Aaron Best

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Aaron Best
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Eastern Washington
Conference Big Sky
Record52–42
Biographical details
Born (1978-01-27) January 27, 1978 (age 47)
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Playing career
1996–1999 Eastern Washington
Position(s) Center, long snapper
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000 Eastern Washington (SA)
2001Eastern Washington (GA)
2002–2006Eastern Washington (OL)
2007 Toronto Argonauts (OL)
2008–2016Eastern Washington (OC/OL)
2017–presentEastern Washington
Head coaching record
Overall52–42
Tournaments4–3 (NCAA D-I playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 Big Sky (2018)
Awards
Big Sky Coach of the Year (2018)

Aaron Best (born January 27, 1978) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head coach at Eastern Washington University, his alma mater, promoted from offensive coordinator in January 2017.

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Playing career

Best graduated in 1996 from Curtis Senior High School in Tacoma, Washington, where he had a 3.75 grade point average. He was a co-captain his senior season as Curtis won the State 3A football championship.

Best spent four years at Eastern Washington as a long snapper and center. He started 22 straight games as a junior and senior, earning First Team All-Big Sky Conference and Honorable Mention All-American honors.

Coaching career

From 2000 to 2001, Best served as a student/graduate assistant at Eastern Washington. From 2002 to 2006, Best served as the offensive line coach, during which time he helped develop 2005 NFL draft selection Michael Roos, who was taken in the second round by the Tennessee Titans.

In 2007, Best became the offensive line coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The next year in 2008, Best returned to EWU as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach under new head coach Beau Baldwin. Best was part of the coaching staff in 2010, when the Eagles won the FCS national championship.

When Baldwin left after the 2016 season to become the offensive coordinator at California, Best was named co-interim head coach on January 16, 2017. Four days later, Best was promoted to head coach. [1]

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs TSN#Coaches°
Eastern Washington Eagles (Big Sky Conference)(2017–present)
2017 Eastern Washington 7–46–2T–3rd2122
2018 Eastern Washington 12–37–1T–1stL NCAA Division I Championship 22
2019 Eastern Washington 7–56–2T–3rd
2020–21 Eastern Washington 5–25–12ndL NCAA Division I First Round 1011
2021 Eastern Washington 10–36–2T–3rdL NCAA Division I Second Round 79
2022 Eastern Washington 3–82–6T–8th
2023 Eastern Washington 4–73–5T–9th
2024 Eastern Washington 4–83–5T–6th
2025 Eastern Washington 0–20–0
Eastern Washington:52–4238–24
Total:52–42
      National championship        Conference title        Conference division title or championship game berth

References

  1. ↑ "Aaron Best named head coach at Eastern Washington". USA TODAY . June 21, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
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