{"id":109996,"date":"2020-01-22T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=109996"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:06:26","slug":"introduces-coach-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/introduces-coach-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> introduces new football coach Graham"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Graham\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Athletic Director <strong>David Matlin<\/strong> introduced the new head football coach to the public on Wednesday. <strong>Todd Graham<\/strong> is the 24th head coach of the Rainbow Warrior football team. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the media had the opportunity to ask Graham about his plans for the program at a news conference on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Â鶹´«Ã½,<\/span> this is your football team. I am very humbled and very honored to be your coach,&rdquo; Graham said. &ldquo;We&#8217;ll be a program about winning championships. Winning will be defined by not only what we do on the football field, but what we do in the classroom and what we do in the community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham_football-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Graham\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-110015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham_football-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham_football-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham_football-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coach_Todd_Graham_football.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em>Â鶹´«Ã½News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/graham-new-football-coach\/\">Graham picked to lead Rainbow Warrior football<\/a>, January 21, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Graham last coached the Arizona State Sun Devils from 2012-17 leading them to the PAC-12 Championship game in his second season at the helm. Graham also head coached at Pittsburgh (2011), Tulsa (2007\u201310) and Rice (2006). <\/p>\n<p>Hear more about what Coach Graham had to say at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/1\/22\/todd-graham-introduced-as-hawai-i-head-football-coach.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Coach Todd Graham says he Â鶹´«Ã½football will be a about winning on and off the field.<\/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-109996","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\/109996","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=109996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110018,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109996\/revisions\/110018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}