{"id":240393,"date":"2026-03-28T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:52:09","slug":"former-csub-assistant-todd-lee-returns-to-bakersfield-after-30-year-wait-for-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240393\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CSUB assistant Todd Lee returns to Bakersfield after 30-year wait for dream job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A familiar face is returning to California State University, Bakersfield, marking what\u2019s being described as a new era for sports in the city.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/cal-state-bakersfield-announces-todd-lee-as-10th-head-coach-for-mens-basketball-kern-county-california-state-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cal State Bakersfield announces Todd Lee as 10th Head Coach for Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Todd Lee is coming back to the CSUB men&#8217;s basketball program three decades after he served as an assistant coach in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Now, 30 years later, Lee is back after waiting his turn, with his return framed as the kind of \u201cdream job\u201d coaches often talk about when they\u2019re hired.<\/p>\n<p>Lee takes over the head coaching duties after <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/rod-barnes-to-step-away-from-csub-mens-basketball-after-14-seasons-california-state-university-bakersfield-kern-county-california-sports-hometown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rod Barnes stepped away from the program in September 2025 after 14 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A familiar face is returning to California State University, Bakersfield, marking what\u2019s being described as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-240393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}