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Sam Bennett Head Shot 2020

Sam Bennett

YEARS COACHING
  • Hawai‘i: 2nd season
  • Overall: 9th season
 
ALMA MATER
  • Texas Tech, 2010
 
COACHING EXPERIENCE
  • Hawai‘i, Run Game Coordinator/Offensive Line (2020)
  • Arizona Cardinals, Coaching Assistant (2019)
  • Arizona State, Offensive Analyst (2018), Graduate Assistant (2016-17)
  • Rice, Graduate Assistant (2014-15)
  • Irving HS, Defensive Line (2011)
     
COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
  • Spent a season on the Arizona Cardinals offensive staff under head coach Kliff Kingsbury
  • Assisted with daily practice and game planning in all facets of the offense as the Cardinals finished fifth in the NFC in rushing.
  • Previously spent three seasons at Arizona State under Todd Graham.
  • During that span, the Sun Devils offense averaged 31.7 points and 413.3 yards per game.
  • In his final year in Tempe in 2018 as an offensive analyst, running back Eno Benjamin became the first Sun Devil to lead the Pac-12 in rushing with a program-record 1,642 yards.
  • Also helped steer an offense that saw quarterback Manny Wilkins notch his second consecutive 3,000-yard passing season and all-Pac-12 receiver and eventual NFL first-round pick N'Keal Harry tally over 1,000 yards receiving.  
  • As a GA at ASU in his first two years, Bennett primarily worked with the offensive line and tight ends, who helped pave the way for running back Demario Richard to a 1,000-yard rushing season.
  • Spent two years as an offensive graduate assistant at Rice, where he worked primarily with the quarterbacks and offensive line.
  • In his first year in 2014, the Owls won eight games capped by a win over Fresno State in the Hawai'i Bowl.
     
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
  • SMU, 2006-07

PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS
  • Named to the all-Conference USA freshman team in 2006.
 
EDUCATION
  • Texas Tech, B.A., Advertising (2010)
  • Arizona State, M.A., Liberal Arts & Sciences (2017)
 
HOMETOWN
  • Dallas, Texas
 
PERSONAL
  • Wife: Stephanie; Daughter: Scottie
  • Son of Phil Bennett, a collegiate veteran and former head coach at SMU.