Brent Brennan

San Jose State head football coach Brent Brennan has many ties to Hawaii, starting with his tenure with a graduate assistant at UH in 1998. Brennan has also been back many times as a coach, dating back to his time as an assistant coach on SJSU’s staff in 2005. He was also Oregon State’s receivers coach from 2011 to 2016, which included three trips to the islands as an opposing coach.

When his team plays at Hawaii on Saturday night, San Jose State head coach Brent Brennan understandably will have more on his mind and in his heart than simply winning. “This game will be an emotional deal for me just because that’s still pretty fresh for all of us and everybody is still really missing him,” Brennan said in his weekly Zoom news conference Monday.

It will be an emotional return for San Jose State football coach Brent Brennan when the Spartans play Hawaii this Saturday at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex. Read more. Mahalo for reading the Honolulu Star-Advertiser!. You're reading a premium story. Read the full story with our Print & Digital...

San Jose State head coach Brent Brennan has a long history with the Beavers. Prior to taking over at SJSU, Brennan was the wide receivers coach at Oregon State. Under the legendary Mike Riley, Brennan helped to start the rebuild process of the Oregon State program. [Listen to the Talkin'...

Following one of its greatest seasons in the modern college football era, San Jose State has its first national Coach of the Year in Brent Brennan. On Wednesday, the Lombardi Foundation awarded Brennan its College Football Coach of the Year award for 2020. Brennan was one of four finalists along with Tom Allen of Indiana, Matt Campbell of Iowa State, and Jamey Chadwell of Coastal Carolina. This award is named in memory of Vince Lombardi, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who won two Super Bowls as Green Bay Packers head coach.

(Ethan Miller/Getty Images) (SAN JOSE, Calif.) San Jose State football coach Brent Brennan was named the 2020 Lombardi Foundation national Coach of the Year award on Wednesday.

Houston, Texas ----- For leading San Jose State University to one of its most successful seasons in school history in the midst of a global pandemic and months of statewide wildfires, the Lombardi Foundation named Spartans' head coach Brent Brennan, its 2020 College Football Coach of the Year. One of...