{"id":325967,"date":"2025-12-02T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325967\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:11:11","slug":"ohio-university-names-john-hauser-interim-head-coach-of-ohio-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325967\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio University Names John Hauser Interim Head Coach of Ohio Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ATHENS, Ohio\u2014\u00a0John Hauser<\/a>\u00a0has been named\u00a0Interim\u00a0Head Coach of the Ohio football program. Hauser has served as\u00a0associate head coach and defensive coordinator for the Bobcats\u00a0since\u00a0December\u00a02024\u00a0and has\u00a0been\u00a0with the team since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Head\u00a0Coach Brian Smith<\/a>\u00a0will\u00a0be on leave for an undetermined period of time beginning\u00a0December 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hauser’s leadership of Ohio’s defense has been credited as one of the factors that led the team to its Mid-American Conference Championship in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bobcats wrapped up their regular season play Friday, November 28 in Buffalo with a 31-26 win against the Bulls. Ohio (8-4, 6-2 MAC) is awaiting a bowl\u00a0selection,\u00a0which will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football 12\/1\/2025 5:15:00 PM Story Links ATHENS, Ohio\u2014\u00a0John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-325967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}