{"id":361,"date":"2016-05-23T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/?p=361"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:59:32","slug":"rick-villarreal-stepping-down-as-athletics-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/2016\/05\/23\/rick-villarreal-stepping-down-as-athletics-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Villarreal Stepping Down as Athletic&#8217;s Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 171<\/p><p>Embattled Athletic&#8217;s Director Rick Villarreal is stepping down; he will remain with the university until June 20. \u00a0University President\u00a0Neal Smatresk stated a search for his replacement will begin immediately. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/meangreenblog.dentonrc.com\/2016\/05\/breaking-villarreal-out-as-unts-athletic-director.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mean Green Blog<\/a> for more details on this surprising story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MGB breaking news &#8212; Rick Villarreal stepping down as UNT&#39;s athletic director: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ksUWpsdDkr\">https:\/\/t.co\/ksUWpsdDkr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cGBIERpkps\">pic.twitter.com\/cGBIERpkps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Vito (@brettvito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brettvito\/status\/734762366462795780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Official announcement from the North Texas Athletics Department:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Athletic Director Rick Villarreal Stepping Down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xBKb7kagGa\">https:\/\/t.co\/xBKb7kagGa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mean Green Sports (@MeanGreenSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeanGreenSports\/status\/734775399666745344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 171Embattled Athletic&#8217;s Director Rick Villarreal is stepping down; he will remain with the university until June 20. \u00a0University President\u00a0Neal Smatresk stated a search for his replacement will begin immediately. Go to the Mean Green Blog for more details on this surprising story. MGB breaking news &#8212; Rick Villarreal stepping down as UNT&#39;s athletic director:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ebqr-5P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}