Pacific hires Keith Buckley as football coach when team returns to play in 2010.

Pacific hires Buckley as football coach for 2010

FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Former UC Davis assistant Keith Buckley has been hired as football coach at Pacific as the Boxers prepare for a return to action in 2010.

Pacific last fielded a football team in 1991. School officials decided this spring to revive the program as a way to increase enrollment.

Buckley has spent that last four seasons as an assistant at UC Davis, his alma mater, and helped guide the team in transition from Division II to Division I under head coach Bob Biggs.

Buckley has also had coaching stints at Humboldt State and Idaho.