, via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattletimes.com\/huskyfootball\/2013\/12\/04\/marques-tuiasosopo-named-uws-interim-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Seattle Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a senior in 2000, Tuiasosopo led the Huskies to an 11-1 record with a win over Purdue in the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Steve Sarkisian leaving Washington for USC the Huskies need a head coach for their upcoming bowl game. Enter former quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo. The 34-year-old Tuiasosopo is in his first year as the quarterbacks coach at Washington and now will take on a larger role. &#8220;I\u2019m humbled and so honored. It\u2019s a great, incredible honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[135,159,134,124],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","category-ncaafb-topstory","tag-front","tag-marques-tuiasosopo","tag-ncaafb","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}