One of the staff's hardest working and brightest young coaching minds,
Brendan Nugent has also proven to be one the program's most versatile. Nugent
has overseen three position groups during his five seasons with the Tribe and will
continue working with the running backs for the second-consecutive year during
the 2011 campaign.
Nugent recruits the Virginia peninsula and northern neck areas, as well as
South Florida and Texas.
In his first year mentoring the running backs last season, he helped a pair
of W&M standouts garner first-team all-conference honors as tailback
Jonathan Grimes and fullback Jimmy Hobson both earned the distinction. The duo
added to a rapidly growing list of players who have benefited from Nugent's tutelage,
as former wide receiver D.J. McAulay (2008) and former tight end Rob Varno
(2009) also earned all-league accolades. In his first year at the College, he
helped groom All-American tight end Drew Atchison (2007), who went on to ink an
NFL free agent deal.
Nugent was exposed to the collegiate coaching game by working as the
offensive undergraduate assistant on Kirk Ferentz's staff at the University of
Iowa during the 2005 and 2006 seasons. In this position, Nugent worked directly
with Iowa offensive coordinator, Ken O'Keefe, assisting him with day-to-day and
game day operations.
Aside from his on-field work with Iowa's offense and the defensive scout teams,
some of his additional responsibilities included playbook and opponent scouting
preparation and extensive work with editing instructional footage on the team's
XOS Sagio Video System.
His first job in the coaching ranks came at Archbishop Stepinac High School in
his hometown of White Plains, N.Y., where he served as the Crusaders'
linebacker coach for the 2004 season.
As a player, Nugent lettered three seasons at linebacker at Catholic University
of America. He went onto earn his undergraduate degree in political science
from the University of Iowa in December of 2006.
Nugent is single and resides in Williamsburg.
