Brent Pease, a former National Football League quarterback, assistant coach for a NCAA Division I-AA national championship team and coach of the I-AA Player of the Year, begins his third season as Baylor's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after working in the same position on coach Guy Morriss' Kentucky staff. Despite starting three different quarterbacks in 2004, Baylor again broke the school's single-season mark for completion percentage (.595) and established a new standard for total completions with 235. The 2004 Bears threw for 2,342 yards, the fifth-highest one-year total in school history, and improved their total offense average (311.8 ypg) by more than 30 yards per game over their 2003 output. Under Pease's guidance, the 2003 Baylor offense produced the program's first 1,000-yard rusher since 1995 (and just the sixth ever) in running back Rashad Armstrong, who earned All-Big 12 honors after rushing for 1,074 yards. The Bears' signal callers, meanwhile, combined to complete 56.7 percent of their passes on the year, at the time a single-season school record. Following the season, Pease served as Morriss' offensive assistant coach in the annual Blue-Gray All-Star Classic. At Kentucky, Pease tutored second-team All-Southeastern Conference quarterback Jared Lorenzen, who led a Wildcat offense that averaged a league-leading 32.1 points a game in 2002. Another of the Wildcats' offensive threats during Pease's tenure was the SEC's leading rusher, Artose Pinner, who earned first-team all-conference and league Offensive Player of the Year honors. Pinner was selected in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Pease was the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at Northern Arizona University for two seasons, helping the Lumberjacks advance to the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. He coached quarterback Travis Brown, who was MVP of the 1999 Blue-Gray Game. During the 2000 season, NAU running back Marcus King rushed for 1,474 yards and 13 touchdowns. Pease coached at his alma mater, the University of Montana, from 1991-98. He was the offensive coordinator the last three seasons and also coached the quarterbacks (1994-98), running backs (1991-98) and wide receivers (1991-94). With generous assistance from Pease's play-calling ability, Montana was a fixture in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs each of his last six seasons. The Grizzlies won the 1995 national I-AA championship, finished as runner-up in 1996 and were semi-finalists in 1994. Montana rolled up 185 points, 46.3 per game, in the four playoff games en route to the 1995 title. Pease's offensive unit generated 191 points, 47.8 per game, in the 1996 playoff series. Pease's quarterback in 1995, David Dickenson, won the Walter Payton Award as the Division I-AA National Player of the Year and was the Big Sky Conference's MVP from 1993-95. Dickenson's successor, Brian Ah Yat, was a three-year Walter Payton Award finalist and played in the Hula Bowl. Montana quarterbacks won the league's Offensive Player of the Year award five times in Pease's eight seasons at the school. He also coached two All-America wide receivers. Pease is a 1990 graduate of the University of Montana. After two seasons at Walla Walla (Wash.) Community College, he played quarterback for the Grizzlies in 1985-86. Pease led the nation in total offense in 1986 and set nine school records during a standout career. After college, Pease was drafted by the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and played two years for the Houston Oilers (1987-88), where one of his teammates during the Oilers' two-year playoff run was former Baylor standout quarterback Cody Carlson. He also has playing experience in the Canadian Football League, the World League of American Football and the Arena Football League. In 1991, he was the first player selected in the inaugural WLAF draft by the Birmingham Fire. A native of Mountain Home, Idaho, Pease and his wife, Paula, have a daughter, Halle, and a son, Karsten. A native of Mountain Home, Idaho, Pease and his wife, Paula, have a daughter, Halle, and a son, Karsten.
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