With Trent Bray and Kyle Bjornstad, everything you want to know about Beaver football — Kerry Eggers
For the past two months, Trent Bray has been as much change agent as head football coach at Oregon State.
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Bray said the idea of taking over as defensive coordinator has been brewing for awhile.
“This has been something I have been thinking about a lot,” he said. “As we were going through the back half of the season, after Keith and I had a conversation that (his resignation) might be coming, I started going through the process of figuring out the amount of time it would take to do all the game-planning and head coaching stuff.”
So during the second half of the season, the Beavers were using Heyward’s defensive game plans, but Bray was privately drawing up his own, just to see if he could handle the time commitment to perform both duties.
“And I was able to do it,” he said. “I created all the things I would normally create (as D-coordinator) in addition to doing the head coaching. That’s where I started thinking, ‘OK, this is possible.’ And part of the thought was, I got this job based on the way we were able to turn this program around because of how we played on defense. For me not to drive the bus, it made less sense to me as I thought about it.”
Last season, Bray was more CEO than on-the-field coach. He became convinced that had to change next season. He has to take a more active role in the defense.
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