Current position | |
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Title | Defensive coordinator |
Team | Arizona State |
Conference | Big 12 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Glendale, Arizona, U.S. | May 22, 1973
Playing career | |
1994–1996 | McPherson |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1997 | McPherson (DC/ST) |
1999–2000 | Glendale (AZ) (DC/DB) |
2001–2004 | Wabash (AHC/DB/ST) |
2005 | Missouri Southern (AHC/co-DC/ST) |
2006 | Tulsa Union HS (OK) (AHC/DC) |
2007–2009 | McPherson |
2010 | North Dakota State (DB) |
2011 | Drake (DC/LB) |
2012–2014 | Western Illinois (DC/LB) |
2015 | Bowling Green (DC / LB / interim HC) |
2016–2019 | Syracuse (DC) |
2020–2021 | Nevada (DC) |
2022 | Washington State (DC) |
2023–present | Arizona State (DC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 17–15 |
Bowls | 0–1 |
Tournaments | 0–1 (NAIA playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
AFCA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year (2002) | |
Brian Patrick Ward (born May 22, 1973) is an American football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator at Arizona State University. Ward served as the head football coach at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas from 2007 to 2009 and as the interim head football coach at Bowling Green State University for one game in 2015. As an assistant coach at Wabash College in 2002, he was named the AFCA Assistant Coach of the Year for NCAA Division III.