Ray Brown - Football Coach - Boston College Athletics

Ray Brown

Title:
Secondary
Email:
brownrad@bc.edu
Phone:
552-3010

Ray Brown joined Boston College as the secondary coach on Bill O’Brien’s first staff in 2024. He arrived at BC after a two-year stint as the cornerbacks coach at Washington State. Overall, Brown has 14 years of experience coaching in college football.

Washington State’s 2022 defense ranked this in the Pac-12 at 22.9 points per game and contributed to a seven-win regular season. In that season, Brown coached All-Pac-12 honorable mention selection Chau Smith-Wade, who earned the league’s third-best defensive grade among cornerbacks, according to PFF.

Prior to WSU, Brown served as the cornerbacks coach at Utah State (2021) and Troy (2019-20). He helped the Aggies to an 11-3 record and a victory over Oregon State in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl at the end of the 2021 season. The win capped an impressive turnaround after USU went 1-5 in an abbreviated, Covid-impacted 2020 season. At Troy, Brown coached Terence Dunlap to second-team All-Sun Belt honors as he intercepted three passes and 11 PBUs. In 2019, Trojan corner Will Sunderland was first-team All-Sun Belt with four interceptions before signing with the Green Bay Packers.

Brown spent three years at Abilene Christian as the defensive backs coach from 2016-18. The Wildcats set a school record for interceptions in 2018 with 13, paced by All-Southland honorable mention Adonis Davis’ four as he led the league and was ninth in FCS in passes defended. The 2018 ACU squad also ranked sixth nationally in fourth-down defense (26.3 percent), 15th in third-down defense (30.3) and 16th in rushing defense (113.0 yards per game).

Brown had two Pac-12 stops early in his career as a graduate assistant at Arizona State (2014-15), preceded by one year as a graduate assistant at Washington State (2013). While working with the Sun Devils’ cornerbacks, he played a key role in ASU signing the No. 1 and No. 2-rated junior college corners in the country. Arizona State completed its second of back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2014 by claiming the 2015 Sun Bowl over Duke. During his time at ASU, cornerback Kareem Orr earned Freshman All-America honors. In his first stint at WSU, he worked with the Cougar safeties as Washington State made its first bowl appearance in 10 years; led by head coach Mike Leach. Safety Deone Bucannon earned All-America honors and was selected in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft with the 27th overall pick by the Arizona Cardinals.

Brown attended East Central University in Ada, Okla. and graduated in 2009 with a degree in business marketing. He was a four-year starter at cornerback. Brown stayed at ECU as an assistant coach for two seasons before moving on to Oklahoma Baptist as the special teams coordinator.

Brown and his wife Amber have three children; Gavin, Rylin and Peyton.

The Brown File
Alma Mater: East Central (Okla.) University, 2009
Degrees: Business Marketing; Master’s in Sports Administration, 2011
Family: Wife Amber; children Gabin, Rylin and Peyton

Coaching Career
2024: Boston College, Secondary
2022-23: Washington State, Cornerbacks
2021: Utah State, Cornerbacks
2019-20: Troy, Cornerbacks
2016-18: Abilene Christian, Defensive Backs
2014-15: Arizona State, Graduate Assistant/Cornerbacks
2013: Washington State, Graduate Assistant/Safeties
2012: Oklahoma Baptist, Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Backs
2010-11: East Central University, Run-Game Coordinator/Running Backs