  {"id":109315,"date":"2020-01-14T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=109315"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:48:22","slug":"rolo-leaves-for-wash-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/14\/rolo-leaves-for-wash-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Rolovich leaves <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> for Washington St."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_89354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89354\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-athletics-rolovich-field.jpg\" alt=\"Coach walking the sidelines\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-athletics-rolovich-field.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-athletics-rolovich-field-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Rolovich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa head football coach <strong>Nick Rolovich<\/strong> has informed <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> officials that he has accepted the head coach position at Washington State University.<\/p>\n<p>Rolovich returned to lead his alma mater at the end of 2015, succeeding Norm Chow.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nick called me tonight to inform me that he accepted the Washington State job. Our football team is in a better place because of Nick, and we wish him all the best. Our search for our next head coach begins immediately,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics Director <strong>David Matlin<\/strong> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rolovich ends his time at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> 28-27 in his career as <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> head coach, including a 15-17 record in the Mountain West. He also led <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> to a division title and its first appearance in the Mountain West Conference Championship this past season. The Rainbow Warriors went to three <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Bowls, winning two, during his four years at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State job opened when former Cougars coach Mike Leach left the school to accept the head coaching position at Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants for the position are encouraged to apply through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governmentjobs.com\/careers\/hawaiiedu\/jobs\/2683247\/head-football-coach?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> employment portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of leading the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> football team, Nick Rolovich heads to the Pacific Northwest to Washington State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,9,550],"class_list":["post-109315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109321,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109315\/revisions\/109321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}