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Brent Myers
Offensive Line/Running Game Coordinator
Brent Myers, who has 26 years of collegiate
coaching experience, will coach the offensive line
and be the running game coordinator after spending
three seasons as offensive line coach and runninggame
coordinator at Arizona State. He also coached
one season as the assistant head coach and offensive
line coach at the University of Utah in 2003.
In 2006, the Sun Devils finished second in the
Pac-10 averaging 169.7 yards rushing per game. It
marks the first time since 2001 that ASU averaged
more than 150 yards on the ground. 2006 also
marked another milestone for the ASU rushing
game, as Ryan Torain topped the 1,000 yard mark
and sophomore Keegan Herring topped the 500 yard
plateau.
In 2005, the Sun Devil offensive line was
decimated by injuries, however with the adversity
came perhaps the best job of any offensive line
coach in the nation as ASU finished the season
ranked No. 2 in the nation in total offense (519.1
yards per game), including a school record 773
yards in ASU’s 52-21 win over Northwestern. Even
more impressive is the fact that ASU rushed for
145.7 yards per game, its highest average since the
2001 season.
Three ASU linemen - Grayling Love (second
team), Andrew Carnahan (honorable mention) and
Brandon Rodd (honorable mention) - earned All
Pac-10 honors in 2005.
In his first season at ASU, Myers coached a
successful offensive line, which helped the Sun
Devils rank No. 5 in the nation in passing offense
and No. 16 in total offense (435.4 yards per game).
Honorable-mention All-Pac-10 selection center
Drew Hodgdon was selected in the fifth round of the
NFL draft by the Houston Texans. Also excelling on
the line was Love, who earned both first-team All-
Pac-10 and Pac-10 All-Academic honors.
In 2003, Myers was part of a Utah staff that led
the school to the Mountain West Conference
championship, the school’s first outright conference
title since 1957. The Utes posted a 10-2 record,
defeated Southern Mississippi in the Liberty Bowl
and finished 21st in the national polls.
No stranger to the Pac-10, Myers spent three
seasons as the offensive line coach at Washington
(2000-02). In 2000, Myers oversaw one of the
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nation’s best blocking units that helped Washington
claim the Pac-10 title and a victory over Purdue in
the 2001 Rose Bowl. Elliot Silvers and Chad Ward
were All-Pac-10 selections and were taken in the
NFL Draft that year, while a third, Wes Call, signed a
free agent contract. Ward also won the Morris
Trophy, given to the Pac-10’s top lineman, and was a
second-team All-American. In 2001, he coached All-
Pac-10 and regional Academic All-America selection
Kyle Benn, while in 2002, Myers’ unit’s passblocking
abilities helped quarterback Cody Pickett to
set a single-season passing record with 4,458 yards.
Myers rejoined Dirk Koetter’s staff after working
as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach
for two seasons (1998-99) at Boise State. In 1999,
BSU led the Big West in offense with 33 points per
game while posting a 10-3 record. Myers joined the
BSU staff in 1998 and was promoted to offensive
coordinator before the start of the 1999 season. He
helped lead BSU to the 1999 Big West Conference
championship and a victory over Louisville in the
Humanitarian Bowl.
Myers also coached at Eastern Washington (1982-
83, 1985-91), Southern Illinois (1984) and Northern
Arizona (1992-97). He was named associate head
coach at NAU in 1994 and offensive coordinator in
1996. That year, the Lumberjacks led the nation in
total offense and scoring and became the first
Division I team to have a 3,000-yard passer (Travis
Brown) and a 2,000-yard rusher (Archie Ammerson)
in the same season. For his efforts, Myers was named
the national Division I-AA Offensive Coordinator of
the Year in 1996.
A Seattle native, Myers earned his B.A. in
education degree from Eastern Washington in 1982.
He received his M.S. degree from EWU in 1986 and
coached at his alma mater from 1985 to 1991 in a
variety of positions including tight ends, offensive
line, linebackers and defensive line.
As a player, Myers was a Division II honorable
mention All-American at EWU in 1981. He attended
Columbia Basin Junior College from 1978-79 and
helped his team to the 1978 national championship as
the starting center on the offensive line. Myers and
his wife, Susan, have a daughter, Morgan (9).
Myers at a Glance
PERSONAL
Birthdate: May 25, 1960
Hometown: Seattle, Wash.
Alma Mater: Eastern Washington ‘82
Family: Married to Susan and the couple has one
daughter, Morgan.
COACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 Louisville
2004-06 Arizona State
2003 Utah
2000-02 Washington
1998-99 Boise State
1992-97 Northern Arizona
1985-91 Eastern Washington
1984 Southern Illinois
1982-83 Eastern Washington
BOWLS AS A COACH
2006 Sheraton Hawaii
2005 Insight
2004 Sun
2003 Liberty
2002 Sun
2001 Holiday
2000 Rose
1999 Humanitarian
RECRUITING AREAS
East Central Florida (East of Lakeland), North
Carolina, Northern California, Hawaii