Brent Dearmon (born December 19, 1984) is an

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coach who is currently the head coach at the

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. He was previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the

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, and

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. Dearmon was also the head coach at Bethel University in Tennessee, where he won a

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championship in his lone season there. He also played

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at Bethel, where he set career and single-season records in passing yards and touchdowns. Dearmon spent time playing professionally for indoor football teams before getting into coaching.

Coaching career

Dearmon began his coaching career as a student assistant at his alma mater

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in 2007 working with the defensive backs. He was hired to be the offensive coordinator at his high school alma mater

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in Alabama, while also working at the school as a math teacher. He was named the head coach at

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in Mobile in 2011, where he compiled a 5–15 record in his two seasons there before accepting an off the field coaching role at

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. He was a part of a trio of high school football coaches hired as analysts at Auburn in 2013 under first-year head coach

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. He left Auburn in 2014 to accept the offensive coordinator position at Arkansas Tech.

Bethel (second stint)

Dearmon was named the head coach at his alma mater

in 2018. In his lone season as the program's head coach, he compiled a 10–1 record and won a

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conference championship.

Kansas

Dearmon left Bethel in 2019 to accept a senior offensive analyst position at

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under

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. He was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach midway through the season after

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was fired.

Middle Tennessee State

Dearmon was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at

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in 2021.

North Alabama

He was announced as the head coach for the University of North Alabama on December 3, 2022."Brent Dearmon named head football coach at UNA"
RoarLions.com. Retrieved 2022-12-03.

Head coaching record

College

References

External links

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Middle Tennessee profile
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