{"id":80624,"date":"2025-12-04T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:43:09","slug":"cal-poly-names-new-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80624\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Poly names new head football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Skipper will be Cal Poly\u2019s new head football coach, the university announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper was UCLA\u2019s interim head coach during the past season. He has 25 years of collegiate coaching experience, having also worked in various coaching positions at Fresno State, Central Michigan, Colorado State, Florida, UNLV, Sacramento State, and Western New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper was a starting middle linebacker at Fresno State from 1997-2000, graduating in 2001 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely excited to become the next head football coach at Cal Poly and want to thank [Athletic Director] Carter Henderson and President Armstrong for entrusting me with this opportunity,\u201d Skipper said in a statement released by Cal Poly. \u201cThe \u2018Learn by Doing\u2019 approach and the academic excellence that has been achieved at Cal Poly have been inspiring to me for many years, and I look forward to pursuing the same type of excellence on the football field. It will take the full support of our community coming together to win championships, and I can\u2019t wait to engage with the Mustang family to chase our fullest potential together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In November, Cal Poly announced it was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksby.com\/san-luis-obispo\/cal-poly-parts-ways-with-head-football-coach-paul-wulff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">parting ways with Paul Wulff<\/a> after three years as head football coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Skipper will be Cal Poly\u2019s new head football coach, the university announced on Wednesday. Skipper was UCLA\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-80624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624","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=80624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}