{"id":480317,"date":"2025-12-30T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:37:12","slug":"dallas-renegades-hire-rick-neuheisel-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480317\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Renegades hire Rick Neuheisel as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3j5oauigb3emjn76.jpg\" alt=\"Who is the new head coach for the Dallas Renegades?\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; The UFL\u2019s Dallas Renegades will see big changes when the next season of spring football begins in March. Most importantly, the team has a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>   New Head Coach <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-134593409.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">EUGENE, OR &#8211; DECEMBER 02 : Head coach Rick Neuheisel of the UCLA Bruins celebrates as the Bruins score a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Pac-12 Championship against Oregon Ducks at Autzen Stadium on December 2, 2011 in Eugene, Oregon. It was N <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">For the first time, someone other than Bob Stoops will be the Renegades&#8217; head coach.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The team has hired former UCLA Bruins Head Coach Rick Neuheisel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Neuheisel has an extensive resume. In addition to his tenure at UCLA, he was also a head coach at the University of Colorado and the University of Washington, and he served as an assistant coach for the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He also has experience as a player for UCLA and in the NFL. And he\u2019s been a network TV analyst during the college football season.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Stoops announced his retirement in mid-December after nearly five decades of coaching football.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He has coached at the professional and collegiate levels, winning 10 Big 12 Championships and a BCS National Championship at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Stoops has been the Renegades coach since 2020, winning an XFL Championship with the team in 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">In a statement, he said he decided to retire because it\u2019s the right time for him to step aside, be with family, and embrace the next chapter of his life.<\/p>\n<p> Renegades Move to Frisco <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">In addition to a new head coach, the Renegades&#8217; games will also move from Choctaw Stadium in Arlington to Toyota Stadium in Frisco for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The new season kicks off on March 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> FOX 4&#8217;s Dan Godwin gathered information in this story from the Dallas Renegades and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/xfl\/renegades\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Renegades<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; The UFL\u2019s Dallas Renegades will see big changes when the next season of spring football begins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,207295,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,70307],"class_list":["post-480317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-renegades","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-xfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809264902809721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}