{"id":1943969,"date":"2026-11-13T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943969"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:11:24","slug":"nc-state-to-hire-wolfpack-legend-philip-rivers-as-next-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943969","title":{"rendered":"NC State to hire Wolfpack legend Philip Rivers as next football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers, who played quarterback for NC State from 2000 to 2003, has spent the last six seasons as the head coach at St. Michael Catholic High School in Alabama. He has no collegiate or professional coaching experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/ncstate-football-philip-rivers-hired-coach-wolfpack-contract-board-november-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers, who played quarterback for NC State from 2000 to 2003, has spent the last six seasons as the head coach at St. Michael Catholic High&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943970,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943969\/revisions\/1943970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}