{"id":106775,"date":"2025-12-31T22:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/106775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:51:31","slug":"utpb-hires-chris-softley-as-new-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/106775\/","title":{"rendered":"UTPB hires Chris Softley as new head football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; UT Permian Basin hired Chris Softley as the third head football coach in program history, the university announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Softley comes to Odessa from Lubbock Christian School, where he spent the last nine years (2016-2025) as the school\u2019s head football coach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In nine years, he led the Eagles to four state final appearances and two state championships in 2022 and 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As the LCS Athletic Director, he oversaw 10 state championships across six team sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Softley spent three seasons with Abilene Christian University as a Defensive Graduate Assistant Coach from 2008-2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new UTPB head football coach will be introduced at a press conference at the university\u2019s Kirk Auditorium on January 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KOSA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; UT Permian Basin hired Chris Softley as the third head football coach in program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-106775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}