Brent Guy

Education

Guy graduated from Booker High School in Booker, Texas and attended Oklahoma State University, where he was a defensive end and linebacker before graduating with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration.

Career

Guy currently serves as the safeties coach for the Memphis Tigers. Guy also served as head football coach at Utah State University from 2005 to 2008, compiling an overall record of nine wins and 38 losses. He played on the Independence Bowl team that still holds the school record for total defense (giving up 268 yards per game).

Guy began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at Oklahoma State in 1986.

After two seasons, he was promoted to the position of recruiting coordinator (1988) and then served as the Cowboys linebackers coach (1989–1991). He subsequently coached at Utah State from 1992 through 1994, working with the linebackers under then head coach Charlie Weatherbie.

Guy returned to Oklahoma State in 1995 as the Cowboys linebackers coach. From 1998 to 2000, he served as defensive coordinator at Boise State before taking a similar position at Arizona State.

Guy was responsible for running a defense that was 1st in total defense, scoring defense, and rush defense both years.

Guy served as the Sun Devils defensive coordinator for four seasons. In 2004, Arizona State University went 9–3 and defeated Purdue in the Sun Bowl. That marked the Sun Devils" second bowl appearance in three years.

Arizona State University"s defense finished that year ranked 28th nationally in rushing defense, 32nd in pass efficiency defense and 48th in both total and scoring defense.

Guy left Arizona State in 2005, returning to Utah State to become the head coach. Between 2005 to 2008, Guy led the Aggies to a 9–38 record.

Following his firing at USU, he was the linebackers coach at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2009) and Louisville (2010). Guy was named defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at the University of Tulsa on January 21, 2011.

That year, Tulsa"s defense set school records in sacks and tackles for loss, finishing second and third in the nation respectively.

Tulsa finished the season ranked in the top 25 in defense. In each of his first three seasons at the school, a Golden Hurricane linebacker earned first-team All-Conference United States of America honors — Curnelius Arnick (2011), DeAundre Brown (2012), and Shawn Jackson (2013). Jackson, who was also named the 2013 Conference United States of America defensive player of the year, finished his career as Tulsa"s all-time leader in sacks (235) and tackles for loss (555), and second all-time in tackles (409).

Achievements

• In that time, the Aggies won a Big West Conference Championship and posted the first bowl victory in school history, winning the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl 42–33 against Ball State. During his time at Boise State, the Broncos won 2 conference championships, the first Division-1 conference championship in school history. Boise State went on to win back to back Humanitarian Bowl Games during that time. Guy"s 2002 Holiday Bowl defense set school records for sacks and Tackles for Loss (TFLs) with the help of future NFL Super Bowl Champion Terrel Suggs who won the Lombardi and Outland Trophies, thanks in large part to setting the National Collegiate Athletic Association single season sack record. During his tenure, the team failed to win more than three games in any of his four seasons. In 2012, the Golden Hurricane went on to win the Conference United States of America Championship and finished ranked in the top 25 after defeating Iowa State in the Liberty Bowl 31–17. While at Louisville, Guy made a cameo appearance in the 2011 Academy Award winning documentary Undefeated.