{"id":2159,"date":"2015-03-21T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2015-04-21T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:44:02","slug":"report-michigan-assistant-jeff-meyer-in-the-mix-for-liberty-head-coaching-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Report: Michigan assistant Jeff Meyer in the mix for Liberty head coaching opening\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">According to&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GoodmanESPN\/status\/579325332718632960\" style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">ESPN.com&#8217;s Jeff Goodman<\/a><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">, the Michigan assistant coach, Jeff Meyer, is &#8220;in the equation&#8221; for the vacant head coaching position at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where Meyer previously served as head coach for 16 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Meyer is under contract at U-M through 2017-18. He earned $180,000 last season on a deal that will climb to $220,000 in 2017-18. He also earns a &#8220;stay bonus&#8221; worth $25,000 after each year of his contract.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">As head coach at Liberty from 1981-97, Meyer built a 259-206 record to become the Flames&#8217; all-time winningest coach. He led the program through its transition from NAIA to NCAA Division I in the late 1980s\/early 1990s and ultimately took Liberty to the 1994 NCAA tournament as Big South Conference champions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to&nbsp;ESPN.com&#8217;s Jeff Goodman, the Michigan assistant coach, Jeff Meyer, is &#8220;in the equation&#8221; for the vacant head coaching position at Liberty University in Lynchburg,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2159\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Michigan assistant Jeff Meyer in the mix for Liberty head coaching opening\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4443.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}