Brendan Bognar enters the first season of his third stint at Samford. He is responsible for coaching the team’s quarterbacks and is also the recruiting coordinator.
Bognar returns to Samford after spending the past two seasons at UCF as an offensive analyst and assistant Quarterback Coach. He helped the Knights to back-to-back top 10 finishes in total offense in 2022 and 2023. In 2023 he helped the Knights finish 2nd in the Big 12 in total offense and a berth in the Gasparilla Bowl. In 2022 he helped the Knights to nine wins and berths in the American Athletic Conference title game and the Military Bowl in 2022.
Bognar spent the 2021 campaign as a graduate assistant coach at Troy, working with the Trojans’ quarterbacks who threw for 238.7 yards per game. He also spent several months as inside receivers and tight ends coach at Samford in the spring of 2022, after working at Samford in 2020 as the lead offensive analyst and quarterbacks coach for an offense that averaged 40.3 points per game.
Bognar played quarterback at Murray State, coming to the Racers as a walk-on quarterback and eventually earning a scholarship. He was a team captain.
From St. Louis, Missouri, he graduated from Westminster Christian Academy in Town and Country, Missouri, throwing for 2,987 yards and 38 TDs as a senior, earning first-team all-conference and all-district recognition and competing in basketball.
He graduated from Murray State with a degree in public relations.
