{"id":228,"date":"2008-01-07T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/07\/former-bu-kicker-named-dolphins-new-gm\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:33:54","slug":"former-bu-kicker-named-dolphins-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/former-bu-kicker-named-dolphins-new-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Former BU kicker named Dolphins&#8217; new GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ireland-then-and-now.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Ireland \u2014 then and now\" align=\"right\" \/>Former Baylor kicker Jeff Ireland made headlines last week when he was introduced as <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/wire?section=nfl&amp;id=3177624\" target=\"_blank\">the new general manager of the Miami Dolphins<\/a>. (For a transcript and video of the press conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/newsite\/theater\/dolphinstheater_press.asp\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Ireland lettered at Baylor from 1988-91 and still holds the school records for field goals made in a season (18) and career (45). After leaving Baylor, Ireland spent two years as a coach at North Texas, then worked as an NFL scout for over a decade before joining the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; front office in 2005, where he helped mold this year&#8217;s NFC East champs as vice president of college and pro scouting.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland was hired by new Dolphins guru Bill Parcels and given a daunting task: to turn around the Miami franchise. The 2007 Dolphins narrowly avoided becoming the first team in NFL history to go 0-16; Miami picked up its lone victory of the season in week 15.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Jeff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Baylor kicker Jeff Ireland made headlines last week when he was introduced as the new general manager of the Miami Dolphins. (For a transcript and video of the press conference, click here.) Ireland lettered at Baylor from 1988-91 and still holds the school records for field goals made in a season (18) and career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}