Football Support Staff

Beau Trahan

Quarterback Coach

FIFTH YEAR

Beau Trahan enters his fifth season as a member of The University of Tulsa football coaching staff, joining the Golden Hurricane in January 2016 . Trahan coaches the Tulsa quarterbacks .

In his first season, Trahan coached Dane Evans, who became the school’s career leader for passing yards, completions, attempts, 300-yard passing games, total offense and TD passes . Evans threw for 3,348 yards and 32 touchdowns during the 2016 season under Trahan’s tutelage, thus helping the Hurricane post a 10-3 record and win the Miami Beach Bowl that year . It was also an offense that set an NCAA record by becoming the first FBS/DI school to have a 3,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard rushers and two 1,000-yard receivers in the same season .

Trahan tutored freshman quarterback starters in two consecutive seasons, 2017 and 2018 . In the 2018 campaign, red-shirt freshman Seth Boomer showed steady progress by completing 61 .2-percent of his passes for 945 yards, seven TDs and two interceptions in Tulsa’s final five games .

Last year, junior Zach Smith threw for 3,279 yards and 19 touchdowns with a 131 .97 efficiency rating after sitting out a transfer year in 2018 .

Before coming to Tulsa, Trahan spent eight years at Baylor University . He spent his final two seasons as the Bears’ assistant athletic director in charge of high school relations and coordinator of recruiting for football . Before that, Trahan served as Baylor’s director of football operations for three seasons and previously was the director of high school relations for three years .

A four-year letterman at the University of Texas (1999-2002), Trahan began his collegiate playing career as a quarterback and then moved to safety . He returned to the quarterback position in 2001 and 2002 . Trahan served as a team captain during his senior season of 2002 .

Following his playing career, Trahan launched his collegiate coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant on the defensive side of the ball at Texas . He assisted with coaching the defensive backs and special teams . From UT, Trahan joined the coaching staff at the University of Houston in 2004 as an offensive graduate assistant coach, coaching under Philip Montgomery . He coached tight ends for the Cougars and assisted with coaching the special teams .

From 2005-08, Trahan was an assistant coach at Dickinson (Texas) High School, where he coached the quarterbacks and served as co-offensive coordinator under his father, legendary Warren “Bull” Trahan .

Trahan received his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Texas in 2002 . He and his wife, Lauren, have two daughters: Abigail and Anne .

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